WARREN, Pa. — (WARREN, Pa.) -- As the manhunt for suspected murderer and 'self-taught survivalist,' Michael Burham stretched into its seventh day Thursday in the northeast Pennsylvania woods, an official who viewed surveillance video of the jail escape said the fugitive 'looked like a spider' as he quickly made his getaway from the lock-up's rooftop recreational yard cage.
WARREN, Pa. — -- As the manhunt for suspected murderer and"self-taught survivalist," Michael Burham stretched into its seventh day Thursday in the northeast Pennsylvania woods, an official who viewed surveillance video of the jail escape said the fugitive"looked like a spider" as he quickly made his getaway from the lock-up's rooftop recreational yard cage.
Investigators are looking for a person who was operating a drone near the Warren County Jail around the exact time Burham absconded, Pennsylvania State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens revealed Wednesday evening. Bivens said while there could be a"reasonable explanation" for the drone flying in the area, he added,"I'm not a big believer in coincidences."
Eggleston said according to what he saw in the video, the 5-foot-10, 160-pound Burham appeared “like a spider" as he climbed atop workout equipment in the 40-foot-by-40-foot rooftop recreation room, and squeezed through a hole at the top of the of the caged exercise area. Eggleston said Burham also breached a second chain-link fence barrier over the jail's roof, finding a"small portion" where pieces that hold down the fencing were broken.
Eggleston added,"There was no delay, nobody was having a sandwich. It wasn't a situation where somebody was asleep at the wheel." He said that while his officers quickly set up a perimeter around the jail, they didn't have a sense of where Burham went after accessing the roof until they discovered the tied-together bedsheet on the western side of an adjacent courthouse. He said officers still didn't know which direction Burham ran once on the ground until they managed to view the exterior courthouse surveillance camera footage about 60 to 90 minutes after the escape, giving Burham a significant head start.
Bivens said Burham was being held at the jail on kidnapping and burglary charges. The Chautauqua County, New York, District Attorney's Office confirmed that Burham is the prime suspect in the May 11 slaying in Jamestown of 34-year-old Kala Hodgkin.
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