Notable local jail breaks
Monday, March 25, 2013
Nov. 23, 1992: Two inmates -- Michael Davis, 21, of Cape Girardeau and Larry Daniels, 28, of New Madrid, Mo. -- escaped the Stoddard County Jail by unscrewing a door handle to an evidence room and sliding a wire through the hole. They used the wire to knock pistols off a table and drag the weapons to them. They threatened a jailer with the pistols and escaped in his truck. They were captured six hours later.
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