The trail of an escaped prison inmate went cold about 35 miles east of the city. That's where police found the convicted murderer hiding in a refrigerator.
Daniel Mitchem's 6-foot, 155-pound frame - clad only in gym shorts - was curled inside the icebox at his ex-girlfriend's apartment Thursday.He might have eluded capture, but his 2-year-old daughter pointed at the refrigerator and said: "Daddy's in there," according to Mitchem's ex-girlfriend, Ernestina Rodriguez.
Mitchem, 21, was sentenced earlier this month to 361/2 years in prison in the 1993 shotgun slaying of a 44-year-old man. He was awaiting transfer to the state penitentiary when he and another man escaped from a county jail this week, sliding 65 feet down braided bedsheets and cutting their way out with wire cutters, a hacksaw and a propane torch.
The other fugitive, a gang member awaiting trial in the slaying of a college student, is still at large.