Larned State Hospital escapee captured
Story by The Associated Press
7:47 a.m. Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Pawnee County Sheriff's Department says a 50-year-old convicted sex offender who escaped from Larned State Hospital has been captured.
Perry Lee Isley Jr. is part of Sexual Predator Treatment Program at the Central Kansas hospital. The sheriff's department confirmed Isley had been found Wednesday evening in eastern Colorado.
Perry Lee Isley is 5'7" and weighs 168 pounds.
Officials are investigating if someone assisted Isley's escape.
A spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services says Isley apparently hid in a laundry bin and used a tool to cut through security fences. An investigation into the escape continues.
Isley was convicted in Shawnee County in 1995 on two counts on aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14.
Isley previously escaped from Pawnee County custody on April 24, 1987.
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