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Search For Escaped Inmates Scaled Back

Last updated on Wednesday, July 15, 2009

(MICHIGAN CITY) - Two escapees from the Indiana State prison in Michigan City remain at large, but the search has been scaled back.

State police have called off the manhunt near grand beach, Michigan.

45-year-old Lance Battreal, a convicted rapist from Rockport, and 46-year-old Mark Booher who was convicted of a killing in Indianapolis ten years ago.

48-year-old Charles Smith, a convicted killer from New Castle, was recaptured Monday a few miles from the little town on Lake Michigan.

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