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Man accused of torture killing escapes psychiatric hospital

By MARTHA BELLISLE, Associated Press
Published: April 7, 2016, 5:10pm
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Anthony Garver (Lakewood Police Department via AP)
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SEATTLE — A man accused of torturing a woman to death but found too mentally ill for trial was on the loose Thursday after crawling out a window in a locked, lower-security unit of a Washington state psychiatric hospital already facing federal scrutiny over safety problems.

Anthony Garver, 28, escaped Wednesday night with Mark Alexander Adams, 58, a patient who had been accused of domestic assault in 2014 and was captured Thursday morning, officials said.

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