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| Three flee jail in elaborate escape plot |
| By The Tennessean |
| Published: 06/21/2004 |
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It took 10 years for Metro detectives to catch William Clay Bohanan, accused of setting a fire in 1993 that killed two young children at their Hermitage home. Bohanan, 40, is free again, one of three inmates who escaped under the cover of night from the Metro Jail downtown yesterday. The escape was the first from the medium- and maximum-security jail built in the early 1980s. Sometime after the 11 p.m. check Saturday, the inmates left their special-needs cell by crawling through a grate and into the ceiling. They dropped into a mechanical room, pried open a vent and then slid out through an 8-inch-wide gap. One of the inmates has a prosthetic leg and another a prosthetic foot. After the inmates were found missing at 7 a.m. yesterday, Metro police officers went on high alert. Metro Police Sgt. Pat Postiglione, who works in the police homicide division, said that police were using a helicopter in the search. Some officers scanned the nearby Cumberland River. Police also dispatched officers to the homes of witnesses and relatives. All three were charged with violent crimes and are considered dangerous. Of significant concern to police is Bohanan, who was arrested last year, 10 years after the children's deaths. During his arrest in October, Bohanan was taken out of his duplex at 343-B Luna Drive in south Nashville. ''SWAT had to get him initially,'' Postiglione said yesterday. ''And even then, he had to be gassed out. This suggests he's a very violent individual.'' Karla Crocker, spokeswoman for the Davidson County Sheriff's Office, said yesterday that the escape would not have tripped any alarms inside the jail. There are no sensors or monitors along the inmates' route, she said. |
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