Escaped murderer found in Alabama
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A convicted murderer who escaped from a work-release program 33 years ago was captured in Alabama, where he had been using his real name, U.S. Marshals announced Saturday.
Billy Wayne Hayes, 57, was arrested by marshals and police Friday night in Dothan, Ala., nearly 350 miles from Nashville, where he had been imprisoned.
Hayes was sentenced in 1968 to 10 years at the Tennessee State Prison for second-degree murder in Davidson County. Assigned to a work-release program, he never returned after signing out for work in 1972.
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