An inmate charged with murder — and who twice escaped the Ector County Detention Center — claimed he got help after arranging sexual encounters for a jailer and paying him $1,000 for a hacksaw and a ride after escaping.

Because the former jailer has not been sought by police, arrested or charged, the Odessa American has declined to report his name in this article. But the 21-year-old man was accused by Rickey Lavell Taylor of helping him and Robert Steven Dudley in their March 5 jail escape.

Dudley and Taylor also escaped Jan. 29 with Russell Graham Rice, but all were caught later that night.

The jailer was fired in March during an investigation into the escaped inmates, and after a search warrant and probable cause was issued for his residence.

Sheriff Mark Donaldson confirmed the 21-year-old jailer was fired but would not specify a reason. He said the internal investigation had concluded.

Donaldson said the firing of the jailer was not meant to show whether he is innocent or guilty of the accusations in the search warrant.

The warrant states that immediately after the escape, Taylor was interviewed on video and he said he “manipulated several jail staff” to provide services and items to aid his escape.

But this jailer gave the most direct assistance, Taylor said in the affidavit, including the hacksaw blade and arranging to have someone pick up the escaped inmates.

According to the affidavit, written and signed by Texas Ranger Brian Burney, Taylor said he showed a series of erotic pictures of women, including Taylor’s wife Andrea Bruce, to the jailer, also promising the jailer he could provide girls to the jailer if the 21-year-old paid to have sex with them.

The affidavit stated a 27-year-old woman maintains an escort service website to support her family and charged the jailer $200 for sex. Taylor told her to pay the jailer $1,000 after the third and final encounter, but wouldn’t tell her why, according to the affidavit.

Taylor said in the affidavit that $500 was for the hacksaw blade and the other $500 was for the ride away from the detention center after the escape.

Dudley and Taylor were able to cut through a shower stall with a hacksaw and made it to a Motel 6 on Interstate 20 before being caught in a motel room later that day, along with Taylor’s wife, Bruce.

Bruce was charged with facilitating escape from a correctional facility, a third-degree felony, and released the following day on a $5,000 bond.

When the 27-year-old woman was shown photos of sheriff’s office employees, she picked out the jailer as the person who she’d had sex with and paid the $1,000, although she was not previously aware who he was or what his name was, the affidavit stated.

The jailer was interviewed and showed physical signs of lying despite denying any role in the escapes, according to the affidavit, and later took a polygraph test. Although he continued to deny the accusations in the test, the affidavit stated he “showed signs of deception throughout the test.”

The jailer’s residence was searched, and several phones were taken as well as a CD, a notebook with receipts, a laptop and a digital storage card.

A message was left late Friday afternoon with Burney’s office but phone calls were not returned by press time. The fired jailer was not at his apartment Monday to comment on this story.

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TIMELINE

Feb. 2, 2009: Two inmates (Robert Steven Dudley and Willie Hurst) attempt to escape from the Ector County Detention Center.

8 p.m. Jan. 29: Three inmates (Dudley, Russell Graham Rice and Rickey Lavell Taylor) escape from the jail.

10:45 p.m. Jan. 29: Rice and Dudley captured by OPD officers.

12:15 a.m. Jan. 30: Taylor captured by deputies.

5:30 a.m. March 5: Jailers notice Taylor and Dudley have escaped again.

6 p.m. March 5: Taylor and Dudley recaptured at the Motel 6 on Interstate 20.

1:30 a.m. March 6: Noises are heard from a cell and Eddie Licon Palma Jr. is missing from his cell.

3 a.m. March 6: Palma found between the ceiling and the roof.

March 7: Sheriff Mark Donaldson says he suspects one of his employees assisted in the March 5 escape.