Escaped psychiatric patient and murder suspect is recaptured near his parents' home two days after breaking out of hospital 300 miles away

An escaped psychiatric patient ruled too mentally ill to face charges of torturing a woman to death has been recaptured near his parents' house in Washington state, police said.

Anthony Garver, 28, who crawled out the window of a low-security unit at Western State Hospital on Wednesday was recaptured near Mount Spokane on Friday night, more than 300 miles away.

Garver was charged in 2013 with tying a 20-year-old woman to her bed with electrical cables, stabbing her 24 times in the chest and then slashing her throat but was ruled unfit to stand trial.

Police recaptured Anthony Garver, 28, on Friday night, two days after he broke out of a psychiatric hospital in Washington before traveling more than 300 miles on a Greyhound bus to see his parents

Garver (pictured at  Western State Hospital, near Seattle) was arrested in 2013 for trying a 20-year-old woman to her bed, stabbing her 24 times and slitting her throat but was ruled unfit to stand trial

Police hunting for Garver with helicopters and dogs had warned Washington residents that he was 'dangerous to others and should not be approached.'

Garver escaped from a locked room at the hospital with fellow patient Mark Alexander Adams, 58, before the pair split and Adams was quickly recaptured.

Meanwhile Garver is believed to have used $55 he had to buy a Greyhound ticket to Spokane, where his parents still live.

His father called officers on Thursday to report that his son has stopped by but left again a short time later.

Eventually Spokane County deputies and U.S marshals found Garver at 8:15 p.m. dehydrated and hiding beneath a pile of debris east of his parents home The Spokesman Review reports. 

The escape was the latest problem for Western State Hospital, where violent assaults on both staff and patients have led to federal scrutiny. 

It has increased in the wake of the escape and two recent attacks.

Garver crawled out of the window of a locked low-security room at the hospital along with Mark Alexander Adams, 58 (pictured) before the pair split up

Adams boarded a city bus (pictured left and right) and was quickly recaptured by officers, while Garver boarded a Greyhound before traveling to see his parents in Spokane

U.S. regulators have repeatedly cited the facility over safety concerns and threatened to cut millions in federal funding. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services gave the hospital until May 3 to address the violations.

Patients in the hospital's lower-security unit are checked every hour, said Carla Reyes, assistant director of the Department of Social and Health Services' Behavioral Health Administration, which oversees mental health services in the state.

Some high-security units require patient checks every 15 minutes, but Garver was not placed in one, staffers said. Security staff was trying to determine how the men loosened the bolts on the locked windows, state officials said.

Officials are conducting a safety review of the hospital and will bring in outside experts to help, Reyes said.

The history of violence at the facility stretches back years. Hundreds of employees have suffered concussions, fractures and cuts in assaults by patients, resulting in $6 million in workers' compensation claims between 2013 and 2015. 

Patients also have attacked other patients, causing serious injuries.

Spokane sheriff's deputies and National Guard were deployed in the hunt for Garver who was eventually discovered dehydrated and hiding under a pile of debris near his parents' house

The escape is just the latest scandal to hit  Western State Hospital where fights between inmates, staff and other inmates have caused the government to threaten to withdraw millions of dollars in funding

Most recently, a patient with a history of violent behavior choked and punched a mental health technician on March 26, according to an internal report. 

Another report on March 23 said a male patient slipped out of his monitors and was found in a bathroom with another male patient, who said he was sexually assaulted.

The state has tried to fix some of the problems by increasing funding so more staff could be hired. But the hospital has struggled with recruiting and retaining workers.