Nation IN BRIEF : VIRGINIA : Killer Who Escaped Prison Is Recaptured
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A bruised and scraped killer was recaptured at a foggy crossroads more than a day after word of his escape from a rural maximum-security prison alarmed families living nearby. In the hours before Geoffrey A. Ward was caught, police cars followed school buses and parents stood with their children at bus stops. Ward was captured about 15 miles from Powhatan Correctional Facility, west of Richmond.
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