Robert Garrow was a serial killer in NY State. He murdered four people in July 1973, including a young woman whom he kidnapped, and repeatedly raped before killing, and a high school-aged camper in the Adirondacks a few days later. He was on the run for 12 days, but was tracked down, shot in the foot, arm, and back by a Conservation Officer in the Adirondacks, then claimed he was paralyzed because of it. He was found guilty and sentenced to 25 years to life, and sent to Clinton Correctional Facility (Dannemora).
Garrow repeatedly asked for transfer to the Elderly and Handicapped Unit (minimum security) within the medium-security Fishkill Correctional Facility downstate. Doctors confirmed his paralysis, and he was eventually transferred there. Of course Garrow wasn't really paralyzed, and Garrow's son Danny would come to visit his father, and bring him tubs of fried chicken. We were told that the .32 caliber pistol he escaped with, had been broken down, and the parts brought in on various visits, but it's also been reported that his son brought the whole weapon in on one visit. Garrow escaped on September 8th, 1978, by scaling a fifteen foot fence to escape the prison grounds. But again, he was tracked down, shot and killed on September 11, 1978. When I worked at Auburn Prison, his son Danny Garrow was doing time for aiding in his father's escape. I can't remember what his sentence was, but he was a scruffy-looking, long-haired blonde with a beard and mustache. I was at Auburn from 1980-83 before transferring to a prison closer to home. Retired in 2003.
