The escaped convict Kendell Myles from the New Orleans jail was found hiding beneath a car in the Hotel Monteleone parking garage in the French Quarter, a tourist area less than three miles from the Orleans Justice Center
. Another escaped prisoner in North Carolina was found in the woods in Asheville after abducting a woman and forcing her to help him flee
. An inmate who escaped from a high-security detention center at Rikers Island was found on the island the next morning after jumping over a fence
. Richard Matt, an escaped killer from an upstate New York maximum-security prison, was fatally shot in a wooded area near Malone, about 30 miles from the prison
. Michael Robert Smith, who escaped in 1968 from a California prison, was found 38 years later in a heavily wooded area of Creek County, Oklahoma
. So, the location where an escaped convict was found depends on the specific case, but examples include a parking garage in New Orleans, woods in Asheville or New York, and a wooded area in Oklahoma.
