On this day, Sept. 8, in 1978, serial killer Robert Garrow escaped and was shot dead three days later near the prison walls.
Garrow is believed to have killed four people and raped numerous children before he was convicted and sent to the Fishkill Correctional Facility in New York.
Although Garrow was partially paralyzed from an earlier police shooting, he was able to pry open jail bars and scale a fence topped with razor wire.
Three days later, a guard spotted Garrow and the killer fired a handgun that had been smuggled into prison in a box of fried chicken.
Police returned fire, and that was the end of Garrow.
— Scott McCabe
