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Tennessee inmate who escaped prison recaptured in Missouri, officials say
Tennessee officials said Jacob Morley, serving life for a 2022 killing, was recaptured in Missouri more than a week after leaving a Lake County prison.
- New headline Was: “Escaped Tennessee inmate convicted of co-worker's murder is recaptured, officials say”
- Our desk filed its story
Based on reporting by AP
A Tennessee inmate serving a life sentence for murder was recaptured Tuesday in Missouri after more than a week at large, authorities said1.
Jacob Morley, 28, had been held at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, in the state's far northwest, when staff found him missing about 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 251.
Authorities said he left through a perimeter fence in prison clothing and that video showed him taking a truck from a farm about two miles away; the vehicle was later found abandoned in Marion, Illinois1.
Morley was serving life for the 2022 killing of co-worker Cody Birchfield in Carter County; officials said Birchfield's body was found under Morley's home and that Morley was later convicted of first-degree murder and related charges1.
The Associated Press said the Tennessee Department of Correction did not immediately comment on the recapture1.
The department had previously described a multi-agency search after the escape and listed Morley as dangerous; details of the Missouri arrest were not in the Tuesday wire copy1.
