Idaho man who killed game wardens due for release
OWYHEE COUNTY, Idaho A back country mountain man who killed two Idaho game wardens will be released from prison Sunday. Claude Dallas received a sentence of 30 years in prison after jurors found him guilty of two counts of voluntary manslaughter in 1982. Good behavior earned him an eight-year sentence reduction.
Dallas gunned down two officers from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game who'd entered his camp during a poaching investigation. After wounding the men with his handgun, he shot each of them in the head with a rifle.
Dallas gained folk-legend status in 1986 when he escaped from prison and hid out for nearly a year. He was acquitted of escape charges after testifying that guards threatened his life.
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