Seven convicts escape from Connally Unit in Kennedy, southeast of San Antonio, by overpowering civilian workers and prison employees. Flee with stolen clothing, pickup truck and 16 guns

Two fugitives suspected of stealing police radio scanners from suburban Houston Radio Shack

Convicts suspected of robbing sports store in Irving, near Dallas, and killing police Officer Aubrey Hawkins. The robbers escape with $70,000 in cash and checks, 25 weapons and clothing.

U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms charges the escapees with weapons violations. Autopsy shows that Hawkins was shot 11 times and was run over by a vehicle.

FBI agents in the Dallas area file separate federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid federal prosecution for capital murder, broadening the manhunt nationwide.

The Texas Board of Criminal Justice releases review of the escape, says prison staff missed critical opportunities to prevent the escape by ignoring a fire alarm, not reporting unsupervised inmates and not demanding proper identification from inmates.

Texas officials demote warden and suspend three other prison workers.

Four escapees arrested in Woodland Park, Colo.; one commits suicide

Last two convicts, Patrick Murphy, Jr., and Donald Keith Newbury, are captured after a six-hour standoff during which time they gave telephone interviews to a Colorado television station

A Dallas grand jury indicts the surviving six escapees of capital murder for the shooting death of Hawkins

Opening statements presented in ringleader George Rivas' trial

Rivas is convicted of capital murder

Raul Rodriguez, father of escapee Michael Rodriguez, is indicted for allegedly supplying the Texas Seven a getaway car. Included in the charges are aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery for the inmates offenses at the prison

Rivas is sentenced to death

Opening statements slated for the second of the Texas Seven to be tried, Donald Newbury