• Who had their wife airlift them out of a prison by helicopter?
What happened to the men who escaped from Alcatraz on a raft made of raincoats?
Today we look at 10 of the most daring prison escapes in history.
10 – John Dillinger • Nobody knows for sure what infamous gangster
John Dillinger's gun was made of when he escaped from the "escape-proof" prison
in Crown Point, Indiana.
• The local deputy claimed that it was a real pistol somehow smuggled to him.
But the FBI believes he carved a fake gun from a potato and painted it black.
• However he did it, Dillinger escaped from an "escape-proof" prison that had its
security beefed up specifically to hold him… and he drove away in the sheriff's truck.
9 – Michel Vaujour • This French inmate had escaped from prison
three times already on an 18-year armed robbery charge.
But the fourth is the one he's remembered for.
• His wife, Nadine, flew a helicopter to the prison, airlifted him right out of the
prison yard, and landed them a few miles away in an empty soccer field, where they had a
car waiting.
• Michel's charmed life continued when he later survived being shot in the head during
a botched bank robbery.
8 – Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman • This famed Mexican druglord escaped from
prison twice – though there was a hoax article that suggested he'd escaped a third.
• The thing is, though, Guzman himself didn't do the majority of the work on his own breakout.
His associates used some strategic payoffs and a mile-long tunnel dug right up to his
shower stall to get him out.
• It's not certain if he used the minecart on the tracks built in the tunnel, or the
custom motorcycle left in there…
BUT THOSE WERE BOTH OPTIONS.
7 – Ted Bundy • The infamous serial killer escaped from
the law twice in his criminal career.
The first time, he jumped out the window of an Aspen, Colorado courthouse.
• He was allowed into the courthouse's law library unsupervised because he was acting
as his own attorney, and he just left.
• The second time was after he'd been convicted and jailed for his serial murder
spree – the first time he was only up for assault and kidnapping.
• On December 30, 1977, Bundy took advantage of reduced holiday staffing to saw through
the prison ceiling and used the crawlspace between floors to come up into the head jailer's
office.
• The head jailer was out that day, so he raided the office for civilian clothes and
supplies, and just walked out the front door uncontested.
His escape wasn't even discovered until the next day.
6 – Choi Gap-Bok • This 50-year-old South Korean man had
spent about half his life practicing yoga.
And apparently after all that time, it actually made him Dhalsim.
• Arrested and held on suspicion of robbery, Choi Gap-Bok waited until all three supervising
officers were asleep, and then he covered himself in lotion and slipped his entire body
through the food slot of his cell door.
• Now, sure, this guy stood about 5-foot-4, and is a pretty small guy.
But the food slot is about 6 inches tall by 18 inches wide.
And he slipped himself through in 34 seconds flat.
5 – Frank Abagnale • The subject of the movie "Catch Me If
You Can" spent the early part of his life as a con artist, before serving a few years
in prison and going on to work for the U.S.
Government, which is a joke that writes itself.
• But one of Abagnale's greatest cons happened IN prison.
The U.S. Marshal delivering Abagnale to his Georgia prison forgot the prisoner commitment
papers, which opened the door for Abagnale to convince the guards he was an undercover
prison inspector.
• This led to him getting the highest-class treatment while he was in prison, and allowed
him to set up an escape plan with a friend of his posing as his FBI handler.
• With the guards believing that he was an undercover agent, and she was an FBI agent,
they eventually opened the doors for him and let him walk right out the gates, into her
car, and off to the nearest bus station.
4 – Frank Lee Morris • On the record, nobody truly escaped from
the island Alcatraz prison.
But there is one escape attempt that we don't truly know the resolution to.
• Frank Lee Morris and his accomplices set out to escape from "The Rock," with a
genius plan that involved escaping to the outside through ventilation shafts, then floating
to safety on a makeshift raft thrown together with raincoats, life preservers, and rubber
cement.
• What we know for sure is that Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin all
made it to the outside of the Alcatraz facility and set sail on their makeshift raft.
What we don't know is what happened next.
• The men were never found, and the official story is that the men drowned on the way to
shore.
But the Anglin family claims they made it out just fine, and may still be alive today.
3 – Charles Victor Thompson • When a guy is on death row, you'd think
security would be tight enough to prevent the guy from just walking out the front door
of the prison during a meeting with his lawyer.
• Yet that's exactly what happened, and all it took was a smuggled set of street clothes
and a crappy fake ID. Thompson flashed that fake ID – which said he was with the Attorney
General's office – to at least four different prison guards, and not one of them stopped
to check him.
• Luckily, he was apprehended three days later, because he decided to get shit-faced
drunk and call up his friends.
When the police asked him his name, he simply said, "You know who I am."
2 – Richard Lee McNair • This guy's early escapes were fairly
small-time and unremarkable, but there were several of them that led police on a number
of manhunts to get him back.
• Eventually he was considered too big a security risk to be held locally, and was
transferred to a federal prison in Louisiana.
• There, McNair managed to get himself a job in the prison's mailing facility, and
when the time was right, he bagged himself up and mailed himself out of the prison.
• He managed to avoid recapture for over a year before being apprehended in Canada.
He now lives in a Supermax prison in Colorado.
1 – The Sobibor Revolt • Most jailbreaks are cool to think about
because they're clever, but at the end of the day, it's hard to root for hardened
criminals escaping their punishments.
• The Sobibor Revolt is easy to feel good about, because the inmates were innocent,
and the prison guards were Nazis.
• Yeah.
It was THAT kind of prison.
And of about 550 prisoners kept there, roughly 400 escaped on October 14th, 1943.
• The prisoners isolated and killed about a dozen Nazi guards in one night with improvised
weapons, then cut communications and opened the gates during the confusion.
• More than half of those escapees were killed during the escape, but considering
the entire camp was about to be executed otherwise, those were still pretty good odds.
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