Two inmates, whose jailbreak has been compared to the 1994 film ‘The Shawshank Redemption, left a taunting note in their cell for police. Otis Blunt and Jose Espinosa escaped a New Jersey jail using a method that is reminiscent of the jailbreak in Shawshank Preemption. In the film an inmate, who is played by Tim Robbins, chips a hole through his cell wall and hides it by putting a poster of Rita Hayworth over it.
Blunt and Espinosa’s escape was very similar. Police say the two men carved a hole through one of their cell walls and crawled through it. Blunt used a metal wire to scrape away mortar from around a cinder block in the wall. He crawled through to Espinosa’s cell where another hole was carved in the outer wall. Pieces of the cinder blocks were hid in a footlocker.
Pictures of Bikini clad women were hung over the holes. After the inmates were out of the hole, authorities say they jumped down to a roof top before having to make it over a razor wire fence. Once over the fence, they were free. Police found two sets of footprints going opposite directions in the snow.
They placed dummies in their beds to deceive police. They also left a note, which authorities say shows the “arrogance of these two men.” The note read, “Thank you officer ----- for the tools needed, you’re a real pal, Happy Holidays.”
Espinosa, 20, and Blunt, 32, went missing on Saturday around 5:15 p.m. They have not been found and police consider them armed and dangerous.
Union County prosecutor Ted Romankow says he doesn’t like to compare the escape to Shawshank Redemption. “I think this is a very serious situation you saw. I really prefer not to compare it any movie, although I can understand why you might, because it does look certainly very similar to some of them. Except in ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ they had a better poster,” he said.
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