Murderer Released in Secretive Deal Is Recaptured After Months on the Run
The manhunt for a convicted murderer who left a South Carolina prison under puzzling circumstances pressed on for more than two months with few developments. The reward for his capture kept growing, climbing to $60,000, as the authorities made repeated pleas for help. He was dangerous, they warned, and he could be anywhere.
Finally, in recent days, investigators received a promising tip: Their fugitive, Jeriod Price, was in New York. And on Wednesday, the authorities said, he was arrested at an apartment in the Bronx.
“Jeriod Price is no longer a wanted man,” Alan Wilson, the South Carolina attorney general, announced at a news conference. Mr. Price, who had served only 19 years of a 35-year prison sentence for a 2002 murder was back in custody, he said: “He will be returning to South Carolina very soon.”
The twist in Mr. Price’s case was that he did not escape. He was released in March under a secret order signed by a prominent judge who retired the next day.
Source: The New York Times
