The “20-year fugitive and renowned saloon poet captured recently in Chicago, now says he wants to take a lie detector test to prove that he did not commit the murder for which he is serving a life sentence,” reports Donovan Slack in a Boston Globe story. As formerly reported on MobyLives, 20 years after he walked away from a minimum security prison outside of Boston, Norman A. Porter Jr., 65, was captured in Chicago, where he was a popular poet known as Jacob ”J.J.” Jameson. He had served 25 years for murdering an employee of a clothing store in a botched hold-up attempt, a crime to which he had confessed the day after he was first captured. He was also subsequently charged with murdering a guard during an earlier escape attempt. Now, he says “he wants to meet with friends and relatives of the victim, John ‘Jackie’ Pigott, to apologize for his role in the botched robbery that ended Pigott’s life,” reports Slack. Says Pigott’s fiancé,”I want him to be able to look me in the eye and say, ‘I swear I didn’t do it.’ ‘My eyes have brought up four kids; I can tell when you’re lying.”