An Ohio prison inmate who escaped last week with another inmate was found dead. His body was discovered floating in the Ohio River in Kentucky on Sunday afternoon.
Escaped prisoner Bradley Gillespie was found dead in the Ohio River on Sunday. Gillespie escaped from the Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio last week.
The escaped inmate, Bradley Gillespie, is still at large. Gillespie is charged with murder, breaking and entering, theft, assault, and a number of other offenses.
Police in Kentucky say they've pulled the body of a convicted murderer from the Ohio River, days after he escaped last week from an Ohio prison with another inmate, who has since been taken into custody.
A weeklong search for an escaped Ohio prisoner has come to an end after police confirmed that a body found dead in a Kentucky river is most likely the fugitive Bradley Gillespie, per multiple reports.
The identity of the remains, believed to be those of Bradley Gillespie, 50, was preliminary. But the police in Henderson were confident the weeklong search was over.
Police in Kentucky say they've pulled the body of a convicted murderer from the Ohio River, days after he escaped last week from an Ohio prison with another inmate.