Grauman's dad: 'I feared for the worst'

ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) - "I feared for the worst," Kenneth Grauman Sr. said, "but it came out good."

His son, Kenneth Graumann II escaped from the Lake County Residential Reentry Program on Sept. 29 along with Gregory Bradshaw. They and their girlfriends from Allegan County - 17-year-old Brittany Rector and Laura Grauman (Kenneth's cousin) -- were arrested Thursday in Colorado after two weeks on the run.

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The elder Grauman said he was happy and relieved when he heard his son's escape ended without anyone being hurt. When he spoke with 24 Hour News 8 on Friday afternoon, he said he was expecting a phone call from his son - now in custody in Colorado.

He said he thinks his son got scared when someone at the Lake County facility told him he would be facing new charges and would be heading back to prison.

"I talked to him two weeks after he was there," he said. "He called me and told me, he said, 'I got to do 90 days, not 70,' and he said, 'That's not too bad and I'll be home for Christmas.' That doesn't sound like somebody who's going to run."

Dawn Morse, the mother of Laura Grauman, also expressed relief the cross-country chase was over. Meth, she said, turned her daughter from a generous person into an addict.

"She's going to do some time and that stinks, but she's alive," Morse said. "That's all I can say. Maybe if she does some time she will be away from the drugs, then maybe when she gets out she will be the Laura that was so cool."

Laura, she said, is in love with Bradshaw and would visit him in prison and go with him whenever he was out.