Police in Tennessee say 23-year-old inmate Kristopher Allen White was so thin that he was able to squeeze between his cell bars and escape the Haywood County Jail in the wee hours of the morning. The bars in the cell were approximately four and a half inches apart.
White, a suspect in a series of church burglaries, then used a blanket to get over the jail’s barbed wire fence. But as thin as White may be, he’s not invisible. After 14 hours on the run, the police caught up to him. Even his jailers were impressed by the escape.
“I still can’t picture that,” Sheriff Melvin Bond told WLBT-TV. ”It’s beyond my imagination to know how he succeeded in that.”
Before the escape, White was behind bars after initially being captured at the Mexican border.
