By Jim Hannah
The Cincinnati Enquirer

BURLINGTON - A Petersburg man convicted last year of killing a Covington woman and dumping her body in the Ohio River will be sentenced next month for trying to escape from the Boone County jail.

Judge David Bunning will sentence Richard Adams Lambert June 14 in U.S. District Court in Covington.

Lambert and Douglas Williams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to aid in the escape of federal prisoner Clayton Lee Waagner on Feb. 13.

Waagner is the only person to simultaneously be on the Most Wanted lists of the U.S. Marshals, ATF and FBI.

He earned the distinction after escaping from a county jail in Illinois. Waagner was captured 10 months later at a Springdale Kinko's and locked up in the Boone County jail.

Waagner is awaiting sentencing in Philadelphia following his December conviction for mailing hundreds of hoax anthrax letters to abortion clinics during a violent 10-month crime spree while he was on the run. He is expected to receive a sentence of life, without the possibility of parole.

This month, Williams was sentenced to seven months in federal prison for his role in the foiled Boone County escape attempt.

Lambert faces up to 60 months in federal prison.

He is being held in a Kentucky state prison after his October conviction for reckless homicide for the death of Rebecca Ritchie of Covington.

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