MURDER PLOT SUSPECT SLIPS ELECTRONIC LEASH

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, March 21, 1993                   TAG: 9303210183
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
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MURDER PLOT SUSPECT SLIPS ELECTRONIC LEASH
The FBI is conducting a nationwide hunt for a Virginia torture-and-murder plot suspect who ran away just before last weekend's blizzard while free under an electronic house-arrest program in a Russell County motel.
George Boyd Stone should be considered armed and dangerous, FBI spokesman Wilber E. Garrett Jr. said Friday. Anyone seeing him should call police, Garrett said. He was still at large Saturday, the FBI said.
"Do not approach this individual for any reason whatsoever," Garrett said.
He described Stone as a former Naval officer and expert marksman who may be something of a survivalist.
Stone led a peaceful life on the Eastern Shore until charged last fall in Southwest Virginia with plotting to kidnap and kill a man.
The case also represents a rare instance, officials said, of a suspect running away while under electronic house arrest. The increasingly popular program is designed to save taxpayers money by keeping nonviolent suspects and criminals supervised but out of jail.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB