A man convicted of a 1979 murder was found and taken back into custody on Saturday afternoon after escaping earlier in the week, according to officials.
Daniel Cahill had been on the run since Wednesday after escaping from community supervision in Maricopa County, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry. He was taken into custody “without incident” at about 4:30 p.m. on Saturday by the department’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit, with the help of the U.S. Marshals Service and local law enforcement, the Corrections Department added.
Cahill was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison in 1980 for the December 1979 killing of 39-year-old Mary-Rita Yates, a saleswoman for KNIX and KTAR radio stations and a single mother to four children.
Yates had returned to her Tempe home and found Cahill burglarizing it. He then attacked Yates, stabbing her multiple times, before fleeing her home. Yates died on the way to the hospital as a result of a stab wound to her neck.