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YAKIMA, Wash. -- A schizophrenic killer who was recaptured Sunday in Goldendale and brought here is now being taken back to a Spokane area hospital, authorities said.
This morning, a Yakima County Superior Court judge ordered 47-year-old Phillip Arnold Paul returned to Eastern State Hospital, an institution for the mentally ill.
“We really do want to get him back into the hospital and stabilized,” said Susan Arb, a senior deputy prosecuting attorney.
Paul had been at the hospital before escaping last week during a field trip to a county fair in Spokane. He was recaptured Sunday more than 180 miles away.
Paul was committed after he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and acquitted by reason of insanity in the slaying 78-year-old Ruth Mottley at her home outside Sunnyside in 1987.
-- Compiled from state and wire reports
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