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Washington: $260,000 to Family of Woman Killed By Escaped Prisoner

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Immunity/Liability, Parole Liability, Murder by Parolees. Location: Washington.

On November 5, 1991, the State of Washington agreed to pay $260,000 to the family of a woman who was kidnapped and murdered by an escaped work release prisoner.

In 1988, while serving a 12-year sentence for two separate sexual assaults, Eugene R. Kane, Jr. walked away from a …

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