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This man's escape forced an entire state into lockdown. In 2004, a man named Silas Crane stood trial in Oregon for a trail of disappearances spanning almost 30 years. Between 1976 and 2003, more than 50 people vanished along isolated highways across the state. Surviving witnesses always described the same unsettling figure, extremely tall, painfully thin, and dressed in a dark suit. Drivers often saw him walking alone after midnight along empty stretches of road. Some stopped to offer help. Most were never seen again. Then in late 2003, a truck driver reported hitting something on a remote highway, but continued driving, believing it was an animal. The following morning, a gaunt man nearly seven feet tall arrived at a nearby hospital with a shattered arm. Police were contacted. Silas Crane was arrested, and investigators connected him to decades of missing person cases. He received life in prison. But in 2010, guards arrived for morning count and found his cell empty. There were no broken bars, no alarms, no signs of forced entry, only an empty bed and a faded comic poster on the wall. Behind it, officers discovered a narrow tunnel carved through solid concrete. Within minutes, the governor ordered a statewide lockdown. Schools closed. Highways were blocked, because if Silas was walking those roads again, eventually someone would stop for him.