Escaped murderer's stolen truck found, location unknown

🗞️ Story file #989

Escaped murderer's stolen truck found, location unknown

Oct 26, 5 PM ET to Oct 28, 7 PM ET

22outlets carried it
🫏8 · 5 · 9🐘left · center · right
2.1 dayson the front pages
20front pages at once, at its peak
12 minof TV captions
6radio newscasts
10people retold it online
2 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 26, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 27, 1 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 27, 5 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 27, 2 PM ETpeak: on 20 front pages
Oct 28, 5 AM ETretold online by 10 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 26, 5 PM to Oct 28, 7 PM ET (peak 20), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“he will kill somebody”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

🗣️ Only one side says

🫏 left
serving life
life sentence
man serving

🐘 right
nothing of its own

phrases three or more outlets on one side used and none on the other

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 8 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “Convicted murderer escapes prison: Officials” → “Escaped murderer's stolen truck found, location remains unknown: Authorities”
CNN (3 wordings): “Manhunt underway after convicted murderer escapes through Tennessee prison’s fence and flees in stolen truck, officials say” → “Manhunt underway for convicted killer who escaped through Tennessee prison fence and fled in stolen truck, officials say”
Fox News (3 wordings): “Tennessee inmate convicted of murder escapes from prison, manhunt underway: Officials” → “Escaped killer's abandoned truck offers clues to what he may do next: retired FBI agent”
NBC News (5 wordings): “Authorities launch manhunt for convicted killer who escaped Tennessee prison” → “As Tennessee manhunt continues, sister of murderer’s victim warns ‘he will kill somebody’”
News Nation (2 wordings): “Manhunt underway after convicted murderer escapes Tennessee prison” → “Murder victim's friend warns public amid manhunt for Tennessee prison escapee”
Newsweek (5 wordings): “Who is Jacob Morley? Manhunt Underway After Killer Escapes Tennessee Prison” → “Jacob Morley Sightings As Manhunt Continues For Escaped Killer”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Manhunt under way in Tennessee after convicted murderer escapes prison” → “Man serving life sentence for murder escapes Tennessee prison, slipping through fence, officials say”
The Washington Post (3 wordings): “Search underway after man convicted of murder escapes Tennessee prison” → “Manhunt underway for escaped prisoner who stole a truck during his getaway”

Every outlet's first headline (22), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Man Serving Life Sentence For Murder Escapes Tennessee Prison Through Fence Oct 26, 5 PM ET
The Guardian Manhunt under way in Tennessee after convicted murderer escapes prison Oct 26, 1 PM ET
ABC News Convicted murderer escapes prison: Officials Oct 26, 1 PM ET
CBS News Convicted murderer escapes prison through fence, steals truck Oct 27, 9 AM ET
CNN Manhunt underway after convicted murderer escapes through Tennessee prison’s fence and flees in stolen truck, officials say Oct 26, 10 PM ET
NBC News Authorities launch manhunt for convicted killer who escaped Tennessee prison Oct 26, 8 PM ET
The Washington Post Search underway after man convicted of murder escapes Tennessee prison Oct 27, 1 PM ET
Yahoo News Murderer serving life escapes Tennessee prison and is still at large Oct 27, 1 AM ET
BBC Manhunt under way for Tennessee killer who escaped prison through a fence Oct 27, 12 PM ET
News Nation Manhunt underway after convicted murderer escapes Tennessee prison Oct 26, 5 PM ET
Newsweek Who is Jacob Morley? Manhunt Underway After Killer Escapes Tennessee Prison Oct 27, 5 AM ET
Scripps News Tennessee inmate serving life sentence escapes through prison fence Oct 27, 9 AM ET
Straight Arrow News Surveillance video shows escaped Tennessee murderer driving away in stolen truck Oct 27, 8 AM ET
Just the News Convicted murderer escapes from maximum-security Tennessee prison, authorities confirm Oct 27, 12 AM ET
The Sun FINAL STEPS Haunting map of killer Jacob Morley's last-known movements as he fled in stolen truck after jail escape Oct 28, 2 PM ET
The Washington Times Tennessee murderer on the run after escaping from state prison Oct 27, 6 PM ET
Fox News Tennessee inmate convicted of murder escapes from prison, manhunt underway: Officials Oct 26, 2 PM ET
IJR Convicted Murderer Escapes Tennessee Prison; Manhunt Underway Oct 27, 2 PM ET
New York Post Manhunt underway for murderer who escaped Tennessee prison Oct 26, 11 AM ET
The Daily Wire WATCH: Convicted Killer Escapes Prison, Triggers Multi-State Manhunt Oct 27, 1 PM ET
The Western Journal Have You Seen Him? Police Search for Murderer Who Escaped Tennessee Prison Oct 26, 7 PM ET
Townhall There's a Manhunt Underway for Escaped Tennessee Murderer Oct 27, 9 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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leans left
right

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by programme; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

podcasts, newsletters and streams that talked about it, by show; the bar is episodes; the disc is the show's lean by reputation

🫏 CNN 5 Things 1

🕵️ investigative reporting on it and 🃏 satire joking about it (jokes, never counted as coverage); the bar is pieces

🕵️🤷 No investigator or satirist matched to it yet.

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

An escaped prisoner escaped from a Tennessee prison and is being sought in a manhunt after stealing a truck. Oct 28: told by 10 people

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ Names in it

TennesseeTennessee Department of CorrectionConvicted murdererInmateMan serving life sentence for murder

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Tennessee prisoner escape

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