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Killer who escaped Tennessee prison captured after week-long manhunt

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Jacob Allen Morley was arrested in Carroll County, Missouri, after breaking out of the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville on October 25. Law enforcement agencies coordinated across state lines to locate Morley using automated license plate readers after receiving a lead from Illinois. Officers took him into custody without incident and recovered three stolen firearms from his truck. Morley had originally been imprisoned for the fatal 2022 shooting of his coworker, Cody Birchfield.

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US authorities have recaptured a convicted murderer who escaped a Tennessee prison more than a week ago.

Jacob Allen Morley, 28, was serving a life sentence over the killing of his colleague in 2022, when he escaped from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, about 90 miles (145 km) north of Memphis.

The Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) said security footage showed Morley, wearing his prison uniform, breaching the prison fence around 11:30pm on 25 October, and later stealing a vehicle from a nearby farm.

On Wednesday the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) announced Morley was in custody after an operation that involved local, state and federal agencies.

In a statement, the TBI said authorities had received a tip that Morley was hiding on an Illinois property, from which a truck had also been stolen.

The truck's licence plate was then tracked through automatic plate-reader technology, travelling through Missouri, where local authorities were dispatched to follow.

Morley was apprehended by Missouri State Highway Patrol "without incident" in Carroll County at 11:34am local time on Tuesday. Three firearms that…

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