At the age of 19 Mark Defriest was sentenced to 4 years in prison.After 13 attempts to escape, the first conviction was extended to 35 years of jail cuz of many attempts to escape.
Mark Defriest early eighties of the last century was convicted to four years in prison because he usurped his father s valuable tools, after his death and before the reading of the will.The seemingly innocent crime led him behind bars that he could not endure, and after 13 escape attempts of which 7 of the were successful, the original sentence turned into a 35 year old that still counts in jail, and as many as 27 of these years spent in solitary confinement
Some details are difficult to remember, after all, he has been reluctant to workk in Florida State Prison, the story of Don Gladish. Well yes he remembers Mark Defriest very well.
Defriest is known as a prison Houdini, the man who led in serving the sentence and frustrating all those who ere responsible for it, for which he was awarded additional years in prison.He was an artist of escape, probably one of the most brilliant minds ever closed that i met,said today retired Gladish.He added that only a few prisons in the world so guarded that can hold Defriest, because it is necessary to be extra vigilant.
Well, now he is out of jail, is he not? asks Gladish?
Not really,Mark Defriest has now 56 and most of his life spent in prison of Florida.He always wanted to trick, outwit the system and he was very successfully done.He was so capable that he could remember the pattern and lock guardians keys and then he duplicated them on the paper, he was drafting weapons from materials that he found in prison, he was able to climb over the barbed wire.In one attempt he stole a car and broke into a friend apartment. I would like to describe Marks brain as a beautiful mind who finished on a very ugly place said Gabriel London,director of the documentary about him called
THE MIND OF MARK DEFRIEST
He drugged the gurdians with lsd.
They had lot of good metal bars impenetrable doors and all that shit.It occured to me that i can drug all guardians, the only way to do that was to came to the medical cabinet.I put them lsd in the coffe who has drunk the whole staff.It was very funny.
All details you can watch on the documentary about Mark Defriest.
Defriest is now in the Kern Valley jail, and he should be out until summer 2018.