Gadsden woman charged with facilitating inmate David Kyle's escape from Montgomery work center
A Gadsden woman has been charged with facilitating an escape in connection with state inmate David Kyle's escape last month, according to Cherokee County jail records.
Susan Lemley, 40, was booked into the Cherokee County Detention Center Monday by U.S. Marshals Service investigators, and according to WSFA-TV in Montgomery was extradited to the state's capitol city, where the escape occurred. She was arrested at a location in Centre.
An affidavit used to get the arrest warrant accuses Lemley of assisting the escape of Kyle and transporting him to Tennessee. According to the sheriff's office, the warrants were obtained by investigators with the Alabama Department of Corrections.
David Kyle is back in custody; he was captured Monday morning at a residence in the Slackland community by the U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Corrections, and Sheriff’s Office personnel.
Kyle, 49, was serving a 99-year sentence for the brutal murder of a Cherokee County man, Shane McKnight, in September 1998.
The murder occurred in Etowah County with the trial being held the following year and Kyle being sentenced in 2000. At that sentencing, then-Etowah County Circuit Judge Roy Moore stated that if the death penalty had been an option, he would have found it appropriate.
Kyle had been assigned to the Department of Corrections’ Red Eagle Work Center and escaped from there on April 23.
Contact Gadsden Times reporter Donna Thornton at 256-393-3284 or donna.thornton@gadsdentimes.com.
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