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State-Wide Manhunt for Forensic Psychologist Who Helped Patient Escape Mental Facility

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Forensic Psychologist and Patient on the Run.

Arkansas law enforcement officials votes for manhunt in case of forensic psychologist who helped patient escape.

The Arkansas authorities have announced that several state agencies have joined forces in mounting a state-wide manhunt for a 41-year-old forensic psychologist who helped a mental patient escape a Little Rock facility. Suspects were spotting fleeing the facility by security cameras.

Forensic Psychologist Used Access Card to Bust Out Mental Patient

During a recent press conference, the Arkansas authorities revealed that a state-wide manhunt had been mounted in order to capture 41-year-old Michelle Messer, an Arkansas State Hospital psychologist, and 46-year-old Cory Chapin, a patient with a severe mental condition.

According to the authorities, Messer entered the building on Tuesday night using her access card, traversed the forensic unit, went to the wing where Chapin was committed and opened his cell door. The security cameras affixed to the hospital’s courtyard captured the forensic psychologist running with Chapin.

At the moment, the authorities are trying to establish the relationship between the two and determined how Messer ended up caring for Chapin.

According to a document recently made public by the authorities, Chapin was arrested and charged in 2015 with theft, kidnapping, driving without a license, and drug possession of someone with a mental illness.

He was briefly acquitted on account of his mental illness and committed to the Little Rock facility. One year later, the patient who would claim in court that it was God who ordered him to kidnap his victim, managed to flee the state after the medical board granted him a two-day pass in order to visit his father.

Chapin would be apprehended in 2017 in Las Vegas and returned to the mental facility. Following his recommitment, the forensic psychologist would be called upon to handle his case.

And now, for reasons unknown, the woman not only facilitated his escape but ran away with him.

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