Michael Burham is now facing more charges related to his Warren County prison escape and the original case involving the alleged kidnapping of a couple after he was the subject of a multi-state manhunt last month.

District Judge Raymond Zydonik ruled during Monday’s preliminary hearings said there was enough evidence to move both cases against the 34-year-old to the Court of Common Pleas, according to a report from the (Warren) Times Observer.

Burham is accused of kidnapping a couple in Sheffield, Pennsylvania, while trying to evade capture in New York, where he was wanted in a rape case and for questioning in a murder case.

A 68-year-old Mead Township woman testified that she and her 89-year-old husband were driven 18 hours in their vehicle to North Charleston, South Carolina, before they were dropped off in a cemetery.

According to a report from CBS News, the woman said Burham targeted them because they lived in an isolated area, were elderly and did not have a large dog, she said.

Burham was initially charged with many counts, including kidnapping, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, assault, terroristic threats, theft, and burglary after his arrest on May 24 in South Carolina.

District Attorney Rob Greene brought additional charges Monday in that case including four more kidnapping counts.

Burham also faces more charges stemming from the July 6 escape from the Warren County jail. Officials said Burham escaped the prison by climbing on exercise equipment, going through a window, and climbing down a rope that was made from jail bedding.

He was recaptured July 15 after a barking dog alerted a couple to his presence on their property.

Deputy Attorney General Heather Serrano alleged in bringing another criminal conspiracy count that Burham “conspired with another inmate” or other inmates to escape from the county jail. Public Defender Kord Kinney unsuccessfully argued there was no evidence of a conspiracy beyond Burham’s possession of more bedsheets than he was assigned.

More than 200 state, federal and local officers took part in the manhunt and up to $22,000 in reward money was posted.

Residents in northwestern Pennsylvania and western New York were asked to regularly review doorbell and surveillance camera footage and to make sure vehicles, structures, and anything else useful to a fugitive was secured.

Greene said he has asked the state attorney general’s office to handle the escape case, citing reports from the Warren city police investigation he said included information that “could possibly implicate” county jail inmates and staff as well as others.

Burham is now being held at Erie County Prison.

District Attorney Jason Schmidt, of Chautauqua County, New York, said in June that Burham is accused of killing 34-year-old Kala Hodgkin in Jamestown, New York, in May, and a related arson in Jamestown, New York, where authorities said they opted to let the state handle the initial prosecution as they examine the killing and arson.

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