Murder convict escapes from Edmonton prison.
A 39-year-old man in jail for second-degree murder escaped from a minimum-security Edmonton prison Friday night.
According to the Correctional Service of Canada, James Gordon Wrigley was reported missing from the Grierson Centre at 9:30 p.m. Police are currently looking for Wrigley, who was sentenced in 1994 for strangling his 66-year-old landlord Kwong Mah, in Calgary.
At the time, Wrigley was a 23-year-old crack cocaine user who had committed a series of convenience store robberies with a friend to feed their addiction.
The pair jumped the landlord after luring him to a rented townhouse in September 1993.
Wrigley’s friend tied the landlord’s hands while Wrigley wrapped a telephone cord around the landlord’s neck.
The body was stuffed into a closet and discovered a day later by the landlord’s son.
Posted on 6 January '09, under News.
#1 Posted by rob (06.01.09 at 15:29 )
There’s roughly one escape like this every day in Canada from a minimum-security pen. It’s old hat in Kingston, where I’m based, since we have eight (count ‘em, 
federal penitentiaries.
Click the ‘convict cartography’ link on my site to see the prisons and find out more about escapes from our minimums.
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