SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Charged with murder in the car-chase death of a Georgia sheriff, Jim Edward Lowery used a jail transfer to stage a dramatic escape as he slipped free of his leg shackles, smashed a patrol car window and fled. When deputies recaptured him hours later in nearby woods, the fugitive prisoner tried to hide rather than put up a fight. It took more than 10 hours and about 100 law enforcement officers to catch Lowery. Deputies surrounded him late Tuesday after he was spotted from a search helicopter in a densely...
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