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| Oregon escapee captured in Idaho |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/02/2001 |
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A killer who escaped from the Snake River Correctional Institution has been captured in Idaho, authorities said Thursday. Lee John Knoch, 23, was captured by the Fort Hall Tribal Police near Pocatello, Idaho, said Perrin Damon, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. Damon said she did not know the time of the capture, or if there was a standoff. The Idaho State Police are returning Knoch to Oregon. Knoch and another inmate, Aaron O'Hara, 23, escaped Wednesday night after cutting a hole in a perimeter fence. O'Hara, 23, who is serving a six-year sentence for sodomy, sex abuse and rape, was caught by an officer patrolling the roads outside of the prison. Knoch is serving a life sentence without parole. Knoch, of Dundee, was convicted of murdering Robert Holliday, 30, of Newberg, to keep Holliday from testifying against him. Knoch was accused of torturing Holliday, who was brutalized and buried alive in March 1997, just days before Knoch's trial in the torture case was to begin. Robert Holliday's father, Brad, filed a lawsuit in Yamhill County, blaming the county's senior pretrial release officer because he said Knoch had violated the terms of his release several times while out on bail. At the time, Brad Holliday argued that Knoch's father had accepted responsibility to help oversee his son's compliance with release terms, but neglected that duty. Holliday later settled the suit, which also named the city and state, for $112,000. The case led to a ballot measure, passed in 1999, that allows judges to deny bail to any defendant deemed a danger to a victim or the community at large. |
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