TOPEKA, Kan. — A convicted murderer and another inmate remained at large today after escaping from a Kansas jail where they’d been transferred because of overcrowding at a state prison.

Two others were caught one after he turned himself in at a Walmart in Nebraska.

Authorities acknowledged Wednesday night that they were not sure where Santos Carrera-Morales and Eric James, both 22, might be headed after their escape earlier that day from Ottawa County Jail in Minneapolis, a small town about 120 miles west of Topeka.

Carrera-Morales was convicted of first-degree murder in connection with two killings in 2007.

Two other inmates escaped from the jail with them about 4:45 a.m. Wednesday, but one was apprehended quickly.

Authorities said the other, Drew Wade, 21, was alone when he was arrested in North Platte, Neb., about 13 hours after the jail break. Wade had traveled in a stolen minivan to the Nebraska town, about 240 miles northwest of the Kansas jail, authorities said.

Wade told North Platte police that he had phoned his father, and that his father persuaded him to turn himself in.

“He walked into the local Walmart,” said police Sgt. Gary Hovey. “He approached the manager and asked him to call the police.”