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4. Escape from Alcatraz In June 1962, three prisoners of the notorious Alcatraz Island escaped and then mysteriously went missing. A plot devised by fellow prison Allen West saw Frank Morris, John Anglin and his brother Clarence spending two years digging an escape route through the cell walls and building a raft to sail to freedom. Dummies were placed in the three prisoners’ beds to fool the prison guards so it was not until the following morning that the guards discovered they had gone. Parts of the raft and life preservers were later found in the bay along with some of the prisoners’ personal effects, leading investigators to conclude that the men had drowned. The FBI officially closed the case on 31 December 1979, concluding that “no credible evidence emerged to suggest the men were still alive”. However, no bodies were ever discovered. |
5. Empress Matilda’s escape Empress MatildaIn the autumn of 1142, Empress Matilda was besieged in Oxford Castle by soldiers loyal to her cousin Stephen. A battle, labelled ‘The Anarchy’, was raging across the country for the crown of England. Stephen, grandson of William the Conqueror and Matilda, his cousin, both laid claim to the crown and took it in turns to lay siege to one another’s strongholds. The siege at Oxford Castle lasted for three months. Matilda’s epic escape came one freezing snowy night in December, when according to legend, she wrapped herself in a white cape and fled on makeshift ice skates across the ice to Wallingford Castle. A truce was decided to end the battle, with Matilda agreeing that Stephen could keep the throne as long as her son Henry became his heir. Suspiciously, Stephen died not long after this agreement was forged, allowing King Henry II to take the throne. |
6. Texas Seven A group of prisoners, dubbed the Texas Seven escaped from the John B. Connally Unit on 13 December 2000. An elaborate scheme devised by the group led to the group overpowering and restraining 16 people, including supervisors, officers and three uninvolved inmates. Once overpowered, clothing, credit cards and ID were taken from the victims and used to impersonate civilians at the back gate of the prison. Four of the offenders stayed behind to make phone calls to the prison tower guards to distract them. The rest raided the guard tower and stole numerous weapons and then stole a prison maintenance pick-up truck in which all seven drove away from the prison. They were apprehended just over a month after. Six of the seven were placed on Texas’ Death Row while the seventh (Larry James Harper) committed suicide rather than return to prison. |
7. John Gerard John Gerard is the only person ever known to have escaped from the notorious Tower of London. A Jesuit priest, Gerard was imprisoned for continuing to preach his Catholic beliefs when the church was under heavy persecution from Elizabethan England. During his imprisonment, he endured several interrogations, often being tortured for information. He never broke, but was eventually sentenced to death for his “crimes”. Desperate to escape, Gerard communicated with allies on the outside via smuggled notes written in invisible ink made from orange juice. These allies rowed a boat into the Tower’s moat and Gerard was able to escape by using a rope thrown up to him. Cheating death after almost falling because of his tortured hands, Gerard managed to climb down to the boat, flee England and live the rest of his life in Rome. |
8. Alfred George Hinds Alfred George Hinds was a British criminal who successfully broke out of three high security prisons while serving a 12 year prison sentence. Hinds’ first escape was from a Nottingham prison in 1958 where he managed to get through locked doors and over a 20-foot prison wall to his freedom. This feat earned him the name ‘Houdini Hinds’ in the media. He travelled throughout Europe during his time on the run, working as a painter-decorator before being apprehended after 248 days of freedom. Hinds used his re-arrest to his advantage, bringing a lawsuit against the authorities and hence finding a reason to be escorted to the Law Courts. Accomplices supplied Hinds with a padlock and attached screw eyes onto a toilet cubicle so that while being escorted to the toilet, Hinds bundled the two guards into the cubicle and locked them in. Escaping onto Fleet Street, Hinds made for the airport where he was captured five hours later. Hinds’ third and final prison escape came less than a year later, when he escaped from Chelmsford Prison. He fled to Ireland where he lived for two years under an assumed name before being stopped driving an unregistered car and rearrested. Following his eventual release from Parkhurst Prison, Hinds became a member of Mensa. |
9. John Dillinger John Herbert Dillinger Jr. was an American bank robber during the Depression era who robbed two dozen banks and four police stations during his crime spree. He escaped from prison twice in his criminal career. During a period in jail in Indiana, Dillinger befriended a series of seasoned bank robbers who taught him to be a successful criminal. After being released at the height of the Great Depression, Dillinger immediately returned to crime. After robbing two banks, he was captured and imprisoned in Lima in the Autumn of 1933. Dillinger used his time in jail to aid the escape of a group of inmates who he had met during his previous jail term. Inmates smuggled guns into their prison cells, which they used to escape just four days after Dillinger had been captured. The group then returned to the prison, impersonating Indiana State Prison officers and successfully released Dillinger from his cell.After another series of bank robberies, Dillinger was captured again in 1934 and sent to Crown Point Jail. The police boasted to the media that the jail was escape proof. This proved wildly untrue when Dillinger crafted a fake pistol from a piece of wood, supposedly using shelving in his cell and a razor to carve it. Dillinger tricked a guard to open his cell and then took seventeen men hostage before luring the guards back to the cell block and locking them in his own prison cell. He then fled. Dillinger evaded police across four states before meeting his end on 22 July 1934 when a tip-off led to a shoot-out in Chicago. Dillinger was shot three times and was pronounced dead shortly after. |
10: Yoshie Shiratori Yoshie Shiratori is best known for escaping from prison four times in three years. After being convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life plus 23 years imprisonment. Shiratori escaped from Aomori Prison in 1936, was recaptured and escaped from Akita Prison in 1942. In 1944, he rusted his handcuff and an inspection hole with miso soup, before escaping from Abashiri prison. He was caught again in 1946. Sapporo District Court sentenced him to death, which caused Shiratori to desperately find a way to escape and in 1947, he dug a tunnel and escaped for the fourth time! In 1948, he was recaptured after admitting to a policeman that he was an escaped convict. His death sentence was revoked and Shiratori eventually served 26 years before being paroled in 1961. |
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