Official describes surveillance footage of murder suspect's jail escape, saying the fugitive 'looked like a spider' as he made his getaway from the lock-up's rooftop recreational yard cage.
July 13, 2023, 2:32 PMJamestown Police Departmentand "self-taught survivalist," Michael Burham stretched into its seventh day Thursday in the northeast Pennsylvania woods, an official who viewed surveillance video of the jail escape said the fugitive "looked like a spider" as he quickly made his getaway from the lock-up's rooftop recreational yard cage.
Officials suspect Burham received assistance in the jailbreak and since being on the lam, authorities said. Warren County Commissioner Jeff Eggleston said he viewed a video of the escape and defended the response time of the jail staff, saying they marshaled a response within seconds of Burham's escape, but that the fugitive was too fast for them and got away by using bed sheets tied together to rappel from the jail's roof to the ground and flee.
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