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Georgia fugitive lived among us

The farm where Eric Corbett lived under the false identity Jubal Burke. (U.S. District Court files.)
The farm where Eric Corbett lived under the false identity Jubal Burke. (U.S. District Court files.)

A man with a Southern accent and an odd name, Jubal Burke, moved to North Idaho some 17 years ago and embedded himself into the Elmira community.

Burke cut firewood, trimmed trees, built fences and tithed to the local church in the hamlet north of Sandpoint.

In 2015, he hand-scraped the logs for a wedding trellis under which he married Stacy White, the regional supervisor of child protective services for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. The couple spent most of their time on the Elmira farm, but they also lived some weekends in her house in Hayden.

But that simple life unraveled in September when federal agents raided the farm and unmasked Burke as Eric L. Corbett, a 45-year-old from Georgia who was convicted of felony witness tampering in Florida and vanished after he walked out of a federal prison in Mississippi in April 2000/Thomas Clouse, SR. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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