Billy Burchfield was arrested last month in London, Kentucky, where he had lived since escaping a Georgia prison in 1979. He had been serving a sentence for voluntary manslaughter in the death of Vera Sue Burchfield. Burchfield was serving a 16-year sentence for manslaughter when he escaped 37 years ago. The victim's daughter, Janice Smith, told WTVC-TV in Chattanooga (http://bit.ly/2aAyzbZ) that before the shooting in the early 1970s, her mother planned to make Burchfield leave the home. Smith was outraged to find he was still alive, and had been living in hiding in a small Appalachian town.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 28, 2016 18:45 UTC