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Prison Escapees Indicted for Capital Murder Save Email Print
Posted: 6:25 PM Mar 27, 2008
Last Updated: 8:28 PM Mar 28, 2008
Reporter: Meredith Stancik
Email Address: stancik@kbtx.com

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There is new information regarding a prison escape that left a correctional officer dead.

We brought you this story when it happened in September, and Friday, the two men responsible for Susan Canfield's death face new charges.

Jerry Martin and John Falk, the two inmates accused of this crime have been indicted by a Walker County Grand Jury. They both face capital murder charges.

They have also been indicted for offenses including attempted capital murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and interference with a police service animal.

Martin and Falk were arrested on September 24, 2007. The day the two inmates escaped work detail in a nearby field and overpowered correctional officer Susan Canfield.

Officials say Falk and Martin took Canfield's weapons, stole a city vehicle, and struck the horse she was riding. Canfield fell to the ground and died.

The two inmates allegedly ditched the first vehicle, stole another from this bank's parking lot and were later captured by authorities.

At the time of the murder, Falk was serving a life sentence for murder, while Martin was serving a 50-year sentence for a variety of crimes including theft and two counts of attempted capital murder.

Walker County District Attorney David Weeks says he plans to prosecute Falk and Martin simultaneously and the jury will have the option of imposing the death penalty.

A trial date has not been set.

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Posted by: john Location: College Station on Mar 28, 2008 at 06:24 AM
So why did this take so long? It wasn't like they had to eliminate a whole lot of other suspects...and Death Penalty opponents please note: Had Falk been given the Death Penalty for the previous murder he committed, it would have gone a long way toward preventing this one.

Posted by: Bob Location: Huntsville on Mar 27, 2008 at 07:37 PM
These monsters are the types of individuals that the death penalty was designed for.

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