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Here’s an update on the Richard Lee McNair saga:

McNair, the former US Air Force sergeant, prison escape artist — and the subject of several TV documentaries — is no longer at ADX the Supermax in Florence, Colorado.

McNair shot and killed a trucker in cold blood in North Dakota in 1987. The man is best known — not for the brutal murder — but for his three escapes — from a jail, a state penitentiary and a federal penitentiary.

In his last escape in April 2006, McNair shipped himself to freedom from a pen in Pollock, Louisiana, by hiding in a crate of old mailbags.

For the past 14 years, McNair has been at the Supermax — the “Alcatraz of the Rockies” — home of the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, Doctor Death, El Chapo, etc, etc. He was sent to the Supermax after being captured by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Campbellton, New Brunswick in October 2007.

Richard Lee McNair walked out of the Supermax on Wednesday, November 2, 2022 — but he didn’t go far. Wearing handcuffs and leg irons, the convicted killer went straight to a ‘regular’ federal prison close by.

It’s not known if McNair will ever be released, or how long he will remain in a federal pen. That’s up to the Parole Board in North Dakota … and of course, lawyers.

McNair turned 64 in December 2022.