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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Edward Messer Jr.
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Race: White |
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Age Now: 26 |
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Height: 5'3" |
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Weight: 160 lbs. |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Wears mustache and goatee |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Hazel |
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Wanted for :
Escape , Clinton , AR;
Jun 20, 2006
Rape - 3 cts.
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Location(s) |
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Last Seen : Clinton , AR |
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Possible Location : , MO
, AR
Police believe Callahan and the two other escapees may have been spotted in Bakersfield Missouri on the night of June 20, 2006. |
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Last Known : Unkown |
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Traits |
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Case Story |
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Joining The Team |
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Police say accused killer William Callahan had escaped from the Van Buren County Jail nearly four months ago. Callahan was quickly captured. But police say he didn't stop believing the jail couldn't hold him. During the early morning hours of June 20, 2006, detectives say Edward Messer joined Callahan and four other inmates: Edward Messer Jr., Lester Byes, Thomas Martin IV, Peter Boulette, and Randy Crisel, in putting an another escape plan in motion. Police say Messer was in jail on rape charges.
Around 3:00 a.m., police believe the inmates may have climbed onto each other's shoulders - forming a human ladder - to reach a 20-foot ceiling of the jail's common area. Investigators say they somehow broke two holes in the ceiling, then climbed to the roof, then dropped to the ground using bedsheets for rope.
Detectives believe the crew split up into groups shortly after the escape.
Police learned that Martin, Boulette, and Crisel were spotted at a Walmart around 3:30 a.m. Police say the escapees bought clothes, food, and several air pistols. Investigators say surveillance cameras captured the three men in a motel parking lot nearby changing out of their jail-issued clothes. However, with the help of search dogs, cops picked those three up within a few hours.
Meanwhile, at around 3:15 a.m. a man driving a green Pontiac Bonneville left his car running as he left to quickly deliver some newspapers at an apartment complex near the jail. When he came back to the car, it was gone. Detectives believe Callahan, Messer, and Byes stole the vehicle.
A police officer in Bakersfield Missouri tried to pull over a car matching that decription last night, but the vehicle wouldn't stop. Police say the suspected car did a quick U-turn during the chase and rammed the police cruiser head on. The officer wasn't injured, but his car was disabled, and the other vehicle got away. Police say Callahan, Messer, and Byes have ties to southern Missouri and may have been in that car. |
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