Context Free Press

Three Escape From Wittenberg State Penitentiary

By Miguel Mahoney
Context Free Press Writer

Wittenberg, WI --- Three convicted criminals, including one man scheduled for release just two weeks later, broke out of police custody just before a planned facility inspection by digging a forty-five foot tunnel under a high-security wall and then making a getaway through an entrance recently created for delivery vans, an FBI investigator announced today.

Sheriff John Mcdonald said the escapees were John Jaeger, 25; William Vaughn, 30; and Mark Ries, 22.

"We've got a lot of leads. They're probably still in the area," Mcdonald said. "This could be a bad one. Mark Ries is not going to hesitate to harm people who get in his way. We're going to be following up on leads on all of these guys."

Posted by CFPNews at July 23, 2004 08:57 PM