Quadruple Murderer Escapes From Custody, Allegedly Abducts Woman

A convicted quadruple murder is supposedly on the run this morning after escaping custody in Michigan while also abducting a women. Officials say Michael David Elliot escaped from the Ionia Correctional Facility Sunday possibly through a hole in a fence before obtaining a car and then driving to Indiana.

Elliot then has been said he abducted a woman with a knife before driving with her to Elkhart, Indiana about 130 miles south where they had stopped for gas, Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said. But the woman was able to escape,while Elliot still remains at large. Marlan tells ABC News that a hole was discovered in a fence on the grounds of the Ionia Correctional Facility.“That appears to be how he escaped through a hole he created at the bottom of the fence,” Marlan said in an email. Michigan State Police Lt. Troy Allen said officials are looking for the woman's red 2004 Jeep Liberty four-door with license plate number 5FTG55 also Elliot, 40, has brown eyes and brown hair, stands 5’8” and weighs 165 pounds. He was convicted of murdering four people on Aug. 8, 1993 and is serving four life sentences.

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