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S. Indiana man convicted in killing freed from prison
Updated: Monday, 24 Sep 2012, 10:17 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 24 Sep 2012, 10:17 AM EDT
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A Bloomington man convicted of murdering and dismembering a woman in 1986 has been released from prison after serving less than half of his 60-year sentence.
Fifty-seven-year-old Robert E. Lee was released Saturday from the Branchville Correctional Facility and driven to a parole office in Bloomington.
Indiana Department of Correction spokeswoman Amy Lanum tells The Herald-Times Lee was immediately fitted with a GPS ankle bracelet so his whereabouts can be monitored. She says DOC officials then took Lee to a residence.
The DOC did not disclose that address, not even to local police.
Lee served 25 years for murdering 31-year-old Ellen Marks, whose head and hands were never found. He obtained early release by earning good-time credit and obtaining two vocational degrees and two college degrees behind bars.
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