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SPRINGVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A convicted killer from Colbert County is back in police custody.

Alabama Department of Corrections officials told WAFF 48 that 64 year old Steve Ray Murphy escaped from the St. Clair Correctional Facility just before 1 a.m. Tuesday. About 8 hours later, investigators announced he’d been recaptured.

He is serving a life sentence for a 1984 murder.

Prison officials did not provide any additional details on how he might’ve escaped or where he was recaptured.

According to CNN, Murphy also escaped from the same prison in 2001. He was captured in Tennessee after one day on the run.

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