A convicted murderer escaped from a jail over the weekend with the help of a worker who had sex with him behind bars, said police.
Kristopher Antonio McNeil, 29, was found missing from his cell at Brown Creek Correctional Institute in Polkton, N.C., about 40 miles southeast of Charlotte, on Saturday morning, according to NBC News.
Serving a 14-year sentence for second-degree murder, McNeil scaled the wall of the prison Saturday morning to make his escape, reported WCVB 5.
Residents in the area recognized him Sunday night from various photos in the media and promptly called authorities, who found him walking along a highway road near the Davidson-Forsyth county line. After being on the run for 36 hours, he was captured just before 11 p.m. Sunday, police said.
He was taken to Central Prison in Raleigh, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
Food services officer Kendra Lynette Miller, 33, was charged with having sex with an inmate, providing an electronic device to an inmate, harboring a fugitive and aiding and abetting a fugitive, reported North Carolina's Fox8. She is being held in the Anson County jail in lieu of $500,000 bail, and is awaiting a July 7 hearing.
This case has a shocking resemblance to the escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat in upstate New York. Fortunately, this case was quickly brought to a close and didn't result in a three-week manhunt.
