The review says prison staff missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by ignoring a fire alarm, failing to report unsupervised inmates and failing to demand proper identification from inmates disguised as maintenance workers. Connally Unit warden Timothy Keith is reassigned and demoted. Two guards and an employee are reprimanded. America's Most Wanted airs a fourth segment about the escape. Officers arrest four of the escapees - Rivas, Rodriguez, Garcia and Halprin.
Harper commits suicide while barricaded in a recreational vehicle surrounded by authorities.
Murphy and Newbury have split from the group. Murphy and Newbury surrender at a Holiday Inn in Colorado Springs after their request for a television interview is granted. The six surviving escapees are indicted on capital murder charges by a Dallas County grand jury. Raul Rodriguez, the father of escapee Michael Rodriguez, and Raul Rodriguez's friend Patsy Gomez are arrested on charges of supplying the getaway car. A jury of six men and six women is seated for Rivas' trial.