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Second Kentucky Escapee Nabbed in Indiana

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

GOSHEN, Ind. — The second of two escaped inmates suspected of abducting a South Carolina woman during a multistate crime spree was captured Wednesday in Indiana. The woman's whereabouts were not immediately known.

Chadrick E. Fulks, 25, was being questioned Wednesday afternoon.

FBI agent Kathy Guider said federal agents had notified Goshen officials that Fulks might be headed there because his father and brother live in the area.

The FBI said Fulks was arrested after he came out of his brother's house in Goshen and got into a car. He was caught by a police officer after a short chase on foot.

Fulks' brother and a woman driving the car were being questioned and agents were checking the car and home for clues. FBI agent Tom VanWormer said it was not immediately clear if authorities were any closer to finding 44-year-old Alice Donovan.

Authorities believe Donovan was kidnapped last week from a Wal-Mart parking lot in Conway, S.C., by Fulks and another escaped inmate, L. Branden Basham, who was captured Sunday. Police said the woman's ATM card had been used near Raleigh, N.C., last week.

Fulks and Basham, 21, broke out of the Hopkins County jail in Kentucky on Nov. 4.

They are suspected of abducting a 42-year-old Kentucky man, James Hawkins, two days later and leaving him tied to a tree with duct tape and electrical cord. Hawkins freed himself after 14 hours.

Basham was arrested after allegedly trying to hijack a car at an Ashland, Ky., mall. Without elaborating, Kentucky police said Basham's arrest yielded "a lot of leads" in the search for Donovan.

At the time of the escape, Basham was serving a five-year sentence for writing a bad check. He had broken out of the same jail in February but was quickly caught. Fulks was awaiting trial on robbery charges.

The two men were cellmates and they had contrasting reputations.

Fulks was quiet and blended in, while Basham had trouble getting along with inmates, Hopkins County Jailer Jim Lantrip said. He said Basham was involved in a couple of scuffles.

"Basham was a problematic inmate," Lantrip said. "Not a serious, hardcore troublemaker, but just couldn't get along with people. He was just a young, hyperactive, immature person."

Lantrip also said he had talked to Hawkins about his ordeal.

"He thought Basham was being manipulated by the other guy," the jailer said. "When they stopped to get gas, Basham begged Hawkins not to do anything stupid or do anything in which we would have to hurt you."

Basham is a middle-school dropout who was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, his mother, Kathy Basham, said from her home in Madisonville, Ky.

She declined further comment, except to say: "He's sorry for all that he's done, and now all we can do is sit and wait for the verdict."

In the southern Kentucky town of Lewisburg, Fulks was largely unknown. He rented a mobile home and his landlord, Jane Skipworth, said Fulks gave aliases to her and her husband and to utility companies.

She said Fulks always paid his $300 monthly rent though he never held a job. "He was a clean-cut guy, and really, I thought he was a gambler," she said.

"The FBI said Fulks was arrested after he came out of his brother's house in Goshen and got into a car. He was caught by a police officer after a short chase on foot.

Fulks' brother and a woman driving the car were being questioned and agents were checking the car and home for clues. FBI agent Tom VanWormer said it was not immediately clear if authorities were any closer to finding 44-year-old Alice Donovan. "

omg...I didn't know this till this morning reading the thread!

Who's car were they getting into...Alice's???

Please let her be found somewhere safe, this is very scarey news...

prayers sent.