ESCAPED MURDERER KILLS TWO BEFORE CAPTURE - THE ESCAPE OF CAPITAL MURDERER WILLIAMS - Government - http://www.maxpagesplus.com/darkevilworld/Escaped_Murderer_Part

In response to public outcry over how Williams could have escaped after he had only been confined for three weeks, and given the supposed head counts and other security in place, officials of course scrambled to make excuses. In order to give some knee-jerk explanation, ADC Spokeswoman Dina Tyler pointed out on the evening news that there are five mandatory head counts each day; that Williams had been confined at Cummins before and had become familiar with the unit then; that Sunday was a day when some guards are off duty and the prison is run by somewhat of a skeleton staff; that Sundays are particularly full of activity because of church call, visitation, chow call, and library call; and that construction was going on inside the compound and there were mounds of dirt which Williams "may" have used to hide himself.

Perhaps the implied excuses advanced by Tyler sound fairly reasonable and acceptable to the average citizens who knows no other details about Cummins prison life except what is spoon-fed to people on the news. Essentially, each of the "facts" asserted by Tyler are true in a vacuum, but they are a lie in the context of the Williams escape, for several reasons.

First and foremost, Williams could have left Cummins Unit the same day he arrived if he had been observant and had the inclination. He needed no prior experience at the Cummins Unit to find a means for escape. Virtually anyone could or can do the same simply because what is pawned off as prison security is in fact a joke, - as is amply demonstrated in the recent Herrington, Reynolds, and Bailey incidents.

Second, neither the piles of dirt nor the footprints in the dirt are any "clue" to how Williams may have left. Dozens of inmates have been working on the fence line for months and there are literally thousands of fresh tracks all over the area where Williams was hypothesized to have made his escape. That is precisely where the crews have been working for the past couple of weeks. Therefore, it would be impossible to have ascertained that any of those shoe prints belonged to Williams, and it is hollow indeed for the ADC to have drawn attention to such a totally immaterial and red herring "fact."

Third, the few piles of dirt that were being used by the construction crews also do not obstruct Security's view in any direction, and particularly not in the area of the fences. There is a clear field of view. Moreover, the buildings themselves - like the Chapel sanctuary - would have allowed Williams to get much closer to the fence than any of the mounds of dirt would have. The Chapel itself extends to within about 30 feet of the fence - but there is also an additional guard tower just outside the fence exactly at that position. The speculation that Williams used piles of dirt to his advantage has no substance whatsoever.

Fourth, the implied incriminating "lone bed sheet" found at the Chapel means absolutely nothing either, because there are many such sheets at the Chapel and most anywhere else for that matter. They are used as table cloths, as dust collectors, and as covers for lumber and equipment. The one seized had been used in a Chapel baptismal that morning and was hung outside briefly to dry. More, it is unclear what a single sheet found at the Chapel was supposed to mean in the first place. How is it relevant? How did the ADC officials make the quantum leap from a sheet found at the Chapel to Williams having used sheets to climb over the fence? Since the police and ADC staff interrogated several Chapel workers and other inmates Sunday night, there is no question at all that by Monday morning they knew that the sheet referred to in the news clip on Monday had been used in the baptismal. Again, the ADC was simply citing to some meaningless non-fact designed to manipulate a dumb public to accept a completely baseless conclusion.

Fifth, there is razor wire atop the fences so sharp and barbed that it snags and kills even birds that happen to stray into it. I suppose Williams took the time while he was on top of the fence - within 100 yards and in plain sight from both the West and North perimeter towers - to pick all the sheet fibers out of the wire so as not to leave any trace of his passing? He then apparently also carried the sheets with him and otherwise erased all clues except the footprints and the useless baptismal sheet he left behind in the Chapel. NOT finding sheet fibers or sheets on or outside the fence was just a little piece of "negative" evidence that certainly would not discount connection to the baptismal sheet, right?

No. Absolutely not. Williams did not climb over the fence. As the grapevine conveyed, he may well have strolled out the front gate by waving at the Armory Tower guard to let him out, and that is consistent with all the unexplained but known facts so far. However, if it is true, I doubt seriously that this would ever become known to the public.

In the sum, I think that the over-the-fence scenario comes from the good ol' boys having watched too many Sylvester Stallone escape movies, or because they believe that the public has seen too many of them and is consequently gullible enough to swallow the standard Hollywood script.

At around 1:00 p.m. on October 3, the body of Cecil Boren was found outside his home. He had apparently been robbed. Both his gun(s), pick-up truck and other property were missing. However, at that point it was not even known at the Cummins Unit that Williams had escaped. From the news reports it is also unclear whether Williams was already armed when he got to the Boren residence. The report stated that he shot and killed Cecil Boren first, then went in to ransack the house and change clothes. Unless Williams went inside the house and got one of Boren's own weapons first, something else is seriously amiss here. There is word that a suspicious character was seen near the Boren residence some time around 9:00, and that Pine Bluff residents later in the day called the Cummins Unit to ask why Williams was free and running about. He had apparently been spotted when he passed through there. If ADC officials were actually alerted to the possibility that someone had escaped and still did not check until 6:30 p.m. - well…., that would be typical.

Sixth, the over-the-fence scenario is most improbable because the weekend visitors are allowed to proceed into the Cummins unit proper at around 10:30 a.m. Up to that point, several cars of visitors are parked all along the road beginning exactly by and immediately across from where Williams is speculated to have climbed over the fence. Some visitors arrive to wait as early as 8:00 a.m. The visitors cars, then, would have been less than 150 yards away, with Williams in plain view to anyone who was parked there, and with virtually all the waiting visitors looking EXACTLY at that spot where he was to have crossed over. The visitors constantly look in that direction because inmates excited about getting a visit often wave to the waiting visitors from just outside the rear door of the main building in anticipation of them seeing each other at visits.

Seventh, beginning at about 9:30 a.m. an ADC vehicle and security staff is stationed exactly in line with the northwest corner, and that part of the fence is directly visible to them as well. A pedestrian in that area would immediately be noticed because the land is clear and flat and there is no one supposed to be walking in that area as a rule. In short, it is exceedingly unlikely that no one would have seen Williams climb over the fence beginning at least from about 9:00 a.m. or so. Of course, when the visitors' cars are parked along the road, they must check in with Security either when coming closer, or when leaving after visits have begun. The interiors of the vehicles are checked - and the trunks are checked. Williams did not get a ride from any of the visitors.

Eighth, if Williams actually did not leave until after 10:20 a.m. as Dina Tyler said, then he missed his chance to gain world class cross-country marathon titles in getting to the Boren residence. Assuming that Boren was actually killed at least some short time before his body was found, Williams would have had less than two and a half hours to run the distance - through plowed fields, vine-riddled groves, swamp land and all the delta flatland in between. Of course, there are dozens of cars accessible to an escapee just at Cummins and the nearby Varner Unit alone, but no car theft was reported. There are also many other residences that Williams could have broken into or robbed long before he got to the Borens' - if in fact he had been on foot.

Ninth, since no other vehicle was stolen in the area, it is also highly improbable that Williams simply hitched a ride after making it away, especially if he was still wearing prison clothes. Anyone in this area knows to beware of hitchhikers and that this is prison property. There are signs to that effect along the highway as well. Consequently, it seems most probable that Williams had some help - either with clothes, transportation, or both, and that is consistent with the inmate grapevine news. And again, it also makes unlikely that any accomplice was someone generally from the free world, simply because it then makes dropping him of short of Pine Bluff inexplicable.

Because it otherwise may explain some other curiosities, there is also the completely unconfirmed rumor among inmates and guards that Cecil Boren, who was also a former assistant warden here at Cummins many years ago, was killed because Williams was deliberately sent there to "take care of" of Boren in exchange for help with the escape. If Williams was armed prior to getting to the Boren residence this may turn out to be yet another infamous Arkansas good ol' boy cross-out.

In explaining how Williams could have been missed at one of the five mandatory head counts, Spokeswoman Tyler also stated that because of all the movement and activities on a Sunday, it would be next to impossible to count each and every individual head with total accuracy. The implication from her remarks was, of course, that counts had in fact taken place relative to Williams' escape, and that count at Cummins is much like horseshoes; good enough if it is only "close." NOT SO. There ARE in fact five mandatory counts each day - but the first one begins at 6:30 p.m., then at 10:00 p.m., 12:00 a.m., and 2:00 a.m. The last count of the cycle is at 6:30 a.m. In other words, for Tyler to even make reference to the head count relative to Williams' escape is an absolute red herring. No count took place any time during the day, so unless Williams had been informed upon, there is no way that officials could have known that he was gone until 6:30 p.m., when he was in fact noted missing. (Unless, of course, someone had in fact called from Pine Bluff only to be dismissed as mistaken) Furthermore, contrary to Tyler's commentary, count is NEVER given while inmates are milling about all over the place, as she implied. Inmates are required to stand by their beds or to be in their cells at count time. Those on special "out count" are confirmed by individual supervisors and are logged.

Last, it is true that there are several activities that occur on Sundays - like Chapel, chow, and Library call; as well as pill call, Gym call, and yard call, and several other calls. However, those calls go on every day, not just on Sundays. This routine activity bears no special relevance to Williams' escape and is just another effort to distract.

It is rumored that the ADC will now implement a mid-day count. A day late, and a dollar short. Moreover, had such a count existed all along, it would have done nothing to stop Cecil Boren's death because Williams' escape still occurred between the last morning count and long before mid-day, although it may have prevented the death in Missouri.

On October 4, 1999, Williams was engaged in a high speed chase in Urbana, Missouri, still driving Cecil Boren's truck. During the chase Williams eventually rammed into a police cruiser and then smashed into a utility vehicle occupied by a service worker, Michael Greenwood, 24, was killed instantly. Williams took flight again on foot but was soon apprehended. He now faces second degree murder charges in Missouri. Just as he had done with the family of Dominique Hurd, he again taunted the media and others with cold and malicious remarks about the two people that he had just killed.

Two people are dead for no good reason, and only because of the incompetence and unprofessional and untrained "officers" of the Arkansas Department of Correction. No matter what version of official facts are fed to the public in the end, there is little question that the bulk of the blame will be placed upon the inmates. If need be - some of them will be implicated in the escape even if they had nothing to do with it. "Unprovable suspicion" goes a long way around here.

The public should realize that a big reason why the ADC is still beleaguered with incompetence is because the good ol' boys have always been able to compensate for incompetence by covering up for each other. Now that their empire is being dismantled through an endless stream of indictments month by month, the criminal negligence and incompetence is more visible exactly for what it is. There will be no real change until those who ran this cesspool of sickness for the past two or three decades are all gone.

No matter what else happens, it is my hope that no one ever loses sight of the most implicating fact of all, no matter how Williams actually did escape: Three days after the fact ADC OFFICIALS HAVE NO IDEA HOW HE LEFT. How in the world can a maximum security prison be so full of POTENTIAL routes of escape that officials cannot even KNOW how or where an inmate left? I mean, in a maximum security setting there ought to at least be a way to reverse eliminate every way in which a prisoner could NOT have escaped - and thereby to know with some reasonable certainty the one or two ways in which he could have escaped. But, you see, that is not possible within the ADC simply because ADC security is such a joke that there are in fact dozens of ways any prisoner can leave from most of the units any time he wants. And, that is made possible by one fact alone: INCOMPETENCE and negligence of an unbelievable kind and degree.

John Q. Public can build a veritable Fort Knox here in terms of concrete, steel and high technology, and as long as most of the guards are from welfare lines, high school dropout cliques, gang banger clubs, and dope dealer headquarters, there are more tragic days and needless deaths ahead. Most of the guards here come to work to do little more than gossip on the duty phones all day long, have snack parties inside the security stations, stuff their faces with food throughout the day, and are "best pals" with select inmates like they are at a picnic social and belong to the same fraternity. Then again, maybe they in fact do belong to the same fraternity; a chapter of a local gang. There are other guards who come here only to catch up on sleep after partying all night long, or who still let inmates conduct head count of other prisoners because they are too lazy to get off their asses and walk around the barracks themselves. The public simply would not believe what is going on here, and, what is disclosed here in this article is little more than the proverbial tip of a giant iceberg. A real chilling iceberg.

There is also another side to this story about Kenneth Williams. SOMETHING made him as he was, and I suspect that having locked him up several times before and having treated him like an animal, has something to do with the animal that he in fact became. When he was here before, he could have been sent to school, he could have been taught a skill or trade - he could have been treated well but firmly by someone other than guards and administrators that themselves are little more than social rejects. Instead, he was assigned to take care of prison slop. Although he committed unspeakable crimes even before he escaped - THIS TIME - he was only 20 years old and had a lifetime in which he COULD have changed, even in prison. There was a CHANCE. Now, there is no chance at all - and two more people had to die just so that he could be thrown completely away.

I hope that the families of Cecil Boren in Arkansas, and of Michael Greenwood in Missouri, file suit and thereby force the ADC to begin to hire, train, and assign competent security staff. I hope that people who have concerns about new prisons to be built in their communities renew their efforts to stop them. They have no idea what kind of time bomb and nightmare they are inviting into their back yards.

They say Williams was the first in Arkansas history to escape and to kill citizens. That may be so, but with the present degree of incompetence of ADC staff, he will not be the last.

Most of all I hope that Governor Huckabee stops the useless hoe squads. They are utter wastes of money and resources and have no practical farming or agricultural purpose whatsoever. They exist solely to allow Arkansas to maintain some asinine slave image for the sake of proving to the world that Arkansas is "tough on crime and criminals." There are dozens of hoe squad riders that are well-trained, security-minded, and competent officers who are sent to the fields five days a week to play cowboy on horseback, while Rome burns. They are members of the SWAT teams, and Riot Squads and Shakedown crews…when they are not out making sure that the grass gets knocked flat by convicts with hoes. Had THEY been assigned to do a real job with security of the prison, had THEY been sent to man the towers and exit points, had THEY been given assignments in the hallways and barracks, Williams likely would never have made it and two more people would not then be dead. Alabama, too, was one of those twisted southern hate and prejudice states in which the citizens at large, like here in Arkansas have such a poor self-image and suffer so greatly from an inferiority complex that they abuse other human beings solely to make themselves feel a little better. What a tragedy. However, when economic reality set in, Alabama discontinued the chain gangs again after only four years because they needed the 400 officers assigned to watch over inmates whacking grass flat in the prisons proper. It is a marvel what the almighty dollar causes, is it not?

**Rolf Kaestel #76786 - Cummins Prison - October 6, 1999**

Escape Update

Today is Halloween, and as of two weeks ago the Williams escape was sent into the media void, immediately on the heels of the counterfeiting and forgery scandal last month, and the near rape in the Reynolds incident in the armed tower. We were able to send a copy of this article to the Boren family after they stated on the news that they did not believe the ADC's assertion that Williams escaped in the slop wagon, because the clothes he had left behind at their home neither looked nor smelled like they had been soaked in slop. Dina Tyler insisted that the Cummins slop is comprised merely of vegetables to which a little water is added, and that this would not have stained Williams' clothes. What hokey. The fact that they found it necessary to lie about this speaks volumes all in itself.

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