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| Two Convicted Murderers Escape N.Y. Maximum-Security Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/08/2003 |
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Two inmates convicted of murder escaped from a maximum-security prison early Monday, officials said. Officers at the Elmira Correctional Facility discovered the men, who shared a prison cell, were missing during a routine inmate count at 6:30 a.m., said Jim Flateau, spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services. Officers later found sheets tied together that led down an outside wall of the 1,856-bed prison, 75 miles southwest of Syracuse in the western part of the state, Flateau said. The inmates were identified as Timothy Vail, 35, who is serving 49 years to life in the 1988 rape and murder of a pregnant secretary, Mary Kopyar; and Timothy Morgan, 26, who is serving 25 years to life for the 1998 murder of cab driver Joseph Boop. Vail won't be eligible for parole until 2037, and Morgan won't be eligible until 2023. Between 80 and 100 law enforcement officers including state and local police were patrolling the highways and setting up roadblocks in the area, Flateau said. Several state police dogs and helicopters also were assisting in the search, and the state enlisted the help of FBI agents in case the men cross the nearby Pennsylvania state line, Flateau said. The inmates, who lived on the top floor of a four-story cell block, had cut a hole in the cement ceiling and escaped through the roof about 50 yards away, he said. The last escape from a maximum-security prison in the state was in 1994 at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill. |
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