Sunday, April 06, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347153,00.html
GIRARD, Pa. — A killer who escaped from a Pennsylvania prison in a trash
can was captured in
California after boasting of an appearance on Fox's "America's Most
Wanted,"
state police said
Sunday.
Malcolm Kysor, 54, was arrested Saturday in a Bakersfield, Calif., park
after someone notified
police about the claim, police said.
"Basically, it's a citizen's tip. He was in a park and he started
bragging,"
Trooper Donald
Claypoole of the Girard barracks said.
Kysor was carried out in a truck hauling garbage from the medium-security
State Correctional
Institution at Albion, near Girard in northwestern Pennsylvania. He had
been
serving a life
sentence since 1988 for an early 1980s slaying in Erie County.
An investigation found prison staff negligent, saying workers failed to
conduct routine security
measures such as thoroughly checking the trash can and truck. The prison's
superintendent was
removed and later retired.
Fellow inmate John Gromer was charged with conspiracy for allegedly
helping
Kysor. Authorities
said Gromer told police he put a box and plastic bag over Kysor to help
conceal him in the
garbage can, then pushed it to the back of the truck.
According to a criminal complaint, Kysor told Gromer he had people waiting
outside the prison to
help him.
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