HENDERSON, KY (AP) — A convicted murderer who escaped last week from a northwest Ohio prison with another inmate by hiding in a trash container was found dead Sunday after his body was spotted floating in the Ohio River, police in Kentucky said. The discovery brought to a close a manhunt for the missing inmate, Bradley Gillespie, 50.

HENDERSON, Ky. — Bradley Gillespie, an inmate who escaped Allen-Oakwood Correctional Institution last week, has been found dead in the Ohio River after a multiple-day manhunt, according to officials from the Henderson Police Department in Kentucky.

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — Henderson residents can breathe a sigh of relief after a nationwide manhunt for escaped Ohio inmate Bradley Gillespie comes to a close. The Henderson Police Department held a press conference Sunday evening and confirmed the body of Gillespie was found by a boater on the Ohio River.