Corrections and law enforcement officers are seeking inmate serving three life terms who was convicted of the murders of two men in Yadkin County. James Ladd  escaped Sunday while working outside Tillery Correctional Center in Halifax County. Ladd had been operating a tractor on the prison farm Sunday morning. That tractor was found abandoned on the farm just before noon. Ladd, 51, was serving three consecutive life sentences in connection with robbery and shooting deaths of two men on a Yadkin County farm in 1981.

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