The Nation - News from Sept. 18, 1985
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Two tired and hungry Arkansas jail escapees charged with killing a North Carolina state trooper were captured without a shot by authorities who used bloodhounds and helicopters to search the wooded Blue Ridge Mountains for three days. Jimmy Rios, 23, of Branch, Ark., and William Bray, 21, a drifter, offered no resistance and put down their weapons when they were apprehended on a road near Spring Creek, N.C., officials said. Rios and Bray broke out of a Franklin County, Ark., jail late last month.
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