That name entered the county’s lexicon for the first time back in May.

Reports of a fugitive driving through the Youngsville area resulted in heightened police activity and lockouts at Youngsville schools.

Earlier that day, officers were called to a William St. address in Jamestown, NY, where a woman – Kala M. Hodgkin — had been found deceased.

Chautauqua County officials were looking to speak with Burham in connection with that incident.

Photo from ABC World News Tonight ABC World News Tonight picked up and broadcast Times Observer reporting in the midst of the manhunt for Michael Burham.

This would make the first — but not the last — that Burham would be on the run.

About 10 days after the initial incident, Burham was charged with kidnapping and related charges in Warren County.

He has since pleaded guilty to charges in that case where he kidnapped a Sheffield couple at gunpoint, stole their car and drove all three of them to South Carolina. Burham ultimately let the couple go in a cemetery.

Authorities believed he staked out this couple for some time before he kidnapped them.

Troopers conclude that Burham “was staying on the property or nearby and had been watching the residence… for approximately one week.” Evidence including a tarp, camouflage clothing and water bottles not belonging to the victims were “located in close proximity to the residence,” troopers allege.

Eleven separate police agencies, including the FBI and U.S. Marshals, searched an expansive wooded area in

South Carolina.

According to news releases by the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office, deputies found the person described by the concerned citizen. The man gave deputies a false name and ran away. Deputies were unable to catch him, but the person dropped a bookbag that contained items confirming Burham’s identity.

He was apprehended just a day or two after that encounter.

Extradition took some time and Burham wasn’t brought back to Warren County to face the kidnapping charges until mid-June.

Fast forward about three weeks to a Thursday night in early July.

That’s when Burham became the first person to successfully escape the county jail in its decades-long history.

Burham was in the rec yard, climbed on top of exercise equipment and was able to shimmy out a hole in the chain-link fence that covered the yard. He then used a series of bed sheets tied together into a rop to repel down the side of the courthouse.

And then he fled.

City police were on the scene within minutes but weren’t able to find him.

That kicked off what turned into a 10 day manhunt that saw all many the national news networks — CNN, NBC, Fox News, ABC news, NewsNation — descend on Warren County to cover the emerging story.

Pennsylvania State Police took control of the investigation over the weekend after the escape and led the effort that saw hundreds of law enforcement officials — local, state and federal — descend on Warren County to participate in the search.

From the beginning, investigators believed that Burham was still in the area.

They were right.

Burham was found mere miles from where he escaped by Tucker, Ron and Cindy Ecklund’s chocolate lab-mix.

“We’re just really grateful,” Gov. Josh Shapiro told the couple when he stopped at their home.

He brought with him $10,000 of the reward pot that had been put forward for Burham’s arrest.

“You deserve every penny of it,” he said.

It goes without saying that Burham was not returned to the county jail when he was apprehended. He’s been at the Erie County Prison since that day.

He pleaded guilty in connection with the escape and kidnapping incidents back in Nov. He has yet to be charged in connection with the Jamestown, N.Y. homicide.

So where does the story go from here?

The county commissioners undertook both internal and external reviews of the jail and approached a contract in October that would correct the defect that Burham was able to exploit.

County officials are looking for “roofing material to be placed over the steel beams and secured for security, allowing fresh air into the yard,” the proposal’s scope of work detailed.

“The county would prefer it replaced with a metal mesh that would both allow airflow and prevent objects from passing through the membrane,” the RFP states.

Kathy Rapp was among the co-sponsors on a five-bill package aimed at addressing jail safety and infrastructure improvements more generally.

The bills include strengthening consequences for those who escape or attempt to escape from county jails, additional funding for local jails, a review of jail practices when an escape happens, a bill allowing local jails to hire off-duty correctional officers from other areas if a county jail is short-staffed and improvements to public notification when an inmate escapes from jail.

As for Burham, law enforcement sources told the Times Observer that Burham is set to be sentenced on Jan. 5.