In the late evening hours of July 25, 1982, a brazen escape attempt unfolded at the Rocky Butte Jail in Portland, Oregon, forever altering the life of Multnomah County Sheriff's Deputy Irving Lawrence Burkett, a man then in his early sixties. What began as a seemingly ordinary shift for the 14-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office would end in a violent confrontation that set in motion a chain of events culminating in his death over two decades later.
The incident was initiated by six inma
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