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Trooper andreesen arrests the driver who never left the scene. >> you better drop it! get down on the ground! down on the ground! >> you think you're there for 15 minutes, but you're only there for maybe five or six heartbeats. i mean, the whole thing was over what, in what, 8, 10, 13 seconds? it seemed like you were there forever because you're always wondering, what's going on? what's next? what's going to happen? >> as the troopers wait for backup to arrive, they begin to question the driver who seems perplexed by what just happened. listen closely as he describes how he met his passenger. ...

Trooper goins. >> i'm glad nothing happened to you, sir. >> it turns out the passenger is sidney byrd, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release. >> had nothing to lose. he wasn't going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is now on the scene, the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the team out there and dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath some leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yards away. >> years after the or...

>> it turns out the passenger is sidney byrd, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release. >> had nothing to lose. he wasn't going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is now on the scene, the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the horse team out there and dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath some leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yards away. >> years after the ordeal, troopers goins and andreesen recall the drama...

>> it turns out the passenger is sidney byrd, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release. >> had nothing to lose. he wasn't going back to alabama penitentiary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is now on the scene, the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls their horse team out there and their dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops, the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath some leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yards away. >> years after the ordeal, troopers goins and andreesen recall ...

>> backup is now on the scene, the manhunt for byrd is on. >> the county calls the team out there and dog team, and pretty quick, within an hour, an hour 15 minutes, hour and a half tops the smith county deputies have already caught him hidden underneath some leaves in a pasture less than a hundred yards away. >> years after the ordeal, troopers goins and andreesen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> i get that one round off right here. >> we had 30 minutes left of the shift when all this happened. >> i had gotten the camera put in the day before. it was one of those fluky thi...