In the quiet early morning hours of February 28, 1982, in Dayton, Tennessee, a violent jailbreak shattered the calm at the Rhea County Jail, forever altering the life of Sergeant Bruce Owens. Owens, a 47-year-old Caucasian male, was on duty in the dispatcher's office when an inmate, identified as 32-year-old James Allen Smith, initiated a desperate escape. Armed with a Bic cigarette lighter fashioned to look like a weapon, Smith overpowered a jailer who was releasing another inmate for work.
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