ALBION, Pa. -- A convicted murderer sentenced to life behind bars was on the loose Monday after escaping from a medium-security prison in northwestern Pennsylvania. Guards conducting a routine inmate count discovered that Malcolm Kysor, 53, of Erie, was missing Sunday afternoon from the State Correctional Institution-Albion. The prison was locked down Monday while state police and correction officials investigated how Kysor was able to get free, authorities said. Kysor was convicted in January 1987 of first-degree murder in the beating death of Barney Fenton, 40. He was arrested in June 1981 for drunken driving in Fenton's car, and nearly a year later Fenton's remains were found buried along Interstate 79 outside Erie. The medium-security prison southwest of Erie houses about 2,300 inmates, said Sue McNaughton, a state Department of Corrections spokeswoman.
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Posted by: chiefwiggum
This is another reason to have the death penalty. Why Medium security? Who decided he wasn't an escape risk? If he waited a few more years he could have just walked away from some Minimum Sec. farm some place.
Posted by: justanotherparatrooper
Ditto...the deathpenalty!
Posted by: kwflatbed
Pa. killer at large after hiding in trash to escape
By The Associated Press
ALBION, Pa. — A convicted murderer remained at large Tuesday, two days after he escaped from a medium-security prison by hiding in a garbage can, state police said. The inmate, Malcolm Kysor, 53, has been serving a life sentence since 1988 for an early 1980s murder in Erie County. He was discovered missing from the State Correctional Institution-Albion during a routine check Sunday. Surveillance camera video showed that after Kysor hid in the garbage can, another inmate, John Gromer, helped Kysor escape by placing a box and plastic bag over him for concealment, then pushed the can off a loading dock and into the back of a pickup truck, police said. Investigators said Kysor told Gromer someone on the outside was going to pick him up. Erie County District Attorney Brad Foulk said he would decide whether to file charges against Gromer, 26, of Philadelphia. The FBI announced an unspecified reward for information leading to Kysor's capture. A lockdown remained in effect at the prison Tuesday, authorities said. The prison houses about 2,300 inmates and is located just outside downtown Albion, a small town about 20 miles southwest of Erie in Pennsylvania's northwest corner.
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