Travis Lee Davis, 30, broke out of jail in Missouri and was arrested in Oklahoma days later, only to immediately steal a police car and disappear yet again.
Travis Lee Davis disappeared from the Pettis County Jail in Sedalia, Mo., over the weekend, sparking a manhunt that now spans multiple states. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 14 at 7:13 AM From the outside, the forbidding concrete walls and narrow slit windows of the Pettis County Jail make it look like a fortress was planted smack dab in the middle of the historic downtown area for Sedalia, Mo.
On Thursday morning, the search entered its fourth day. Officials first announced that Davis had gone missing early on Monday, warning the public that he was considered dangerous and that they should be on the lookout for a man with a prominent Eye of Providence tattoo on his neck. According to KRCG, he had been in jail since February, when he was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill his pregnant girlfriend and her 8-month-old baby during a standoff with police.
Officials have said that they’re still trying to figure out exactly how Davis’s escape went undetected, and there have been conflicting reports about when and how he disappeared. Initially, Pettis County Sheriff Kevin Bond told KRCG and the Sedalia Democrat that Davis snuck out of jail on Sunday and was reported missing that same night, and that he seemed to have kicked cinder blocks out from a wall and climbed through the hole to a maintenance room.
Just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, authorities in Heavener, Okla., got a strange call from the Choctaw Travel Plaza, an all-night gas station on the outskirts of town where the slot machines are as much of a draw as the gas pumps. A woman there told them that she had been kidnapped by a man who had forced her to drive at gunpoint, then had fallen asleep when they stopped for gas. Correctional officers from a nearby prison got there before the police did, and she pointed them to Davis.
Police sped after him, only to find the empty police car abandoned amid bare trees and thick, bristly underbrush. No weapons appeared to be missing from the car, KHBS reported.Posted by Poteau Daily News on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Once again, it was a mystery how Davis had managed to pull off an escape that should have been impossible.
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