In November 1961, Ray was placed in solitary confinement having attempted an escape again. But, he knew he would escape one day. Each day the prison’s bakery would bake enough bread to feed the convicts in the prison and those at Church Farm and Renz Farm. The bread was stacked in a large box, loaded onto a truck and hauled to the farms. The bread box would pass through the heavily guarded truck tunnel, yet the guards never opened the bread box.Inmates assigned to work in the kitchen figured a man could get in the bread box, have a tray of bread placed on top of him, and pass right out of the prison. James Earl Ray heard about this possibility. In spite of the risk of being shot, Ray walked up to the bread box, got in, and asked a guy to cover him. Soon enough, Ray was outside the prison walls. This time for good. Unfortunately, James Earl Ray was an escapee when he shot and killed Martin Luther King, Jr.