Escapees Let Hostage Go, but Take Another
From Times Wire Reports
Two fugitives released one hostage only to take another before fleeing authorities who have been tracking them for four days.
The inmates, Bob Leach, 38, and Gerald Gantt, 45, left hostage Joyce Silvius at a home they had broken into, then abducted a second woman from the house, police said.
The fugitives belong to a gang of five inmates who escaped Thursday from the Grayson County Jail, about 60 miles north of Dallas. Police have so far captured three of the men.
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