Mystery surrounds inmate’s 11th and final escape 95 years ago, NC historians say

Mystery surrounds an inmate’s escape nearly 100 years after he broke free from a North Carolina prison, historians said.

“On July 10, 1930, Otto Wood made his final escape from Central Prison,” the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources wrote in a blog post. “To this day, no one knows how he did it.”

Wood, accused of murder and other crimes, was a “serial prison escapee” before his death at age 35, historians said…

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