Killer, Nude, Escapes From State Prison

Hundreds of officers searched for a killer who escaped from what is supposed to be Texas’ tightest prison and ran naked into a swampy area full of mosquitoes, snakes and poison ivy. Clifford Jones, 33, whose convictions include a murder in Dallas and attempted murder for shooting at a Dallas police officer, fled the high-security section of the prison system’s Estelle Unit, about 12 miles northeast of Huntsville. Jones scaled a 25-foot-high chain-link fence to the roof of the yard, then fell to another fence that covers a walkway and jumped eight feet to the ground. Jones kept running toward a creek bottom and took off his clothes and shoes, apparently to foil tracking dogs.