Alleged Killer Recaptured! (as of 4 a.m. 22 June, 2009

Louisiana Manhunt Ends Escapee’s Run 6 Miles From Jail

Adapted from Times Picayune:

A footprint in a rural area near Covington High School put St. Tammany Parish deputies on the trail of accused killer Timothy Wayne Murray, the last of four inmates who escaped the parish jail Thursday.

Deputies found Murray at about 1 a.m. Sunday in a quarter-mile stretch of woods on Bennett Bridge Road north of Covington, about three miles west of Highway 25, St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain said. Murray had crossed about six miles of woods since his escape Thursday night.

The break-out had apparently been in the works for about a year and Murray and his co-conspirators "nearly starved themselves" so they could fit through a small opening in the maximum security wing and exploit a design flaw in the jail, Strain said.

Authorities said Murray and Jody L. Swafford, who still awaits trial and pleaded guilty to an unrelated charge of cocaine possession earlier this year, met Carl Glass Jr. while working on post-Hurricane Katrina debris-removal jobs in the Slidell area.

Glass let them stay in tents in the front yard of his white-frame house, bought debris-removal equipment for them and hired them for jobs because they said they had come to the area to help with rebuilding efforts, authorities and Glass family members said.

Glass was beaten and strangled in his home east of Slidell on April 8, 2006. Overturned furniture in the home suggested that the 6-foot-2, 230-pound victim fought against his attackers, but he was beaten so badly that family members could barely identify him, Amy Glass said. Blood covered the walls. The killers left bloody footprints outside.

On April 17, contractor Jody L. Swafford, 29, turned himself in to FBI agents in Tampa, Fla., and reportedly confessed to the killing. Six days later, Murray surrendered to sheriff's deputies in Vance County, N.C.



Inmate Busts Out ...Of a Perimeter Fence…

Adapted from Texas media:

Michael Shawn Littlejohn, 33, an inmate serving a 58-year sentence for armed robbery, escaped from Gaston Correctional Center Saturday morning. Littlejohn, climbed a perimeter fence at the minimum-security men's prison shortly before 8 a.m., Saturday according to Administrator M.L. Paysour.

Littlejohn is a black man standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing about 158 pounds. In 1994, Littlejohn was convicted in Lincoln County of armed robbery, larceny, assault with a deadly weapon on government officials or employees and escaping from jail, state correction records show. He previously served a year and four months in prison for Lincoln County convictions of felony breaking and entering and larceny.

His 58-year sentence began in April 1994, but he had been accepted to the state's Mutual Agreement Parole Program (MAPP) and had a projected release date of 2011. MAPP requires inmates to complete structured activities in order to win early release.

Littlejohn would have to serve the remainder of his original sentence if captured, and a judge could increase that sentence.


Short but to the point today. I'll be back with more missing miscreants ...once one of them escapes...