The ultimate of 4 inmates who escaped from Bent County Jail final month was discovered lifeless in Otero County Saturday, officers introduced Tuesday.
The physique of 46-year-old Mark Fox was present in an empty farmhouse about 5 miles south of Rocky Ford, in keeping with a Tuesday information launch from the U.S. Marshals.
Fox and the three different inmates escaped from the Bent County Jail on July 25 after pushing by way of the sheet rock ceiling of their cell, in keeping with the U.S. Marshals.
Two of the opposite escapees have been caught and returned to custody Aug. 1 and a 3rd was discovered lifeless in Pueblo County resulting from a attainable drug overdose, an earlier launch from investigators said.
Simply after 4 p.m. Saturday, a former resident of the Otero County farmhouse known as the sheriff’s workplace once they returned to retrieve some property and located the physique inside.
In accordance with the information launch, decay and decomposition made it troublesome to establish the physique. The sheriff’s division introduced in a forensic specialist from the FBI was introduced in to acquire autopsy fingerprints and the El Paso County Coroner’s workplace carried out an post-mortem Monday morning.
The reason for dying is undetermined pending a toxicology report, however officers imagine Fox had been lifeless for 2 to a few weeks earlier than his physique was found, the information launch said.
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