A homemade shiv stashed behind a jail cell radiator. A scalpel tucked inside an air vent. A handcuff key hidden within the pages of a magazine. These are just some of the disturbing and dangerous ...

A man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 13-year-old girl nearly escaped his imprisonment after crafting two homemade keys. Michael McLellan, 39, pleaded guilty to the horrific crimes against North ...

Wilkins said Michael McLellan used a homemade handcuff key to take off the cuffs while being taken to Central Prison in Raleigh after being sentenced Friday morning. He added McLellan was able to ...

A convicted murderer from Los Angeles County may have used a makeshift key to shed his handcuffs and shackles ... Additional homemade keys may have also been found in Hernandez’s cell, he ...

They were caught three days later in Tennessee. During a court hearing Friday, the judge learned prison officials found a homemade handcuff key hidden in Dubose’s hair on Christmas Eve.

"(Department of Corrections) discovered that he had a homemade handcuff key on his person," Sills said he told Judge Alison Burleson in a security briefing preceding Dubose's appearance at the ...