By . Helen Pow and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 12:09 EST, 12 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 00:46 EST, 13 March 2013 . Two murder suspects and a third inmate who had escaped from a southeast Missouri jail were found hiding on Tuesday in the cab of a truck at a salvage yard, authorities said. The trio - Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green - were taken into custody around 3:30 p.m. without incident, said Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman Trooper Clark Parrott. One of the men had previously worked at the salvage yard, which was about five miles from the jail. Escapees: Suspected murderers Matthew Brandon Cook, left, and Kade Reaves Stringfellow, right, are on the run . Third inmate: Rodney Joe Green, 33, pictured, is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County home in February . 'The guys who were out there . searching were doing a systematic search and opened up the cab and there . the three of them were,' Parrott said, adding that all three were . wearing orange jail-issued shirts and pants but had lost their shoes. All three men had been jailed . awaiting trials. Cook and Stringfellow were facing murder charges in . separate cases, while Green was facing charges for allegedly shooting . and wounding a couple after breaking into their home. The men had walked to get to the . salvage yard just east of Poplar Bluff after escaping around 11:30 p.m. Monday through the ceiling of the Butler County Jail. Parrott said . authorities hadn't received a tip that the men were there. 'It was just, "Hey, where would you . go if you were on the run?" Someplace familiar,' Parrott said. 'We have . turned over every rock we could find in Poplar Bluff and southeast . Butler County today. And that was just one more place for us to go . look.' Parrott said the men were being interviewed, and he didn't have any information about new charges. Sheriff Mark Dobbs said the inmates . climbed through air ducts to get out. He blamed faulty building design - . walls that don’t extend all the way up to the ceiling - that he said he . and two previous sheriffs had tried to get fixed. Jail employees discovered that the . inmates were missing a short time after the escape, said Frank Casteel, . 911 director for Butler County. Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper . Clark Parrott said the patrol brought in airplanes to aid in the search . that extended as far as Little Rock, Ark. Jail: The trio had escaped through the ceiling of the Butler County Jail, pictured, in Poplar Bluff at around 11:30 p.m. on Monday . Cook, 29, is one of two men charged . with first-degree murder, robbery and other crimes in the February 19 . killing of Bernie, Missouri, man Sean Crow, 34, in a McDonald's parking . lot. Cook allegedly sent a text message to . the victim using the cellphone of a woman they both knew, asking Crow to . meet at the restaurant. Crow was found slumped over in his . pickup truck the next day, dead of a single shot to the head from a . .22-caliber pistol. Surveillance video helped lead police to Cook and a . man who was with him. Stringfellow, . 23, of Portageville, is charged with second-degree murder in the July . death of his infant son, Karson Stringfellow. According . to court documents, medical workers became suspicious due to the . child's injuries and inconsistent statements by Stringfellow, who . claimed he had slipped and fallen while holding his son. Missing: Staff at the jail, pictured, discovered that the inmates were missing a short time after the escape on Monday evening . Doctors . at St. Louis Children's Hospital determined the child had bleeding in . the brain and both eyes, and multiple fractured ribs and other injuries . that they believed were the result of abuse. Green, 33, is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County home in February, holding a husband and wife at gunpoint, then shooting them after a struggle before getting away with their pickup truck. The man was struck in the thigh and his wife was shot in the hand. Both survived. Green was captured days later after a state trooper spotted him driving on a rural road and gave chase. The chase ended when Green's car struck a utility pole and a tree.
Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves .
Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green were found inside a truck at a salvage yard on Tuesday afternoon .
They had escaped via the ceiling .
of the Butler County Jail in Poplar Bluff at around 11:30 p.m.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol and .
Butler County authorities had been frantically searching for the 'extremely dangerous' men .
Cook was awaiting trial for killing a man in a McDonald's carpark .
Stringfellow alleged caused the death of his toddler son .
Green is a burglar, who shot a man and wife after breaking into their home .
By . Helen Pow and Associated Press . PUBLISHED: . 12:09 EST, 12 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 00:46 EST, 13 March 2013 . Two murder suspects and a third inmate who had escaped from a southeast Missouri jail were found hiding on Tuesday in the cab of a truck at a salvage yard, authorities said. The trio - Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green - were taken into custody around 3:30 p.m. without incident, said Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman Trooper Clark Parrott. One of the men had previously worked at the salvage yard, which was about five miles from the jail. Escapees: Suspected murderers Matthew Brandon Cook, left, and Kade Reaves Stringfellow, right, are on the run . Third inmate: Rodney Joe Green, 33, pictured, is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County home in February . 'The guys who were out there . searching were doing a systematic search and opened up the cab and there . the three of them were,' Parrott said, adding that all three were . wearing orange jail-issued shirts and pants but had lost their shoes. All three men had been jailed . awaiting trials. Cook and Stringfellow were facing murder charges in . separate cases, while Green was facing charges for allegedly shooting . and wounding a couple after breaking into their home. The men had walked to get to the . salvage yard just east of Poplar Bluff after escaping around 11:30 p.m. Monday through the ceiling of the Butler County Jail. Parrott said . authorities hadn't received a tip that the men were there. 'It was just, "Hey, where would you . go if you were on the run?" Someplace familiar,' Parrott said. 'We have . turned over every rock we could find in Poplar Bluff and southeast . Butler County today. And that was just one more place for us to go . look.' Parrott said the men were being interviewed, and he didn't have any information about new charges. Sheriff Mark Dobbs said the inmates . climbed through air ducts to get out. He blamed faulty building design - . walls that don’t extend all the way up to the ceiling - that he said he . and two previous sheriffs had tried to get fixed. Jail employees discovered that the . inmates were missing a short time after the escape, said Frank Casteel, . 911 director for Butler County. Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper . Clark Parrott said the patrol brought in airplanes to aid in the search . that extended as far as Little Rock, Ark. Jail: The trio had escaped through the ceiling of the Butler County Jail, pictured, in Poplar Bluff at around 11:30 p.m. on Monday . Cook, 29, is one of two men charged . with first-degree murder, robbery and other crimes in the February 19 . killing of Bernie, Missouri, man Sean Crow, 34, in a McDonald's parking . lot. Cook allegedly sent a text message to . the victim using the cellphone of a woman they both knew, asking Crow to . meet at the restaurant. Crow was found slumped over in his . pickup truck the next day, dead of a single shot to the head from a . .22-caliber pistol. Surveillance video helped lead police to Cook and a . man who was with him. Stringfellow, . 23, of Portageville, is charged with second-degree murder in the July . death of his infant son, Karson Stringfellow. According . to court documents, medical workers became suspicious due to the . child's injuries and inconsistent statements by Stringfellow, who . claimed he had slipped and fallen while holding his son. Missing: Staff at the jail, pictured, discovered that the inmates were missing a short time after the escape on Monday evening . Doctors . at St. Louis Children's Hospital determined the child had bleeding in . the brain and both eyes, and multiple fractured ribs and other injuries . that they believed were the result of abuse. Green, 33, is facing multiple charges for allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County home in February, holding a husband and wife at gunpoint, then shooting them after a struggle before getting away with their pickup truck. The man was struck in the thigh and his wife was shot in the hand. Both survived. Green was captured days later after a state trooper spotted him driving on a rural road and gave chase. The chase ended when Green's car struck a utility pole and a tree.
Missouri jail were found hiding on Tuesday in the cab of a truck at a salvage yard, authorities said. The trio - Matthew Brandon Cook, Kade Reaves Stringfellow and Rodney Joe Green - were incident, said Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman allegedly breaking into a rural Butler County into their home. The men had walked to get to the escaping around 11:30 p.m. Monday through the . 911 director for Butler County. Missouri State The trio had escaped through the ceiling of the Butler County Jail, pictured, in Poplar Bluff at in a McDonald's parking . lot. Cook allegedly man was struck in the thigh and his wife was shot