Shawshank Redemption copycats caught.
Posted on January 10, 2008
The movie, “The Shawshank Redemption”, starred Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. Tim played the convict who hid the hole in his cell wall with posters of Raquel Welch and Rita Hayworth.
Jose Espinosa and Otis Blunt were two cell mates from the New Jersey prison who escaped by copying the methods used in the Hollywood movie, “The Shawshank Redemption.” They dug through the wall of their adjoining cells before escaping together on Dec. 15, 2007. They had used posters of beautiful bikini models to hide the entrances of their holes while they worked on them over the days. We had posted about this jailbreak here.
Federal and local officers caught Jose Espinosa hiding in a basement apartment about 6 blocks or a mile away from the jail in Elizabeth. He had a leg injury that was sustained during his jailbreak. Police were tipped off about his whereabouts and moved in.
Otis Blunt is on the left while Jose Espinosa is on the right.
This was one of their cells.
Otis Blunt was arrested separately in Mexico. He would be returned to New Jersey. The guard that was suspected of aiding the two prisoners committed suicide on Jan. 2, the day that he was supposed to be questioned about his involvement with them.
Source: Yahoo News
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