🗞️ Story file #1063
Escaped Tennessee inmate's stolen truck found abandoned in Illinois
Oct 28, 10 AM ET to Oct 28, 11 AM ET
- 7outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1 houron the front pages
- 10front pages at once, at its peak
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 28, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
- Oct 28, 11 AM ETpeak: on 10 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📡 Wire copy
2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word
Chicago Tribune, The Epoch Times
💬 Quoted
- “vanishes into thin air”1
phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did
Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
AP
Truck stolen by escaped Tennessee inmate is found abandoned in Illinois, authorities say Oct 27, 9 PM ET
CNN
Manhunt for escaped Tennessee murder convict crosses state lines after his stolen truck is found abandoned in Illinois Oct 28, 10 AM ET
The Independent
Escaped Tennessee killer 'vanishes into thin air' after stolen truck is found dumped in Illinois Oct 28, 10 AM ET
Chicago Tribune
Truck stolen by escaped Tennessee inmate is found abandoned in southern Illinois, authorities say Oct 27, 5 PM ET
News Nation
New video shows escaped Tennessee murder convict stealing truck Oct 27, 10 AM ET
The Epoch Times
Truck Stolen by Escaped Tennessee Inmate Is Found Abandoned in Illinois, Authorities Say Oct 28, 7 AM ET
Fox News
Murderer’s stolen truck found during manhunt after convict’s prison escape Oct 27, 4 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
TennesseeIllinoisEscaped MurdererTennessee Department of Corrections
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Tennessee prisoner escape
Escaped Tennessee inmate's stolen truck found abandoned in Illinois (this story)
Oct 28, 10 AM ET
Escaped murderer's stolen truck found, location unknown
Oct 26, 5 PM ET