{"id":780,"date":"2026-10-27T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2026-10-27T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:00:24","slug":"tennessee-manhunt-jacob-morley-escaped-northwest-correctional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"A CONVICTED KILLER JUST WALKED THROUGH A TENNESSEE PRISON FENCE! | Serving life, rated \u201clow\u201d supervision, and the stolen farm car already turned up 120 miles away in Illinois without him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANHUNT! Tennessee is hunting for <strong>Jacob Allen Morley<\/strong>, 28, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence who broke out of the <strong>Northwest Correctional Complex<\/strong> in Tiptonville, about 90 miles north of Memphis, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c64g17jqy5ddo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee Department of Correction says security footage shows Morley breached the perimeter fence on Sunday and fled in his prison uniform. Investigators released video they say shows him stealing a nearby farm&#8217;s work vehicle. On Tuesday afternoon that vehicle was found in <strong>Illinois<\/strong>, about 120 miles north of Tiptonville. Morley wasn&#8217;t in it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the jaw-dropper: prison records listed his supervision level as <strong>\u201clow,\u201d<\/strong> and he wasn&#8217;t eligible for release until <strong>December 2083<\/strong>. He&#8217;s now on the TBI&#8217;s most wanted list, with a reward of up to <strong>$2,500<\/strong>. The Highway Patrol has aircraft and troopers in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Morley was convicted in 2025 of first-degree murder in the 2022 killing of his co-worker Cody Birchfield, whose body was found in a metal box under Morley&#8217;s home, according to court records reviewed by the BBC. His 2022 arrest followed a police chase into North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another black eye for the state&#8217;s prisons. Earlier this month a 69-year-old inmate escaped and was quickly recaptured, and the corrections commissioner resigned after a botched execution in September.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c64g17jqy5ddo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serving life, rated \u201clow\u201d supervision, and the stolen farm car already turned up 120 miles away in Illinois without him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-tennessee-escape-1027.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}