Authorities also accused him of abducting an older couple in Pennsylvania while trying to evade capture before his arrest in South Carolina.
More than 200 state, federal and local officers took part in the search for Burham, and up to $22,000 in reward money had been posted, Bivens said.ĭistrict Attorney Jason Schmidt, of Chautauqua County, New York, said in June that Burham was the prime suspect in the May 11 killing of Kala Hodgkin, 34, and a related arson in Jamestown, New York. He was convicted and sentenced to death, though Pennsylvania has a moratorium on executions. Eric Frein, of Canadensis, also described as a self-taught survivalist, was captured after a 48-day search. In September 2014 in Pennsylvania, a manhunt of more than a month and a half ensued after a gunman killed a state trooper and permanently disabled another in an ambush outside the Blooming Grove barracks. Burham encountered state troopers and attempted to hide, but authorities approached from behind and arrested him.īy 5:50 p.m., Burham - wearing jail-issued pants turned inside-out - was in custody. Saturday afternoon, authorities received the tip. Authorities warned while he was missing that he was considered armed and dangerous.Īround 4 p.m. George Bivens, the deputy commissioner of Operations for the Pennsylvania State Police, at a news conference.īurham has been in jail on $1 million bail and was charged with kidnapping, burglary and other counts. “He came out into the open and was spotted by an individual,” said Lt. He was found Saturday after authorities received a tip about a suspicious-looking person, they said. Michael Burham, 34, fled the Warren County jail in the late evening hours of July 6 by climbing on exercise equipment, going through a window and scaling down a rope fashioned from jail bedding, authorities have said. (AP) - Looking dirty, wet and “worn out” from living in the wilderness to evade arrest, a homicide suspect who used bed sheets to escape a northern Pennsylvania jail has been captured, authorities said.
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