Jacob Allen Morley, the convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison, is in custody, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.The capture came more than a week after he escaped on Oct.25 from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville — a town of about 3,500, roughly 100 miles north of Memphis — and allegedly stole a truck that was later found abandoned in Illinois.The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced that Morley was in custody on Tuesday and said it would provide additional details soon.Prison officials discovered Morley, 28, was missing around 11:30 p.m.
on Oct.25.
Security video showed he had breached a perimeter fence, the Tennessee Department of Correction said in a statement.“He has been added to the Tennessee Most Wanted list and should be considered dangerous,” it said.Morley was convicted in 2025 of murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and aggravated burglary in the killing of co-worker Cody Birchfield, 34, in 2022, according to court documents shared by the Carter County Clerk’s Office in Tennessee.Jacob Morley shown in a booking photo released by the Tennessee Department of Correction on July 24, 2025.Tennessee Department of CorrectionsIn an interview with NBC News, Birchfield’s sister, Carrie Norman, called her brother’s killer “a very dangerous man.”“And if he gets ahold of any kind of weapon, he will kill somebody,” she said.For SubscribersFOR SUBSCRIBERSDOJ is deploying a record number of monitors on Election Day FOR SUBSCRIBERSHow to watch election night: Key races, poll closing times, bellwether campaigns and moreFOR SUBSCRIBERSThe Data Dive: Steve Kornacki’s guide to early election night bellwethersFOR SUBSCRIBERS‘Terrible betrayal’: House Democrats consider whether to banish Michigan Rep.Haley Stevens FOR SUBSCRIBERSChatGPT and other AI tools rely on a small Brooklyn nonprofit for voting informationFOR SUBSCRIBERSTrump wants states to set aside ballots.
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