Ty Conn
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Tyrone Williams "Ty" Conn is the only person in the last four decades to escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, one of Canada's most secure and notorious prisons. An inmate managed to escape the facility while hiding under a truck in 1962. Research has shown that Conn's escape from inside the compound was the 26th in the history of facility. More than 50 escapees were involved in those 26 incidents. Conn employed a ladder and homemade grappling hook to scale the wall and used cayenne pepper to prevent dogs from following his scent.
A bank robber, Conn had already escaped from several lower-security institutions. Conn escaped the prison on May 6, 1999. He was found in Toronto two weeks later and surrounded by police, only to commit suicide rather than being captured. Other theories believe that the stolen shotgun in his possession misfired during the standoff while he was speaking on the telephone to a Producer Theresa Burke from the CBC with whom he was in love.