Convicted double murderer John V. Carothers, who was apprehended in Florida last month after fleeing parole in Seattle, will return to Washington state today.
The 68-year-old man, convicted for the 1971 murders of a Sequim-area couple, is being extradited from Florida to Washington Corrections Center in Shelton while he awaits a parole hearing, Washington State Department of Corrections spokeswoman Linda Bonazza said Wednesday.
Carothers will be served with Corrections violations on Friday, and a parole hearing will be held within 30 days, Bonazza said.
U.S. marshals found Carothers hiding in a closet of his ex-wife’s home in DeLand, Fla., on Nov. 17, one week after he walked out on his parole from Seattle, where he was living in a group transitional home.
After serving 32 years of a life sentence in prison, Carothers was released on parole in June and moved to the Seattle halfway house.
Carothers was found guilty of the shooting deaths of Ronald and Wanda Buck in their home west of Sequim on Sept. 3, 1971, during a random robbery.