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A Pennsylvania woman who was abducted by her husband was found dead in a barn -- and officers found the man near her with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said Tuesday.

State police and South Strabane officers surrounded the barn near where a car owned by the woman and her husband had been found, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  Authorities found the body of Tierne Ewing, 48, at around 11 p.m.

Crews rushed 47-year-old Kevin Ewing to the hospital. His condition was unclear. He was charged with kidnapping for the second time in mere months.

The husband had been free on bond while awaiting trial on charges he abducted and beat his wife while holding her captive for nearly two weeks earlier this summer when he allegedly kidnapped her again Tuesday.

Police said Ewing abducted his wife at gunpoint at around 12:30 a.m. from a West Finley house near the West Virginia border.

Ewing had been wearing an electronic ankle bracelet to confine him to his home since he posted $100,000 bail on the earlier charges July 11. According to county adult probation officials, such devices can be programmed to provide GPS information but only if the court orders that. That wasn't ordered in Ewing's case, so his bracelet merely sends out a signal to authorities if he's left the house, they said.

Ewing was accused earlier of keeping his wife captive from June 26 to July 8.

Tierne Ewing had told authorities he beat and pistol-whipped her, spat on her, kept her hands tied with wire and branded her legs with a piece of hot metal, according to charging documents. Kevin Ewing was charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment and other crimes.

Tierne Ewing had staples closing a cut on her head — a home remedy, not hospital-administered — that she told police was caused when her husband hit her with a wooden gun stock. She had also been locked in a closet, police said.

Tierne Ewing escaped when her husband sent her into a credit union to withdraw money and she told tellers she was being held against her will and feared that her husband would kill her, the complaint said.

Bank officials called police, who found Kevin Ewing in the parking lot with a rifle, handgun and a knife, the complaint said.

Washington County District Attorney Eugene Vittone said his office had asked a judge to keep Ewing in jail after he unexpectedly posted bail last month. Prosecutors were concerned because of the seriousness of the charges, Vittone said.

But the judge allowed Ewing to remain free at home with the ankle bracelet.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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