Adolphus HollingsworthFor 16 years after the death of his wife, Adolphus Hollingsworth remained a free man.
At some point last week, he temporarily became one again even after Chattanooga authorities touted his capture.
After the Amarillo (Texas) Police Department charged Hollingsworth on Wednesday in the long-unsolved Chattanooga slaying of Victoria Witherspoon Carr, Hollingsworth apparently was released from the Potter County Detention Center and traveled more than 1,200 miles to Rossford, Ohio, where authorities apprehended him again Saturday.
According to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service in Toledo, Ohio, that described his release from custody in Texas as a mistake, Hollingsworth, 44, is currently detained at the Wood County Jail awaiting extradition to Tennessee.
“It was a crazy chain of events,” said Deputy U.S. Marshal Chris Hodge.