November 16, 200520 yr From Iowa State Pen. Apparently missing for over 24 hours now.. Just heard it on CNN.
November 16, 200520 yr FOX news says that they didn't have guards in the towers anymore at the prison to try and cut costs.
November 16, 200520 yr Author QUOTE(Brian @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 09:18 PM) FOX news says that they didn't have guards in the towers anymore at the prison to try and cut costs. Yea they are saying that they scaled a wall that had no wire using materials from an furniture shop at the prison. Heads will roll for this one... Hopefully they catch them before anyone is hurt.
November 16, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 09:04 PM) From Iowa State Pen. Apparently missing for over 24 hours now.. Just heard it on CNN. I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to post it. I certainly wasn't going to post anything bad about Iowa.
November 16, 200520 yr QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 09:20 PM) Yea they are saying that they scaled a wall that had no wire using materials from an furniture shop at the prison. Heads will roll for this one... Hopefully they catch them before anyone is hurt. No, I won't.
November 16, 200520 yr QUOTE(Heads22 @ Nov 15, 2005 -> 10:45 PM) No, I won't. LMAO! I was just gonna post something like that.
November 17, 200520 yr Author Found 1 of them DES MOINES, Iowa - A convicted murderer who escaped this week from an Iowa prison was captured Thursday in Illinois after he was found sleeping in a car, authorities said. A second fugitive remained at large. Martin Moon, 34, was caught in Chester, Ill., near the Menard State Penitentiary in southern Illinois, Gov. Tom Vilsack said. Prison officials noticed a car parked near the prison and notified local police, who captured Moon after a brief chase. A search for the other escapee, 27-year-old Robert Joseph Legendre, is now nationwide, investigators said. Moon and Legendre broke out of the prison in Fort Madison on Monday night. Authorities said they used a homemade grappling hook to scale an unguarded section of the prison's limestone walls and somehow got around a wire that is supposed to activate an alarm when touched. Police in Randolph County, Ill., said Moon was found sleeping in a car near Chester, about 50 miles southeast of St. Louis. When an officer stopped to run on a check on the car's license plates, Moon drove off. After a short chase, Moon jumped out of the car and ran into the woods, where he was caught, police said. Moon crashed the car into a tree, Vilsack said. Moon was convicted of first-degree murder in 2000 for shooting his roommate, Kevin Dickson, during a drug deal in 1999. Legendre had been transferred from a prison in Nevada, where he was convicted of attempted murder in the beating of a cabbie. An investigation of the escape has begun, Vilsack said. "When the job is not done, people are going to be held accountable and responsible," Vilsack said. "There were a series of mistakes that were made." Moon must appear in court in Illinois and faces extradition to Iowa. A previous version of this story stated one of two convicted murderers who escaped this week from an Iowa prison was captured Thursday. Prison escapee Robert Joseph Legendre, 27, was not convicted of murder. He was convicted of first degree kidnapping, attempted murder and a charge called use of deadly weapons enhanced. He remains at large. Martin Moon, 34, was caught in Chester, Ill. Moon was convicted of first-degree murder in 2000 for shooting his roommate, Kevin Dickson, during a drug deal in 1999.
November 18, 200520 yr Author #2 caught. Second Iowa Prisoner Caught in Missouri 12 minutes ago FORT MADISON, Iowa - The second inmate who escaped from an Iowa prison was captured Friday in southern Missouri, Iowa officials said. Robert Joseph Legendre, 27, was captured in Caruthersville, Mo., said Fred Scaletta, an Iowa prisons spokesman. Legendre was convicted in Nevada in the kidnapping and attempted murder of a Las Vegas cabbie. His capture comes a day after another inmate, Martin Moon, 34, was caught near Chester, Ill., southeast of St. Louis. Prison officials said Moon and Legendre, who had been working in prison industries, escaped using a makeshift rope fashioned from upholstery webbing and a homemade grappling hook on Monday. The inmates climbed over the wall near an unoccupied guard tower, and were discovered missing around 6 p.m. Police in Randolph County, Ill., discovered Moon after officials at Illinois' Menard State Penitentiary called to report a car parked nearby. When an officer stopped to run on a check on its license plates, Moon drove off, but crashed into a fence, authorities said. Moon then tried to run away before being caught by a police dog. Moon agreed to be returned to Iowa and was back at the state prison Friday morning, said Fred Scaletta, Corrections Department spokesman. An investigation of the escape has begun, Gov. Tom Vilsack said. "There were a series of mistakes that were made," he said. A corrections official has said the guard tower near the spot where the inmates went over the wall was unmanned at the time because of budget cuts. Moon was convicted of murder in 2000 for shooting his roommate during a drug deal in 1990.
November 18, 200520 yr Yeeeeeah Fort Madison. The only county in Iowa out of 99 to have 2 county seats is Lee County. Keokuk and Forth Madison, lol not that anyone cares.
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