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Shawshank Redemption-Like Escape No Longer Funny
January 4th, 2008
I heavily mocked and scoffed at the jail allowing this escape; but the latest turn in this case – not so funny.
From The Timesonline
January 4, 2008
Jailer kills himself after ‘Shawshank’ escape
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A prison guard in New Jersey has killed himself after two inmates who escaped left a note thanking him for his help.
Rudolph Zurick, 40, shot himself in the head at his home on Wednesday only hours before he was due to be questioned by investigators about the jailbreak, which has been compared to the one inThe Shawshank Redemption…
Neighbours and friends suggested, however, that the investigation had been weighing on Mr Zurick’s mind and described him as visibly upset. “I saw him two days ago,” one neighbour told theNew York Post. “He was looking really sad. I said to him, ‘Hang in there. It’s not your fault’. He said, ‘They are going to say it is’.”
They said that the prison guard lost his father two years ago and his mother also died recently. The family did not put up their usual Christmas lights at their home this year.
Mr Zurick, described as a “by-the-book” warder and champion weight-lifter, shot himself with his own private semi-automatic pistol in the basement of the home in Sayreville he shared with his wife, Lisa, and their four-year-old daughter, Nina. Blunt and Espinosa remain at large and are to be featured tomorrow on the television show America’s Most Wanted.
The two left behind a mocking note reading: “Thank you Officer Zurick for the tools needed. You’re a real pal. Happy holidays.” It was signed with a Smiley face and a drawing of a hand with a raised middle finger. The escape was not discovered immediately because the two inmates left dummies made out of bedsheets in their bunks as decoys. It was Mr Zurick who first noticed that they were missing and reported their disappearance at 5pm.
Theodore Romankov, the local prosecutor, has emphasised since the escape that investigators believe the note was intended simply to mock Mr Zurick, a guard at the jail for 15 year
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Hmmm, there must have been a little something else going on here. He probably didn’t mean for them to escape but he must have been in cahoots with them in some kind illegal or improper activities to kill himself over it. If there’s no fire to the smoke I doubt he’d kill himself over just an empty accusation.
Whatever the reason, too bad he felt he had to go; especially with a toddler left behind.
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How sad. Perhaps he was still distraught over the recent loss of his parents and this was the “straw” to tip him over the edge. RIP
Perhaps AJ.
I read about this, it is so awful. You never know what all is going through people’s heads. It is so unfortunate that he felt that this was the only resolution. God bless his soul.
“It is so unfortunate that he felt that this was the only resolution.”
True dat!
I wonder what the deal was. They said on the note that he smile all the time. Was he smiling because he knew what they were doing but chose to do nothing, we will never no.
It sound like he has had a lot happen and had been depressed. I don’t think he killed himself because he felt like he helped the convicts escape. I think he just had a bad year, and his job may have been the last straw of something going awry.
I agree that there is something more to this story regarding that guard. He did not just up and kill himself simply b/c they implicated him. Whatever it was, he felt it bad enough to do away with himself, which is really sad.
Ann, I think they were saying that he was a cheerful person, not that he smiled only while those prisoners were there.