Homicide suspect sentenced to 25-plus years to 50-plus years in escape, kidnapping of elderly couple

A homicide suspect who escaped from a northwestern Pennsylvania prison last year and was on the run for more than a week before a pet dog led to his recapture has been sentenced to decades in prison. The (Warren) Times-Observer reports that 35-year-old Michael Burham was sentenced Friday in Warren County Court to 25-plus years to 50-plus years after pleading guilty in November to charges in the July escape and the earlier kidnapping of a Pennsylvania couple. Judge Gregory Hammond called Burham a “grave threat to the public.” Burham apologized to the victims and “everyone in Warren” and also to Erie County correctional officers whom he said he had “treated poorly.”