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Authorities are trying to piece together how an escaped Tennessee inmate evaded capture for 10 days
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Authorities are still trying to piece together how a convicted murderer in Tennessee evaded capture for more than a week. Jacob Morley escaped in late October and was apprehended on Tuesday. He was found hundreds of miles away near Kansas City, Missouri.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Jacob Morley, the convicted murderer who escaped from Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, is now in custody, according to the TBI on Tuesday morning. TBI said Morley was taken into custody near Kansas City, Missouri.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WJHL) — Escaped inmate from Tennessee Jacob Morley has been apprehended. According to an update Tuesday afternoon from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), Morley was taken into custody near Kansas City, Missouri.
More than a week after Jacob Morley, a convicted killer, escaped prison in West Tennessee, authorities announced he had been tracked down in another state.
Jacob Allen Morley, 28, serving life for murder, was captured near Kansas City on Nov. 3, 2026 after a 9-day manhunt following his Tennessee prison escape.
A man convicted of murder who escaped from a Tennessee prison was recaptured on Tuesday in Missouri after more than a week on the run, authorities said. Jacob Morley, who was serving a life sentence for killing a co-worker four years ago, was apprehended outside of Kansas City, Missouri, before midd…
By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A convicted murderer who escaped a Tennessee jail was apprehended and brought back into custody, officials said –– nine days after he breached the prison fence and drove off in a stolen truck.
Jacob Morley was serving a life sentence at the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tennessee when he escaped by slipping through a fence on the property.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KBSI) – A Tennessee inmate who escaped from prison and was later spotted in Southern Illinois has been taken into custody near Kansas City, Missouri. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation confirmed Tuesday that fugitive Jacob Allen Morley had been captured.
Jacob Morley, serving a life sentence for killing a co-worker, slipped through a prison fence last week A man convicted of murder who escaped from a Tennessee prison was recaptured on Tuesday in Missouri after more than a week on the run, authorities said.
A convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison has been captured in Missouri after his vehicle became stuck off a road. Authorities tracked the vehicle using Flock and a police helicopter before a trooper arrested him. The arrest happened at about 11:34 a.m.
Jacob Morley escaped from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tennessee's far northwestern corner on Oct. 25, after he slipped through a fence in his prison clothes.
Police recaptured an escaped Tennessee inmate in Missouri on Tuesday after the convicted murderer spent more than a week on the run. Jacob Morley escaped the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, on Oct. 25. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation apprehended Morley around 11:30 a.
Jacob Morley, 28, escaped from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tennessee’s far northwestern corner on Oct. 25, after he slipped through a fence in his prison clothes.
