Chesterfield County inmate back in custody after escape, sheriff’s office says

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. — The Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office has taken an inmate back into custody after he escaped late Saturday night.

On Saturday night, deputies announced they were looking for Emanuel Bedford, who escaped from the Chesterfield County Detention Center around 10 p.m.

By 1 a.m., deputies said they had taken Bedford back into custody. The details of the escape have not been released.

Bedford is accused of kidnapping and killing Pageland mother, Deidre Reid. In September 2021, Reid drove Emanuel Bedford to a Charlotte bus station, but she never returned home, according to prosecutors.

Investigators said that on the afternoon Reid disappeared, Bedford was spotted on surveillance video at a York County gas station driving Reid’s car.

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