By Elizabeth Chuck
NBC News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Two convicted killers who escaped from a Florida prison using falsified documents had access to a contraband cellphone behind bars, something that may provide a clue as to who helped secure their release.
Joseph Jenkins and Charles Walker, both 34, were mistakenly freed from the Franklin Correctional Institution in Carabelle, Fla., on Sept. 27 and Oct. 8, respectively, after bogus papers bearing the signatures of a judge and members of the State Attorney’s Office got through the Florida Department of Corrections and the Orange County Clerk of Courts.
Once the mistakes were realized, their early releases prompted a massive manhunt, which ended on Oct. 19 when the two men were arrested at the Coconut Grove Motor Inn in Panama City, Fla.
Full story: Escaped Florida inmates had a contraband cellphone in prison