A fugitive who escaped an Oklahoma prison in 1981 was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service after investigators found him living under an alias in Houston.

Stephen Michael Paris, 58, escaped from the Jess Dunn Correctional Center in Muskogee when he was 22 years old. U.S. Marshals from Oklahoma City and Houston arrested him Thursday at a Houston office.

Paris had made the Oklahoma Department of Corrections "Most Wanted" list, the Marshals Service reports.

U.S. Marshals investigators took on the case about six weeks ago, and investigators discovered an obituary of Paris’s mother, which listed a son by the name Stephen Michael Chavez. Investigators tracked the name and found that Paris had been living and working under that alias in the Houston area. Paris was arrested without incident, and a fingerprint match confirmed his identity.