Escaped convicted murderer recaptured  News 12 at 11 o'clock,
August 15, 2007  COLUMBIA, S.C.---A convicted killer who escaped
from a Columbia prison has been recaptured. Authorities spent
the day using boats, helicopters and bloodhounds to search an
area around the prison where Forrest Kelly escaped last night.
He was seen this morning climbing out of the Broad River and
heading for a neighborhood near an overpass on I-20. He was
fished out of that same river around 7:30 this evening.  Kelly
has a history of violent crime convictions and was serving a
life sentence for killing a Laurens motel owner in 1996. is
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