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Befuddling Prison Escape: Just Walk Out of It

In 1995, one of the most befuddling prison breaks ever occurred. Keith Rose, Andrew Rodger and Matthew Williams worked together to make a 25-foot steel ladder to scale the prison fence. While working in the prison’s sheet metal shop, the three fashioned a gun and a key that, as far as guards know, was carved from memory after one of the three had just seen a prison’s officer’s copy. At the end of their gym time, the three waited until the guards were busy, unlocked the back door and walked out. They then cut a hole into the inner fence and scaled the outer fence with their ladder. All this work was done in vein though, as they were caught four day later, hiding in a shed.