Escaped inmate captured after over a week on the run
Fugitive Jacob Allen Morley is in custody near Kansas City, Missouri. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
An escaped fugitive who has been on the run for more than a week after escaping prison, has been recaptured.
What we know:
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Jacob Morley was apprehended nearly 500 miles away in Missouri, near Kansas City.
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Jacob Allen Morley, 28, was serving a life sentence for the 2022 murder of Cody Birchfield when he escaped from a Tennessee prison Sunday, according to correction officials. (Tennessee Department of Correction)
The backstory:
Morley, 28, was serving a life sentence at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tennessee for killing a co-worker four years ago. He escaped on Oct. 25, after slipping through a fence on the perimeter of the prison.
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He was later spotted in a stolen truck that was recovered about 120 miles away in Illinois.
What they're saying:
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation posted the update to social media, thanking their law enforcement partners for helping bring the search to a successful conclusion.
The Source: This story was written with information provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and The Associated Press. This story was reported from Orlando.