Oct. 27, 2026
URGENT MANHUNT: Convicted Murderer On The Loose In Tennessee
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RSS Feed Convicted murderer, 28-year-old Jacob Morley, is on the run after escaping from the Tennessee Department of Corrections late Sunday evening. Morley was first noticed missing just before midnight, when surveillance footage later showed him “breaching” the prison fence and about an hour later stealing a white truck 2 miles from the prison. Authorities are warning residents in Tennessee and neighboring Kentucky and Missouri that Morley should be considered dangerous and should not be confronted.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, October 27th, and the same Department of Correction that botched the Krista Pike execution, well, they are facing another public embarrassment. They just let a convicted murderer escape. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, An Escape Anytime. Robes is alarming. It's disturbing. It calls for investigation. But Robes, when you add into it that there's a guy on the loose who's never supposed to get out of prison because he's a murderer, that raises the stakes.
00:00:36
Speaker 2: That's right. We're talking about 28-year-old convicted first-degree murderer Jacob Morley. And he is serving a life sentence. And he seemingly just casually escaped this Tennessee Department of Corrections prison through a fence. They haven't really explained how he made it through the fence. The word was he breached the perimeter fence, but they didn't go into any detail as to how he was able to breach this fence in a prison uniform.
00:01:13
Speaker 1: Sounds easy.
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Speaker 2: Sounds pretty easy. He did it without anyone noticing it. They did the 11.30 p.m. inmate check that they do each night, and they realized... They were one short.
00:01:23
Speaker 1: What was the word they said? Slipped or breached?
00:01:26
Speaker 2: Breached.
00:01:26
Speaker 1: They breached.
00:01:27
Speaker 2: He breached the perimeter fence. Now, actually, the area that this prison sits is interesting. This is in the northwest corner of the state of Tennessee. It's near the Missouri border. It's near the Kentucky border. And it's 100 miles north of Memphis. You know this area pretty well.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty big rut row. You got options now. Now you need to coordinate with several other agencies and several other states. Robes, this is a mess. And you're talking about a guy who's potentially, well, certainly dangerous. Don't know if he's armed yet. But this is a guy who, Robes, has nothing to lose.
00:02:05
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
00:02:05
Speaker 1: Nothing to lose.
00:02:06
Speaker 2: And that is what is so frightening. Obviously, Tennessee officials are trying to keep folks in the loop. But yes, it's not just Tennessee. It could be Kentucky. It could be Missouri. It could be a lot of places because he has a vehicle. That's right. This is pretty remarkable. So yes. They say they have security footage showing him breaching the fence, so I guess they know how he got through the fence. I have not seen that, looked for that everywhere. What we do have is video from around 1 a.m., so a short time later, you see him stealing a white 2008 Ford F-350, and this vehicle was about two miles from the prison. It's a commercial truck. It's got equipment in the back. This isn't some nondescript truck. This is a pretty technical and specific looking truck.
00:02:59
Speaker 1: You can't miss it. You don't need to look at the tags on this. It doesn't look like anything else out there. This is an unmistakable. He picked a big target of a truck.
00:03:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a landscaping truck.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: You can't miss what this truck is and they can't find him. I think the timing works out, right? This video was around one in the morning. They discovered him. So if he, I don't know, walking for about two miles.
00:03:19
Speaker 2: Two miles he had to walk somehow undetected. And then, yes, at 1 a.m., they have him stealing this truck. And then at 1.18 a.m., this is the last bit of video evidence that we know of, they found more surveillance video of that very truck driving right past the Hornbeak Fire Department, which is about 15 miles from the prison. So he made pretty good time. 11.30 p.m., they realize he's missing. At 1 a.m., they see him stealing this truck. And at 118, he's flying past the fire department 15 miles from prison. Point being, this dude could be anywhere right now.
00:03:55
Speaker 1: I wonder, we talk about these flock cams and whatnot that people are railing against, but this is the type of thing it's supposed to catch. There's got to be other video. He passed something somewhere. You can't avoid being. But also, if you're out in the middle of nowhere in a rural area, you might not have as many of these cameras out. They don't exactly put prisons in the middle of a, downtown area.
00:04:16
Speaker 2: No, they don't.
00:04:18
Speaker 1: So, but Rose, to think he is rolling. And they noticed it at 1130 that he was gone, right?
00:04:25
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:04:26
Speaker 1: They noticed. How quickly did they get their hands on that video at one o'clock? I wonder. I'm saying, how much of a heads up did he have where he was literally in a vehicle before they even knew to be looking for him in a vehicle?
00:04:38
Speaker 2: Right, because then they had to start looking at all the surveillance cameras around the area to see if any of those cameras captured him or And so, yes, I would imagine that would have taken some time tracking down all these different security cameras around the area. Again, this was two miles from the prison facility.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: It could be hundreds of miles away by now.
00:05:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely. So what have they done? Well, they have put Jacob Morley on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list.
00:05:08
Speaker 1: Is he number one?
00:05:10
Speaker 2: I don't know, but the reward seemed a little paltry, $ 2, 500. Yeah.
00:05:14
Speaker 1: President Trump is offering more for turning in voter fraud.
00:05:18
Speaker 2: He's offering a million bucks. We're getting $ 5, 000 if the Republicans win. Just $ 2, 500 for the murderer. $ 2, 500 for information leading to his arrest.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: I'm not going to risk it.
00:05:28
Speaker 2: I thought that was a very small amount for somebody who, yes, as we pointed out, has nothing to lose. The Tennessee Department of Corrections also made this very clear. Quote, do not attempt to apprehend this fugitive. They're urging people, if you see him, if you see the car, to call 911. And we say, if you see him. He's a big guy. He's 5'11. I mean, he's not that tall, but he's 240 pounds. He's got a big beard from what I could see in the surveillance cameras.
00:06:08
Speaker 1: Big boy. I'm 6'1, 62. I mean, he's almost got 100 pounds on me. We're about the same height.
00:06:15
Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly.
00:06:16
Speaker 1: Big boy.
00:06:17
Speaker 2: Big boy. He was in a prison uniform. I'm sure he's shed that by now. But again, well, he's got a pretty distinctive beard, green eyes. And yes, his picture is plastered everywhere in those states. But let's talk about why Jacob Morley was in prison in the first place. He was convicted of first degree murder for the killing of 34-year-old Cody Birchfield, who reportedly was his coworker. I was trying to do some research on this trial, but his own girlfriend, Jacob Morley's own girlfriend, testified against him, saying that he literally told her he effing killed him. Gross.
00:06:51
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this part of it. What's she feeling right now?
00:06:55
Speaker 2: Exactly. She testified against him last year. I would imagine he's pretty upset about that. But this 34-year-old Cody Birchfield, who left behind a son and a loving family, I read his obituary and just hurt my heart because we, again, we talk about oftentimes the criminals, but the victims here, his family must also be feeling so much right now. He was reported missing in February of 2022, and it wasn't until.
00:07:22
Speaker 2: They went to go to Morley's home because, yes, he was the last person seen with Cody Birchfield. And police described it as something violent happened here. So when Morley came back home seeing that cops are at his house, he takes off. and leads them on a massive high-speed chase all the way to the North Carolina border. They were able to stop him because they called ahead to the North Carolina police and said, hey, can you put some tacks in the road? And literally burst his tires. That's the only way they got him. So he was fleeing the arrest itself. He clearly has a mode of operation. Yeah.
00:08:00
Speaker 1: Slippery fella, ain't he?
00:08:01
Speaker 2: He certainly is.
00:08:02
Speaker 1: Isn't one of his, I think, one of the things he was convicted of was evading police or.
00:08:06
Speaker 2: Something like that? buried under his home weeks later. So now they've got all the evidence they need in addition to, yes, his own girlfriend testifying against him. So he was convicted not only of first degree murder, he was also convicted of aggravated burglary, evidence tampering, as you mentioned, evading arrest and vandalism. So this guy was going away and he just started his sentence last year. So to your point, He had nothing to lose.
00:08:47
Speaker 1: Ancy, fella, he just couldn't even make it a year. I got to get out of here.
00:08:50
Speaker 2: Doesn't like prison, apparently.
00:08:52
Speaker 1: And look, we see a lot of, we've covered a lot of executions and whatnot. Guy's been on death row for 30, 40 years. This is a really young guy.
00:09:04
Speaker 2: What, 26, 28? 28.
00:09:05
Speaker 1: That's a long time he's looking forward to being in prison. Bro, this is a guy who has nothing to lose. They might have a tough time apprehending this guy. Not just finding him, but once they do. he's gonna put up a fight.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: This is the scariest situation for anyone living in any of those states that border the, and again, we don't know how far away he got, because he was driving in the middle of the night. If he was driving in dark, rural streets, areas you aren't gonna have a lot of cameras, not sure how they're gonna find this guy, and obviously, you would think he'd be smart enough to ditch the truck at a certain point, because as we pointed out, a pretty distinctive truck, but they haven't found the vehicle yet. So they have no idea where this guy is.
00:09:46
Speaker 1: I wonder if they know how much gas was in the tank.
00:09:50
Speaker 2: Maybe. I wonder. Maybe. That's a good point. The landscaping company might know exactly how much. Maybe they actually log it.
00:09:56
Speaker 1: Don't they usually low jack a lot of these things? most vehicles these days you can track down. I can see where our Bronco is right now. With an app on my phone. Do they not know where this vehicle is?
00:10:07
Speaker 2: You know what though, babe? It's a 2008. Uh-oh. Never mind.
00:10:09
Speaker 1: It's a 2008 model.
00:10:10
Speaker 2: Forget everything I just said. This is like almost a 20-year-old truck. So thinking they don't probably have the latest technology on it.
00:10:19
Speaker 1: And it's beat the hell up. It's not a vehicle you would normally know. It's like a construction vehicle. Almost you just, you don't pay attention to it. Even though it's big and has a distinct look, it doesn't stand out to you. It just goes by like another car. Concrete mixing truck or a construction truck. You just don't think about it.
00:10:36
Speaker 2: Some landscaping truck flying by you on a country road. Who's going to even look twice?
00:10:41
Speaker 1: But now.
00:10:42
Speaker 2: Well, authorities are hoping somebody will. When we come back, though, you alluded to it at the beginning of the episode. This has been a hell of a month for the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Not only did Krista Pike's debacle happen less than 30 days ago, there was another inmate that escaped this week. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. Not a good time to be working at the Tennessee Department of Corrections. They've had a lot of tough headlines.
00:11:19
Speaker 1: No, it's not a good time to be on death row in Tennessee.
00:11:24
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
00:11:25
Speaker 1: But it might be a good time to be at this Tiptonville prison because apparently the The fence doesn't really hold up, and you can just breach it and walk out. There will be keys waiting for you in a car not too far away.
00:11:39
Speaker 2: Apparently, Jacob Morley knew exactly how to get out. Just go under the fence and walk two miles and find a car that you can steal that's right there, right for the picking.
00:11:49
Speaker 1: You kind of just made a point there, babe, how easy it was. It has to be a part of the investigation to get help of some kind.
00:11:57
Speaker 2: That will be something, obviously, they will be looking into. But also, you don't even have to look that far because six days ago, 63-year-old Gregory Redden escaped from the Tenancy Department of Corrections. How did he do it? He has apparently a weekly treatment at the Nashville General Hospital. Here's how police say he was. I was like, how do you leave? How do you escape as an inmate being taken to a hospital where you're receiving treatment? He just slipped his handcuffs and leg shackles and walked out, literally walked out of the hospital. How do you slip your handcuffs and leg shackles?
00:12:31
Speaker 1: I think I've seen this in movies before. I think I've seen this exact plot in movies before where they actually wait and they'll plan it around going to the infirmary, going to the doctor or something. But yes, how he got out of those restraints, who knows?
00:12:44
Speaker 2: I'm assuming there are four, right? So you have to, what do you like massively try to lose weight so that you can slip out.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Maybe he stole a key. Maybe he was able to get the lock undone in some way. Who knows? But if he's been, how long had he been in prison?
00:12:58
Speaker 2: He was only, I don't know his full story, but he was, he was recaptured several hours later. So he was good at escaping. He wasn't good at hiding. So they did get him within a few hours, but that clearly made headlines this week in Tennessee. So to have two inmates in less than one week.
00:13:12
Speaker 1: That one, when I first saw his age, I was impressed.
00:13:15
Speaker 2: 63? I'm like, what?
00:13:16
Speaker 1: This dude was jumping fences? We need to know his prison diet.
00:13:19
Speaker 2: No.
00:13:20
Speaker 1: But no, this guy was in the hospital. And yes, literally, just walked out. Both of these are bizarre in that regard. There was no chase.
00:13:27
Speaker 2: Nothing elaborate.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: It's like somebody turned their back or took a smoke break. How do you let this guy escape? Is he not under guard at all? The entire time.
00:13:37
Speaker 2: Maximum security is what I would think when you're a convicted first-degree murderer who had a body under his home.
00:13:45
Speaker 1: No, no, no. I'm talking about the other guy.
00:13:48
Speaker 2: Oh, the other guy. No, no, no.
00:13:50
Speaker 1: He's out of prison.
00:13:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:13:52
Speaker 1: So it seems like you should have a closer eye on him because he's not within those confines.
00:13:56
Speaker 2: Correct. He's at a hospital. Okay, no, I see what you're saying. He should have had armed guards with him that never let him leave their site except maybe to go to the restroom.
00:14:04
Speaker 1: You know, even, you remember, even Chris the Pike, remember the complaint After all they put her through. Yep, she's still shackled to the bed.
00:14:10
Speaker 2: Yes, she couldn't. Yes, exactly. You know, just in case she was an escape artist of some kind. But by the way, Krista Pike also in the headlines once again this week. Remember the botched execution September 30th. I did have to check. That is less than 30 days ago. But we got a new report from her attorney saying that there were 10 needles in Krista Pike when they tried to execute her with those two doses of of what's supposed to be a lethal injection. Um, but they said that her veins were blown, that this was absolutely everything they had predicted and that that is what happened, but 10 different needles.
00:14:49
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? We hear 10, we've heard higher before. Isn't that crazy? We have heard worse situations where people have put in more needles trying to find a vein in some of these executions.
00:14:59
Speaker 2: It's tough. But, uh, the latest reports are that she's walking more independently and now speaking in full sentences. But her long-term prognosis remains unclear. We still don't know what the state of Tennessee is going to do or not do when it comes to her. I mean, how do you handle something like this? But this has not been the month for the Tennessee Department of Corrections, period.
00:15:23
Speaker 1: So what are they going to do? They might wait until Marsha Blackburn becomes governor of the great state of Tennessee.
00:15:28
Speaker 2: Firing squad. Electric chair. Oh, she was suggesting the electric chair. Yeah. My goodness. Well, that will be next week. They may have a new governor who may have a very specific plan of action when it comes to Krista Pike. And certainly a lot of eyes are going to be on that state trying to figure out where the hell 28-year-old convicted murderer Jacob Morley is right now. We'll stay on top of this developing story for you, but wanted to put it on your radar. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, October 27th, and the same Department of Correction that botched the Krista Pike execution, well, they are facing another public embarrassment. They just let a convicted murderer escape. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ, An Escape Anytime. Robes is alarming. It's disturbing. It calls for investigation. But Robes, when you add into it that there's a guy on the loose who's never supposed to get out of prison because he's a murderer, that raises the stakes.
00:00:36
Speaker 2: That's right. We're talking about 28-year-old convicted first-degree murderer Jacob Morley. And he is serving a life sentence. And he seemingly just casually escaped this Tennessee Department of Corrections prison through a fence. They haven't really explained how he made it through the fence. The word was he breached the perimeter fence, but they didn't go into any detail as to how he was able to breach this fence in a prison uniform.
00:01:13
Speaker 1: Sounds easy.
00:01:14
Speaker 2: Sounds pretty easy. He did it without anyone noticing it. They did the 11.30 p.m. inmate check that they do each night, and they realized... They were one short.
00:01:23
Speaker 1: What was the word they said? Slipped or breached?
00:01:26
Speaker 2: Breached.
00:01:26
Speaker 1: They breached.
00:01:27
Speaker 2: He breached the perimeter fence. Now, actually, the area that this prison sits is interesting. This is in the northwest corner of the state of Tennessee. It's near the Missouri border. It's near the Kentucky border. And it's 100 miles north of Memphis. You know this area pretty well.
00:01:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty big rut row. You got options now. Now you need to coordinate with several other agencies and several other states. Robes, this is a mess. And you're talking about a guy who's potentially, well, certainly dangerous. Don't know if he's armed yet. But this is a guy who, Robes, has nothing to lose.
00:02:05
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
00:02:05
Speaker 1: Nothing to lose.
00:02:06
Speaker 2: And that is what is so frightening. Obviously, Tennessee officials are trying to keep folks in the loop. But yes, it's not just Tennessee. It could be Kentucky. It could be Missouri. It could be a lot of places because he has a vehicle. That's right. This is pretty remarkable. So yes. They say they have security footage showing him breaching the fence, so I guess they know how he got through the fence. I have not seen that, looked for that everywhere. What we do have is video from around 1 a.m., so a short time later, you see him stealing a white 2008 Ford F-350, and this vehicle was about two miles from the prison. It's a commercial truck. It's got equipment in the back. This isn't some nondescript truck. This is a pretty technical and specific looking truck.
00:02:59
Speaker 1: You can't miss it. You don't need to look at the tags on this. It doesn't look like anything else out there. This is an unmistakable. He picked a big target of a truck.
00:03:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a landscaping truck.
00:03:09
Speaker 1: You can't miss what this truck is and they can't find him. I think the timing works out, right? This video was around one in the morning. They discovered him. So if he, I don't know, walking for about two miles.
00:03:19
Speaker 2: Two miles he had to walk somehow undetected. And then, yes, at 1 a.m., they have him stealing this truck. And then at 1.18 a.m., this is the last bit of video evidence that we know of, they found more surveillance video of that very truck driving right past the Hornbeak Fire Department, which is about 15 miles from the prison. So he made pretty good time. 11.30 p.m., they realize he's missing. At 1 a.m., they see him stealing this truck. And at 118, he's flying past the fire department 15 miles from prison. Point being, this dude could be anywhere right now.
00:03:55
Speaker 1: I wonder, we talk about these flock cams and whatnot that people are railing against, but this is the type of thing it's supposed to catch. There's got to be other video. He passed something somewhere. You can't avoid being. But also, if you're out in the middle of nowhere in a rural area, you might not have as many of these cameras out. They don't exactly put prisons in the middle of a, downtown area.
00:04:16
Speaker 2: No, they don't.
00:04:18
Speaker 1: So, but Rose, to think he is rolling. And they noticed it at 1130 that he was gone, right?
00:04:25
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:04:26
Speaker 1: They noticed. How quickly did they get their hands on that video at one o'clock? I wonder. I'm saying, how much of a heads up did he have where he was literally in a vehicle before they even knew to be looking for him in a vehicle?
00:04:38
Speaker 2: Right, because then they had to start looking at all the surveillance cameras around the area to see if any of those cameras captured him or And so, yes, I would imagine that would have taken some time tracking down all these different security cameras around the area. Again, this was two miles from the prison facility.
00:04:57
Speaker 1: It could be hundreds of miles away by now.
00:05:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely. So what have they done? Well, they have put Jacob Morley on the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's most wanted list.
00:05:08
Speaker 1: Is he number one?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but the reward seemed a little paltry, $ 2, 500. Yeah.
00:05:14
Speaker 1: President Trump is offering more for turning in voter fraud.
00:05:18
Speaker 2: He's offering a million bucks. We're getting $ 5, 000 if the Republicans win. Just $ 2, 500 for the murderer. $ 2, 500 for information leading to his arrest.
00:05:27
Speaker 1: I'm not going to risk it.
00:05:28
Speaker 2: I thought that was a very small amount for somebody who, yes, as we pointed out, has nothing to lose. The Tennessee Department of Corrections also made this very clear. Quote, do not attempt to apprehend this fugitive. They're urging people, if you see him, if you see the car, to call 911. And we say, if you see him. He's a big guy. He's 5'11. I mean, he's not that tall, but he's 240 pounds. He's got a big beard from what I could see in the surveillance cameras.
00:06:08
Speaker 1: Big boy. I'm 6'1, 62. I mean, he's almost got 100 pounds on me. We're about the same height.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, exactly.
00:06:16
Speaker 1: Big boy.
00:06:17
Speaker 2: Big boy. He was in a prison uniform. I'm sure he's shed that by now. But again, well, he's got a pretty distinctive beard, green eyes. And yes, his picture is plastered everywhere in those states. But let's talk about why Jacob Morley was in prison in the first place. He was convicted of first degree murder for the killing of 34-year-old Cody Birchfield, who reportedly was his coworker. I was trying to do some research on this trial, but his own girlfriend, Jacob Morley's own girlfriend, testified against him, saying that he literally told her he effing killed him. Gross.
00:06:51
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about this part of it. What's she feeling right now?
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Speaker 2: Exactly. She testified against him last year. I would imagine he's pretty upset about that. But this 34-year-old Cody Birchfield, who left behind a son and a loving family, I read his obituary and just hurt my heart because we, again, we talk about oftentimes the criminals, but the victims here, his family must also be feeling so much right now. He was reported missing in February of 2022, and it wasn't until.
00:07:22
Speaker 2: They went to go to Morley's home because, yes, he was the last person seen with Cody Birchfield. And police described it as something violent happened here. So when Morley came back home seeing that cops are at his house, he takes off. and leads them on a massive high-speed chase all the way to the North Carolina border. They were able to stop him because they called ahead to the North Carolina police and said, hey, can you put some tacks in the road? And literally burst his tires. That's the only way they got him. So he was fleeing the arrest itself. He clearly has a mode of operation. Yeah.
00:08:00
Speaker 1: Slippery fella, ain't he?
00:08:01
Speaker 2: He certainly is.
00:08:02
Speaker 1: Isn't one of his, I think, one of the things he was convicted of was evading police or.
00:08:06
Speaker 2: Something like that? buried under his home weeks later. So now they've got all the evidence they need in addition to, yes, his own girlfriend testifying against him. So he was convicted not only of first degree murder, he was also convicted of aggravated burglary, evidence tampering, as you mentioned, evading arrest and vandalism. So this guy was going away and he just started his sentence last year. So to your point, He had nothing to lose.
00:08:47
Speaker 1: Ancy, fella, he just couldn't even make it a year. I got to get out of here.
00:08:50
Speaker 2: Doesn't like prison, apparently.
00:08:52
Speaker 1: And look, we see a lot of, we've covered a lot of executions and whatnot. Guy's been on death row for 30, 40 years. This is a really young guy.
00:09:04
Speaker 2: What, 26, 28? 28.
00:09:05
Speaker 1: That's a long time he's looking forward to being in prison. Bro, this is a guy who has nothing to lose. They might have a tough time apprehending this guy. Not just finding him, but once they do. he's gonna put up a fight.
00:09:20
Speaker 2: This is the scariest situation for anyone living in any of those states that border the, and again, we don't know how far away he got, because he was driving in the middle of the night. If he was driving in dark, rural streets, areas you aren't gonna have a lot of cameras, not sure how they're gonna find this guy, and obviously, you would think he'd be smart enough to ditch the truck at a certain point, because as we pointed out, a pretty distinctive truck, but they haven't found the vehicle yet. So they have no idea where this guy is.
00:09:46
Speaker 1: I wonder if they know how much gas was in the tank.
00:09:50
Speaker 2: Maybe. I wonder. Maybe. That's a good point. The landscaping company might know exactly how much. Maybe they actually log it.
00:09:56
Speaker 1: Don't they usually low jack a lot of these things? most vehicles these days you can track down. I can see where our Bronco is right now. With an app on my phone. Do they not know where this vehicle is?
00:10:07
Speaker 2: You know what though, babe? It's a 2008. Uh-oh. Never mind.
00:10:09
Speaker 1: It's a 2008 model.
00:10:10
Speaker 2: Forget everything I just said. This is like almost a 20-year-old truck. So thinking they don't probably have the latest technology on it.
00:10:19
Speaker 1: And it's beat the hell up. It's not a vehicle you would normally know. It's like a construction vehicle. Almost you just, you don't pay attention to it. Even though it's big and has a distinct look, it doesn't stand out to you. It just goes by like another car. Concrete mixing truck or a construction truck. You just don't think about it.
00:10:36
Speaker 2: Some landscaping truck flying by you on a country road. Who's going to even look twice?
00:10:41
Speaker 1: But now.
00:10:42
Speaker 2: Well, authorities are hoping somebody will. When we come back, though, you alluded to it at the beginning of the episode. This has been a hell of a month for the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Not only did Krista Pike's debacle happen less than 30 days ago, there was another inmate that escaped this week. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ. Not a good time to be working at the Tennessee Department of Corrections. They've had a lot of tough headlines.
00:11:19
Speaker 1: No, it's not a good time to be on death row in Tennessee.
00:11:24
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
00:11:25
Speaker 1: But it might be a good time to be at this Tiptonville prison because apparently the The fence doesn't really hold up, and you can just breach it and walk out. There will be keys waiting for you in a car not too far away.
00:11:39
Speaker 2: Apparently, Jacob Morley knew exactly how to get out. Just go under the fence and walk two miles and find a car that you can steal that's right there, right for the picking.
00:11:49
Speaker 1: You kind of just made a point there, babe, how easy it was. It has to be a part of the investigation to get help of some kind.
00:11:57
Speaker 2: That will be something, obviously, they will be looking into. But also, you don't even have to look that far because six days ago, 63-year-old Gregory Redden escaped from the Tenancy Department of Corrections. How did he do it? He has apparently a weekly treatment at the Nashville General Hospital. Here's how police say he was. I was like, how do you leave? How do you escape as an inmate being taken to a hospital where you're receiving treatment? He just slipped his handcuffs and leg shackles and walked out, literally walked out of the hospital. How do you slip your handcuffs and leg shackles?
00:12:31
Speaker 1: I think I've seen this in movies before. I think I've seen this exact plot in movies before where they actually wait and they'll plan it around going to the infirmary, going to the doctor or something. But yes, how he got out of those restraints, who knows?
00:12:44
Speaker 2: I'm assuming there are four, right? So you have to, what do you like massively try to lose weight so that you can slip out.
00:12:51
Speaker 1: Maybe he stole a key. Maybe he was able to get the lock undone in some way. Who knows? But if he's been, how long had he been in prison?
00:12:58
Speaker 2: He was only, I don't know his full story, but he was, he was recaptured several hours later. So he was good at escaping. He wasn't good at hiding. So they did get him within a few hours, but that clearly made headlines this week in Tennessee. So to have two inmates in less than one week.
00:13:12
Speaker 1: That one, when I first saw his age, I was impressed.
00:13:15
Speaker 2: 63? I'm like, what?
00:13:16
Speaker 1: This dude was jumping fences? We need to know his prison diet.
00:13:19
Speaker 2: No.
00:13:20
Speaker 1: But no, this guy was in the hospital. And yes, literally, just walked out. Both of these are bizarre in that regard. There was no chase.
00:13:27
Speaker 2: Nothing elaborate.
00:13:28
Speaker 1: It's like somebody turned their back or took a smoke break. How do you let this guy escape? Is he not under guard at all? The entire time.
00:13:37
Speaker 2: Maximum security is what I would think when you're a convicted first-degree murderer who had a body under his home.
00:13:45
Speaker 1: No, no, no. I'm talking about the other guy.
00:13:48
Speaker 2: Oh, the other guy. No, no, no.
00:13:50
Speaker 1: He's out of prison.
00:13:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:13:52
Speaker 1: So it seems like you should have a closer eye on him because he's not within those confines.
00:13:56
Speaker 2: Correct. He's at a hospital. Okay, no, I see what you're saying. He should have had armed guards with him that never let him leave their site except maybe to go to the restroom.
00:14:04
Speaker 1: You know, even, you remember, even Chris the Pike, remember the complaint After all they put her through. Yep, she's still shackled to the bed.
00:14:10
Speaker 2: Yes, she couldn't. Yes, exactly. You know, just in case she was an escape artist of some kind. But by the way, Krista Pike also in the headlines once again this week. Remember the botched execution September 30th. I did have to check. That is less than 30 days ago. But we got a new report from her attorney saying that there were 10 needles in Krista Pike when they tried to execute her with those two doses of of what's supposed to be a lethal injection. Um, but they said that her veins were blown, that this was absolutely everything they had predicted and that that is what happened, but 10 different needles.
00:14:49
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? We hear 10, we've heard higher before. Isn't that crazy? We have heard worse situations where people have put in more needles trying to find a vein in some of these executions.
00:14:59
Speaker 2: It's tough. But, uh, the latest reports are that she's walking more independently and now speaking in full sentences. But her long-term prognosis remains unclear. We still don't know what the state of Tennessee is going to do or not do when it comes to her. I mean, how do you handle something like this? But this has not been the month for the Tennessee Department of Corrections, period.
00:15:23
Speaker 1: So what are they going to do? They might wait until Marsha Blackburn becomes governor of the great state of Tennessee.
00:15:28
Speaker 2: Firing squad. Electric chair. Oh, she was suggesting the electric chair. Yeah. My goodness. Well, that will be next week. They may have a new governor who may have a very specific plan of action when it comes to Krista Pike. And certainly a lot of eyes are going to be on that state trying to figure out where the hell 28-year-old convicted murderer Jacob Morley is right now. We'll stay on top of this developing story for you, but wanted to put it on your radar. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.