Jack Allen also pleaded guilty as a second-felony offender to two counts of third-degree burglary, which will satisfy charges pending against him in Oneida County, which is where he fled after stealing in his aunt’s car.

A combined sentencing of 5 to 10 years for those two charges would run consecutive to each other but concurrent to the Franklin County prison term.

He robbed two convenience stores, broke into other businesses and committed other minor crimes before the manhunt ended in his arrest.

Authorities had expanded their search into Canada because Allen’s estranged wife and three children live in Nepean, Ontario.

He told authorities he is flagged as unable to enter Canada by land, but he had thought about buying a rubber raft and crossing the St. Lawrence River to get there.

Allen, 37, had lived alone at the Powers Road home with his aunt by marriage since the end of September. He told State Police investigators that he and Mary had begun an intimate relationship within a short time.

He said the two of them were drinking vodka on Friday, Oct. 12, about 7:30 p.m. when they reignited an argument they had about her on-again, off-again relationship with her estranged husband, Timothy, who is Jack Allen’s uncle.

In a four-page statement to Oneida-based State Police, Allen said, “I was just sick and tired of the mind games. If she wanted to go back with him, she should just be honest and stop jerking my chain.”

As things cooled down, she went to watch TV on the couch.

But Allen said he was still fuming, thinking how he had been played as a fool.

“I ended up getting really pissed. I grabbed a glass pitcher from the counter. I went over to the couch where Aunt Mary was laying. I came right up behind her.

“She was still awake. She was not looking at me. She was watching TV. I hit Aunt Mary in the forehead with the pitcher. I was holding it by the handle, and I hit her with the bottom of it.

“I remember that I hit her three times with the pitcher, and then I went back into the kitchen and sat down at the table. After I hit Mary, she was still breathing.”

The telephone rang, and he talked briefly with the woman calling from Pennsylvania.

“After that phone conversation, I could still hear Aunt Mary breathing. I don’t know if I hit her again. I remember that I was thinking about hitting her with the rolling pin, but I can’t remember if I actually did hit her with it.