The capture last Friday
of fugitive bank robber and prison escapee Kenneth Conley brings to an
end one of the most entertaining and unbelievable crime stories in
recent memory. On Dec. 18, Conley and another bank robber named Joseph
“Jose” Banks escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center,
a high-rise jail in downtown Chicago. The two men squeezed through a
very thin window, then rappelled between 15 and 20 stories down the side
of the building using a rope made from towels and bedsheets. Once they
made it to the street, they hailed a cab and disappeared. Jail officials
didn’t discover their absence for hours, when guards arrived for the
morning shift and noticed an extremely long rope dangling down the
exterior walls.
I’m ready to proclaim this one of the best jailbreaks of the past few
decades, if not all time. It had everything you’d want from an escape:
A high element of risk. I would’ve liked to have
listened in on the conversations as Banks and Conley were planning this.
“OK, on the one hand, it’ll probably be cold and windy, and if our
flimsy homemade rope gives out, we will both plummet 15 stories to the
ground and die. Also, we’re right in downtown Chicago, and there will
probably be people around, who will probably notice two men climbing
down the walls of the local jail. On the other hand, I really hate the
food here … "
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