 How did they discover they were missing? Routine head count. Here's where it gets interesting. They did it in the middle of the night, but you know, you know when you escape from jail, everybody knows this, you escape from jail, you're going to work up an appetite, right? So instead of booking it and getting the hell out of Dodge, or in this case, Newport News, Virginia, what do they do? They decide to stop off at a local IHOP.