The physique of an inmate who escaped from an Ohio prison almost 5 days in the past was discovered floating within the Ohio River on Sunday afternoon.
Bradley Gillespie, 50, had been imprisoned since 2016 for homicide earlier than he and James Lee, 47, broke out of the Allen Oakwood Correctional Establishment in Lima, Ohio, final Tuesday.
Lee, who was handed down a jail sentence in 2021 for housebreaking and safecracking, was captured in Kentucky on Wednesday, following a police pursuit of a stolen automobile each males had been suspected to be in.
The car finally crashed, and each inmates fled the scene on foot.
Lee was arrested on the scene, whereas Gillespie remained at massive.
Throughout a press convention on Sunday afternoon, Henderson police introduced they discovered Gillespie’s physique within the Ohio River.
In response to Henderson Police Division Chief Sean McKinney, a boater on the Ohio River known as and mentioned he noticed what he believed was a physique within the water.
When police responded, they confirmed it was in reality a physique, and it was discovered close to Gillespie’s final confirmed whereabouts.
McKinney mentioned he believed they’d closure to the five-day manhunt for Gillespie.
“A preliminary investigation signifies we recovered the physique of Bradley Gillespie from the river,” he mentioned.
The chief mentioned that an post-mortem could be performed on the physique on Tuesday.
It was not clear how lengthy Gillespie had been within the water or how lengthy he had been useless.
McKinney added that the quantity of decomposition the physique confirmed indicated he had been useless for about 4 days.
