Escaped Tennessee inmate captured, authorities say

Jacob Allen Morley, the convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison, is in custody, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.

The capture came more than a week after he escaped on Oct. 25 from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville — a town of about 3,500, roughly 100 miles north of Memphis — and allegedly stole a truck that was later found abandoned in Illinois.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that Morley was in custody on Tuesday and said it would provide additional details soon.

Prison officials discovered Morley, 28, was missing around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 25. Security video showed he had breached a perimeter fence, the Tennessee Department of Correction said in a statement.

“He has been added to the Tennessee Most Wanted list and should be considered dangerous,” it said.

Morley was convicted in 2025 of murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and aggravated burglary in the killing of co-worker Cody Birchfield, 34, in 2022, according to court documents shared by the Carter County Clerk’s Office in Tennessee.

In an interview with NBC News, Birchfield’s sister, Carrie Norman, called her brother’s killer “a very dangerous man.”

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