New Brunswick RCMP transferred convicted murderer and escape artist Richard Lee McNair to a maximum security prison in Renous on Friday.
McNair, 48, has been featured on America's Most Wanted since escaping from a Pollock, La., federal penitentiary in April 2006 where he was serving three back-to-back life sentences.
He was captured in the northern New Brunswick town of Campbellton on Thursday.
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Mailed himself to freedom
Listed by U.S. federal marshals as one of America's 15 most-wanted criminals, McNair escaped from prison by mailing himself out.
McNair had been repairing torn mail bags in the federal prison when he hid in a shrink-wrapped pile with just a tiny breathing straw, said the U.S. marshals. From his hiding place, he was shipped to a nearby warehouse where he worked himself free.
Part of the escape has been immortalized on YouTube, where a dashboard cam on a police cruiser catches McNair talking his way out of capture by convincing an officer looking for the convict that he is Robert Jones, just out for a jog.
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Warning: Some coarse language.