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Fugitive couple's car found at Kentucky motel Wed Aug 10, 2005 08:17 PM ET KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - The hunt for an escaped convict and his wife who shot a guard to death outside a Tennessee courtroom, is now centered around northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio, after the couple's second getaway vehicle was found on Wednesday at a motel. George Hyatte and Jennifer Hyatte apparently escaped capture by minutes, said Mark Gwyn, director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. "We feel the couple had been there and left minutes earlier," Gwyn said. Acting on a tip, U.S. Marshals and local...

KINGSTON, Tenn. - Prison nurse Jennifer Forsyth got fired last year for sneaking food to an inmate. A few months later, she got permission from the warden to marry that inmate, George Hyatte, a man with a long and violent criminal record. Now the 31-year-old woman from Utah who had never been in trouble with the law is charged with gunning down a correctional officer Tuesday in a brazen attempt to help her new husband escape. Both are now being sought in a nationwide manhunt for their role in what one law enforcement official called a "Bonnie and Clyde-style shootout."...

Tennessee authorities: "We are searching door to door" "We have not yet looked at the security video from the parking lot"

<p>Wayne Morgan, the corrections officer shot outside the Roane County Courthouse Tuesday morning, has died of his injuries at UT Medical Center.</p> <p>According to a Tennesseee Corrections official speaking with the Knoxville News Sentinel, Jennifer Hyatte, wife of 34-year-old inmate George Hyatte shot Morgan three times with a shotgun Tuesday morning. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of the courthouse.</p>