. . .WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Authorities launched a massive manhunt Saturday for a murder suspect who officials say escaped from jail by climbing 60 feet down a rope made of bedsheets.
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"How can something like this occur in this day and age, in the year 2003, where it seems that an inmate can simply pop a window out of the prison, climb out and run away?" District Attorney David Lupas said.
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Warden Gene Fischi said Selenski and another inmate broke a 12-by-18-inch cell window on the seventh floor and threw a mattress out. The other inmate fell but Selenski shimmed down the makeshift rope to a second-story roof and used the mattress to scale a razor-wire fence, Fischi said.
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Manhunt Continues for Pa. Murder Suspect
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"They were supposed to be escape-proof," Fischi said of the cells.
Hmmm - I guess NOT !!
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