Here's something right up RCM's alley. The NYT had a metalworking
teacher test 6 different tools that the escapees might have used:

http://tinyurl.com/p9h5dqv

(in deference to those who want full URLs

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...T.nav=top-news

I had bet on a Milwaukee Sawzall. It won. It looks like the exact same
setup I used to cut through the 90-year-old cast iron drain pipes in
my house.

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Ed Huntress