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>> he told us 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 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...

Driver who never left the scene. >> you better drop it! get down on the ground! >> you think you're there for 15 minute, 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. >> i know that his cousin asked me to give him a rid...

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 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. >> ...

Sidney byrd, a career criminal who escaped prison while out on work release. >> he wasn't going back to alabama pen tennary. he wasn't going back to jail. >> backup is now on the scene and 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 leaves in a pasture less than 100 yards away. >> years after the ordeal troopers goin and andresen recall the dramatic events of that fateful night. >> i get that one round off right here...

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