Convicted Killer Bluffs His Way Out of Custody
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Authorities searched for a death row inmate who slipped off his handcuffs, changed into street clothes and bluffed his way out of the Harris County Jail by flashing a fake ID badge.
Charles Victor Thompson, 35, who was sentenced to die for killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend, got past at least four jail employees by claiming he worked for the Texas attorney general’s office.
Thompson had been transferred to the jail in Houston because an appeals court had ordered that he be resentenced. A jury issued a new death sentence Oct. 28, but Thompson was still waiting to be transferred back to death row.
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