Convicted murderer Richard Lee McNair escaped a lot. In 1988, shortly after being arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder and a robbery, McNair bolted from the police station. He was recaptured a few hours later. McNair then slipped his handcuffs and ran again, only to be re-recaptured after a short chase. After he was sentenced to a double-life sentence plus 30 years, McNair escaped from the North Dakota State Penitentiary by slipping through an air duct. After ten months of freedom, McNair was re-recaptured and eventually sent to a maximum security prison in Pollock, Louisiana, where he stayed until 2006.
McNair worked repairing damaged mail bags that were then loaded onto a pallet, shrink-wrapped, and taken out of the prison by forklift. It gave him a mad idea: McNair spent months building an “escape pod,” complete with air hose, that he put under the mailbags and crawled into. He was forklifted out of the secure area of the prison, cut himself free, and walked. After nearly two years of freedom, McNair was re-re-recaptured in Canada and extradited back to the US. He’s now held in a Supermax prison in Florence, CO, presumably plotting his escape.
The lesson: Think outside the box.
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