Police in Pennsylvania captured on Saturday a homicide suspect who had escaped from a county jail 9 days earlier.
Pennsylvania State Police took Michael C. Burham into custody round 6 p.m. after authorities obtained a tip he was in a wooded space close to Conowingo Township, Lt. Col. George Bivens stated Saturday throughout a information convention.
Burham, 34, can be put in an isolation cell on the Warren County Jail — the identical jail he broke out of July 6 — earlier than he’s transferred to a jail.
A married couple reported a “suspicious individual” to police round 4 p.m. Saturday after their canine alerted them to Burham’s presence close to the again of their property.
The couple drove out on a golf cart and requested Burham what he was doing there. The homicide suspect advised them he was tenting, in line with authorities.
“The owner of the property recognized him, got his wife back into the golf cart and drove away from there so that he could immediately contact us as Burham fled into the woods,” Col. Bivens stated on the press convention.
Police stated he appeared “tired and worn out” and was carrying his jail pants inside out when he was captured shortly after.
Burham broke out of the Warren County Jail by climbing up a bit of train tools and utilizing a string of mattress sheets to slip off the advanced’s roof.
He was being held on the jail on a $1 million bail associated to housebreaking, kidnapping and different expenses.
Burham is a suspect within the demise of 34-year-old Kala Hodgkin in New York, who was discovered shot lifeless in her dwelling on May 11.
Burham had an energetic arrest warrant for rape on the time of Hodgkin’s killing. He has not been charged within the case at the moment.
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