Prison Escapee Suspected in Deaths
A convicted killer who escaped from prison Sunday morning was back behind bars Wednesday but is the prime suspect in two deaths while he was on the run.
Kenneth D. Williams crawled into a 500-gallon barrel of hog slops in a prison kitchen and escaped while the mass of table scraps was being towed to a prison farm, officials said Wednesday.
He is accused in the deaths of a farmer near the prison and the driver of a truck that Williams apparently rammed while driving the farmer’s truck.
The 20-year-old convict was sentenced to life in prison three weeks ago for the 1998 kidnapping and killing of two college students on their first date.
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