Public Safety · Tiptonville, TN
Man Serving Life Sentence Escapes Tiptonville Prison Around 11:30 p.m. Sunday
Jacob Morley, 28, serving a life sentence for first-degree murder escaped from the Northwest Correctional Complex in Tiptonville, Tennessee, by slipping through a fence while wearing his prison uniform. Officials discovered he was unaccounted for around 11:30 p.m. Sunday, and law enforcement has been searching buildings and structures near the prison in an isolated rural area about 90 miles north of Memphis. The Tennessee Department of Correction is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for Morley's arrest. Morley was convicted in 2022 for killing co-worker Cody Birchfield, whose body was found under Morley's Carter County home.