Ohio inmate who escaped prison found dead after boater finds body floating in river: police

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[nickcarraway]

Bradley Gillespie, 50, was convicted of murder and had been in prison since 2016 before he escaped

The body of an inmate who escaped from an Ohio prison nearly five days ago was found floating in the Ohio River on Sunday afternoon.

Bradley Gillespie, 50, had been imprisoned since 2016 for murder before he and James Lee, 47, broke out of the Allen Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio, last Tuesday.

Lee, who was handed down a prison sentence in 2021 for burglary and safecracking, was captured in Kentucky on Wednesday, following a police pursuit of a stolen car both men were suspected to be in. The vehicle ultimately crashed, and both inmates fled the scene on foot. Lee was arrested on the scene, while Gillespie remained at large.

[frank ballenger]

Floating body on a terrestrial river.

Not the Lake of Fire.

[dfwgator]

Not the Lake of Fire.

The Cuyahoga River?

[Fish Speaker]

Won’t have to pay to keep him in jail any longer — win/win

[frank ballenger]

I really dislike the wimpy cliche from law enforcement at press conferences (real and TV ones):
“We caught him and he’s going away for a long time.”

Almost never true. They have shifty defense lawyers to keep evidence and confessions and even dna from being part of evidence the jury gets. And ACLU and BLM types who champion their cause. And Soros or Dem appointed judges to reduce their sentences.

One type: reported sexual assaults
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system

of 1000 sexual assaults, 995 perpetrators will walk free. Out of every 1,000 rapes, 310 are reported to the police, 57 reports lead to arrest, 13 cases get referred to prosecutors, 7 cases will lead to a felony conviction, 6 rapists will be incarcerated.

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Office of Justice Programs
The average time served by state prisoners released in 2018, from their date of initial admission to their date of initial release, was 2.7 years. The median amount of time served (the middle value in the range of time served, with 50% of offenders serving more and 50% serving less) was 1.3 years (figure 1).

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In 2019, 2,231 inmates escaped from state or federal prisons in the United States.

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In 1994 Arthur Rudy Martinez, an inmate serving a life sentence after being convicted of numerous rapes and robberies, escaped from a Washington State prison and eluded capture for nearly two decades.

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Have any death row inmates escaped?
A fugitive who successfully fled death row was finally recaptured by authorities last week after spending 42 years in hiding. Vo Van Ba, a death row inmate, broke out of prison in October 1980 while awaiting his execution, after being convicted of rape and murder in 1977.

[gundog]

Dead, or murdered? Sometimes jail is a safe haven from retribution.

A room-mate and I...and the dog (you xan get away with that late at night) were in a laundromat, doing laundry. An apparently homeless guy came in, and was washing his clothes in a sink. Seemed nice enough. A couple of weeks later, we saw his picture on the front page of the newspaper. He was an escaped prisoner, and had turned up in a trash bag, down by the river.

[frank ballenger]

In the movie Rude Awakening with Cheech Martin, two hippies isolated from civilization for years try to accept their old friends who are now yuppies. Some things they can’t understand.

Line “The river’s on fire.” Actually was true.

[PROCON]

No swimming lessons in prison, huh?

[Libloather]

Much worse than living in a van down by the river.

[minnesota_bound]

#6 Why did you put him in a trash bag?.... : )

[Vendome]

His name was Bob.

His Pronouns: were/was/dead...

[joethedrummer]

He could cut it in prison…. But the guy just couldn’t swim…

[GingisK]

The headline raises the possibility that the boater killed him.