Marie Dean Arrington

1. Lowell Correctional Institution
   Dates unknown

Marie Dean Arrington (August 8, 1933 – May 10, 2014) was an American criminal. In 1969, she became the second woman to be placed on the list of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Arrington was originally sentenced to death for the murder of Vivian Ritter, a legal secretary who worked in Leesburg, Florida. Ritter worked for public defender Bob Pierce, who had unsuccessfully represented Arrington's two children in felony charges. Arrington escaped from prison in 1969 while awaiting execution by cutting through a window screen and fleeing in her pajamas. After she was caught, she was sentenced in 1972 to 10 additional years for escape, but her death sentence was commuted to life in prison when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down capital punishment as unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia (1972). Arrington died on May 10, 2014, in Lowell Correctional Institution in Marion County, Florida, the same institution from which she escaped. She was 80 years old.