3 shoeless inmates found after escaping Poplar Bluff jail

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Two murder suspects and a third inmate who escaped from a Southeast Missouri jail were found Tuesday hiding in the cab of a truck at a salvage yard, still wearing their orange jail suits but without their shoes, authorities said.

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