i had just come from a war zone and my head was pretty screwed up, my whole world had just crashed in before me. i was over there, i was thinking maybe i would die, and to have her and my daughter die was just it totally screwed me up. and i guess i went a little bit ballistic, you know? a little bit insane. >> we first met michael king when he was in yard doing exercise, and by yard, i mean he was in a confined cage. he was doing a kind of a strange thing for an inmate. he was doing yoga. you see all of these other guys lifting weights, trying to build themselves up and he was doing a deliberate exercise, yoga. we found out his yoga played an incredible role in his story he told us later. >> i escaped from a secure compound in northeast correctional. i packed myself up in some boxes and shipped myself out.