Lexington police released a surveillance video showing a March theft at Willcutt Guitars, and now the man seen in the video is behind bars.

The man allegedly responsible for stealing that guitar turned himself in Thursday night, and now police say that wasn’t the only guitar he’s taken.

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Police said he asked about the guitar’s price before running off with it minutes later.

After getting tips, police identified the suspect as Addison Horsley of Versailles.

Horsley turned himself in at police headquarters Thursday and the stolen guitar was recovered.

Police said Horsley also had stolen from the Guitar Center.

Horsley faces two counts of Theft by Unlawful Taking.

City and county fire crews are on the Kentucky River with emergency management looking for a missing man who may have fallen into the water behind Buffalo Trace.

The Franklin County Sheriff tells LEX 18 that a 26-year-old man was last seen in the area around midnight.

Officials have identified the man as Will Rawlings.

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He is a night watchman at Buffalo Trace and was off duty when he pulled his car down to the area behind the distillery to fish.

Rawlings’ family called authorities after he didn’t come home.

Emergency management tell LEX 18 that there are dogs on the boats to detect any scent.

We’re told that his parents lost a daughter in a car accident a couple of years ago. Relatives and friends have been with them during the search.

City and county fire crews are on the Kentucky River with emergency management looking for a missing man who may have fallen into the water behind Buffalo Trace.

The Franklin County Sheriff tells LEX 18 that a 26-year-old man was last seen in the area around midnight. He was known to walk the bank and fish off duty. His car was found in the area, but there was no sign of the missing man.

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Crews did find a flashlight in the water.

The man’s family called authorities after he didn’t come home.

Emergency management tells LEX 18 that there are dogs on the boats to detect any scent.

A Henry County, Ky., man, who was previously convicted of several child exploitation offenses, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.

On April 11, U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove sentenced Joseph David Martin, 43, for producing child pornography, distribution of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. Under federal law, Martin must serve at least 85 percent of his prison sentence.

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Martin was convicted of the offenses in 2016. The evidence at trial established that Martin had sexually exploited a teenager, repeatedly, starting when the victim was 13 years old. The evidence further established that Martin videotaped some of the sexual encounters.

Carlton S. Shier, IV, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Amy Hess, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Rick Sanders, Kentucky State Police Commissioner, jointly announced the sentence.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the KSP. Assistant U.S. Attorney David Marye prosecuted this case on behalf of the federal government.

Attorney General Andy Beshear today announced a guilty plea of an Oklahoma man charged with the kidnapping and murder of Francis Brady, of Bardstown, in 1991.

Under terms of a plea agreement with Beshear’s Office of Special Prosecutions, Michael Dale St. Clair, 60, pleaded guilty to kidnapping and was sentenced by Special Judge John David Seay in Hardin Circuit Court on April 12 to 30 years in prison.

St. Clair has been convicted several times since 1998 for both the murder and kidnapping of Brady. Both cases have been reversed on appeal several times.

St. Clair’s most recent sentence of death for the murder of Brady was affirmed by the Kentucky Supreme Court in 2015. He is currently on death row at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville.

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St. Clair’s kidnapping conviction was reversed in 2015, and was scheduled for a retrial May 8 in Hardin Circuit Court. St. Clair, however, took the plea deal April 12 on the kidnapping charge.

“This is a case the Attorney General’s Office has been working on for several years to bring justice for the victim and his family for all actions by St. Clair,” Beshear said. “While the court process has been lengthy, I want to thank the prosecutors in my office for their steadfast commitment to hold St. Clair accountable for his horrendous acts.”

In September 1991, St. Clair escaped from jail in Durant, Oklahoma while awaiting sentencing for several murders in Oklahoma. After escaping jail in Durant, St. Clair and another inmate drove a stolen truck to Texas where they took a bus to Denver.

In Denver the pair kidnapped a man and forced him to drive them back to Texas. The pair shot and killed the kidnapped man while in New Mexico on their way to back to Texas. (St. Clair was convicted of second-degree murder in New Mexico in 2014.)

The pair eventually arrived in Kentucky, and on Oct. 6, 1991, kidnapped a Bardstown man, Brady, in his truck at a rest stop off I-65 near Sonora in Hardin County. The pair drove to an isolated area near Lebanon Junction in Bullitt County, and shot and killed Brady.

As part of the April 12 plea agreement, St. Clair was sentenced to 20 years for the attempted murder of Kentucky State Trooper Herbert “Butch” Bennett, who St. Clair shot at after the KSP trooper stopped him and his partner in Brady’s stolen truck Oct. 7, 1991.

St. Clair also pleaded guilty in his April 12 plea agreement to two counts of receiving stolen property for the two pickup trucks – the stolen truck in Denver and Brady’s truck. Additionally St. Clair pleaded guilty to facilitation to arson 2nd degree for the burning of the stolen truck from Denver. He received a five-year sentence for each of those crimes.

Brady’s widow, Merle Brady, has been present for every previous trial. Merle Brady was unable to attend St. Clair’s guilty plea April 12, but she was consulted numerous times by prosecutors and Beshear’s Office of Victims Advocacy prior to the signing of the plea agreement.

Following the April 12 plea agreement on the kidnapping charge, St. Clair was returned to death row in Eddyville.

Law enforcement confirms that an active manhunt is underway in East Bernstadt.

Police confirm that a chase beginning on I-75 led to a crash and now authorities are combing the scene near 490. Two people were taken into custody after the crash. Two others remain on the run.

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East Bernstadt School is on a soft lockdown as the search continues. Instruction is continuing, but no one is leaving the building.

Use caution if you are in the area.

There is a class action lawsuit against the Saint Stephen’s Cemetery in Louisville involving missing bodies.

Death certificates and cemetery records state that Edna Butler Erdman was buried in the Saint Stephen’s Cemetery in 1951. For almost a year, her great-grandson, Jason Cockerill, has waited and watched as the cemetery searched for Erdman’s body. He says it is nowhere to be found.

“They have no idea where to even look for my great-grandmother,” said Cockerill. “They lifted my grandmother out, vault and all, put her on the back of a flatbed, and then started to dig for my great-grandmother and they didn’t find anything.”

Cockerill said that the family wanted to move both his great grandmother and grandmother closer to relatives, but when the digging began, they only found a single bone where his great grandmother’s remains were supposed to be and that didn’t even belong to Erdman.

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Cockerill said that an archaeologist told him that the bone belonged to a child who died before the 1900’s.

Cockerill said that the caretaker panicked, ordering staff to dig up surrounding graves. One of the surrounding graves was supposed to have a man inside but was empty.

Cockerill said that another relative of his was supposed to be buried in the cemetery, but the cemetery has no record of the plot.

He has filed reports with the police and the attorney general’s offices who say they are investigating.

“I really don’t see anything getting straightened out until they start digging up bodies and finding out who’s where in that cemetery,” said Cockerill.

The cemetery has not responded for comment.

The Cockerill family says they are not sure if they will join the pending class action lawsuit.