Fugitive On Child Sex Charges Evades Police For 3 Years In Solar-Powered Bunker

A fugitive wanted by police managed to evade capture for three years by hiding in a solar-powered bunker.

Jeremiah Button’s cover was eventually blown when hunter Thomas Nelson stumbled across his Wisconsin lair, which included a log door carved into an embankment and a pedal generator.

Nelson found the door unlatched and entered the bunker, discovering the 44-year-old, who had disappeared in February 2016, just weeks before he was due to stand trial for child sexual assault and child pornography charges.

He told WSAW-TV: “I pushed the door open, and I look inside and I can see canned foods, there’s little storage boxes, and I’m like … I gotta go in.