Mark DeFriest is every prison guard's worst nightmare - an autistic savant able to memorize the design of a key hanging on an officer's belt just by looking at it before producing an exact replica in his cell.
Middleton said that in one incident, DeFriest duplicated the master key at Florida State Prison, the toughest in the state's system, and let out fellow inmates to roam around.
'He has a meticulous, disciplined, incredibly skilled mechanical mind that can pick up anything,' London said.
And that's precisely why he's been housed in jails for most of his life. Florida couldn't handle him, so they pay to house him elsewhere. Unfortunately, his multiple antics added years to his original four year sentence for "stealing" a deceased relative's tools before probate had cleared. This isn't a gang-banger or a bank robber.
