The name “brushy” is fitting for a rural area thick with undergrowth, briars and hidden obstacles that inflict cuts, bruises and falls. Ray himself traveled only 8 miles in a little over two days, a detail that made one local long-distance runner, Gary Cantrell, think to himself that he could make it 100 miles in that amount of time.Īnd thus the seed of the Barkley Marathons was planted.Ĭantrell, whose nickname is “Lazarus Lake,” or “Laz” as he is known by everyone, was further inspired to start his own race by this rugged land he knew so well. Cold, hunger and disorientation brought them to their knees, and their own fiction-worthy plot turned from “The Great Escape” to “Blair Witch Project.” All were recaptured within days, though “rescued” is probably the better description.
Hannibal Lecter negotiates a transfer to the prison.īrushy was also nearly impossible to escape, but Ray managed it with the help of six other convicts in 1977. In the novel “The Silence of the Lambs,” Dr.
In its day, it was considered one of the toughest state prisons, where inmates frequently killed each other. He pleaded guilty to avoid a jury trial and the death penalty, was sentenced to 99 years and sent to Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in eastern Tennessee, surrounded by thick wooded hills. He was eventually caught at London’s Heathrow Airport. Over the next two months, while on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives List, Ray was on the run, traveling to Europe on a false passport. While King stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel (now a museum for peace), Ray accomplished his sinister goal with a single shot from more than 200 feet away. The civil rights leader was there to energize a strike of sanitation workers asking for better working conditions and higher pay.
Fifty years ago, a career criminal named James Earl Ray traveled from Atlanta to Memphis, stalking the Rev.
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