When the doors to the Walker County Jail opened and 12 inmates rushed out, it wasn't because of a malfunction. It was part of a daring escape plan...using peanut butter.
The 12 inmates who fled - including an attempted murderer - were over the prison's barbed wire in 10 minutes according to the county's Sheriff's Department, using blankets to protect their hands.
Next, the prisoners stripped out of their orange uniforms and fled in different directions. While some were caught at a nearby gas station, others were still on the run 8 hours later.
One of the escapees, 24-year-old Brady Andrew Kilpatrick, is still at large, and the Sheriff's Department warned Jasper, Alabama residents to keep their lights on and stay inside Monday night as the manhunt continued.
Kilpatrick is still at large as of Tuesday morning, and the world is still stunned that the prisoners only needed one thing to break out of jail: peanut butter.
Read all the details of their escape on the next page!
Walker County Sheriff James Underwood says the inmates "love" peanut butter, but not just because of the taste.
The inmates had actually been scraping the peanut butter off of their sandwiches and saving it for their unusual escape plan. The key to pulling it off: covering up the numbers above their cells.
On the day of the escape, 150 inmates were being looked after by a new guard. The prisoners smeared peanut butter - which matches the prison's walls - over their cell numbers, then called out to the guard to open their cells.
But the number they gave the guard wasn't for the cells at all. In fact, it opened the door leading out of the jail, and the inmates dashed out before the rookie could realize his mistake.
As Sheriff Underwood says, these inmates are "crazy like a fox." He adds that "this is one time we slipped up. I'm not going to make any excuses," but you have to admit the escape plan was actually pretty creative.
If you have any information about Brady Kilpatrick's whereabouts, the Sheriff's Department is offering a $500 reward.
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[H/T: NBC News]