Twelve inmates have escaped from a prison in Alabama after using peanut butter to trick a guard into unlocking a door that led outside. The men fled the facility after using a peanut butter from jail sandwiches to change the number above an inmate’s cell to the number that identifies a door leading outside the jail.
All 12 of the fugitives who escaped on Sunday have since been recaptured. Eleven of the men were tracked down and returned to custody within 12 hours of the prison break, but the final escapee managed to evade authorities until Tuesday evening. Brady Andrew Kilpatrick, 24, was the only prisoner to make it out of the county, according to the local sheriff’s Facebook page.
According to the authorities, the county prison is now looking at ways of renumbering the doors “in a way that peanut butter won’t have any effect on them,” adding that the scheme to use the spread was “very smart thinking on their part”. The men who escaped on Sunday have convictions ranging from burglary and drugs charges to attempted murder.
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