{"id":80543,"date":"2026-10-27T08:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/man-serving-life-sentence-for-murder-escapes-tennessee-prison-slipping-through-fence-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:55:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:55:55","slug":"man-serving-life-sentence-for-murder-escapes-tennessee-prison-slipping-through-fence-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/man-serving-life-sentence-for-murder-escapes-tennessee-prison-slipping-through-fence-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Man serving life sentence for murder escapes Tennessee prison, slipping through fence, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security footage shows Jacob Morley escaping in his prison uniform, investigators describe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a> authorities on Tuesday were still searching for a convicted murderer who, investigators say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/26\/jacob-morley-murderer-tennessee-manhunt\">escaped<\/a> a state prison by slipping through a fence and fleeing in a stolen truck.<\/p>\n<p>The state department of correction (TDOC) said in a statement that officials realized Jacob Morley, 28, was unaccounted for at about 11.30pm on Sunday at the Northwest correctional complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed reporting<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/27\/prison-escape-tennessee-fence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security footage shows Jacob Morley escaping in his prison uniform, investigators describe Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Tennessee authorities on Tuesday were still searching for a convicted murderer who, investigators say, escaped a state prison by slipping through a fence and fleeing in a stolen truck. The state department of correction &#8230; <a title=\"Man serving life sentence for murder escapes Tennessee prison, slipping through fence, officials say\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/man-serving-life-sentence-for-murder-escapes-tennessee-prison-slipping-through-fence-officials-say\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man serving life sentence for murder escapes Tennessee prison, slipping through fence, officials say\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}