Escapee With Survival Skills Caught After Manhunt; Ex-Army Ranger Had Murdered 2 In Pioneer Square

A convicted murderer from Bellevue who escaped from Clallam Bay Corrections Center by using a dummy to fool guards was captured this morning.

Daniel Jolliffe, 27, an ex-Army Ranger with above-average survival skills, was found hiding beneath a truck by a guard near the prison.

Jolliffe, a former construction worker from Bellevue, and Steven Henderson, 25, escaped the prison early yesterday. Henderson was caught just outside the facility shortly after the 1 a.m. escape, said prison spokeswoman Patricia Woolcock.

Jolliffe was described by his family as a former Army Ranger - an elite force trained in advanced survival and combat skills.

He has "higher survival skills than the average person," said County Undersheriff Joe Martin, incident commander for the search.

It's still not known how the men got out of their locked cells in one of the prison's close-custody units. The units house inmates who need more than medium but less than maximum security, Woolcock said.

She said the men apparently tricked guards by leaving a dummy and a puffed-up bed in their cells.

Jolliffe was sentenced in 1993 to 27 years in prison for the second-degree murders of two unarmed men in a Pioneer Square alley following an argument inside the J&M Cafe.

A jury determined Jolliffe shot Steven Goddard, 25, of Anchorage and Tony Hendricks, 30, of Kent in anger, rather than self-defense as he had claimed.

More than 100 officers from several departments had been searching the area around the prison, using dogs and a helicopter.

Both escapees were able to scale two 12-foot fences topped with razor wire. An alarm sounded when the men scaled the second fence, Woolcock said.

The last successful escape from the prison was in 1989.

Jolliffe's prison term was scheduled to end in 2018.

Henderson, who is serving a 30-year sentence for first-degree murder, was set for release in 2024. He was convicted in the 1994 death of a Lynnwood man who was thrown into the Skykomish River. He will be charged with escape, according to Woolcock.