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I (Almost) Got Away With It
2010 - 2016 6.4 (9 votes) 8 Seasons
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I (Almost) Got Away With It

Overview

Murders, drug dealers, bank robbers or jail escapees. The stories are different, but the motive is always the same: to stay out of prison. See what pushed these fugitives to their crimes, how they changed their identities, evaded the law and - almost - got away with it.

Top Cast

Tony Toste

Detective Mederos/SWAT Team SGT.

Bill Ratner
Bill Ratner

Narrator

Quint Gabriel
Quint Gabriel

FBI Agent, Intelligence analyst, Police Officer, Prisioner 2

Seasons

Season 1 (2010)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got Remarried
2010-01-12

Michael McGuffey murders his estranged wife in a parking lot in Mt. Vernon, Washington in front of several witnesses and flees to Texas and from there to Mexico City.

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Episode 2: Got Dumped
2010-01-19

Michael Alfonso shoots his ex-girlfriend Sumanear Yang in the head. Nine years later, he shot another girlfriend, Genoveva Velasquez, and fled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, finding a job as a bartender.

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Episode 3: Got No Fingerprints
2010-01-26

Jerry Bowen, a drywall contractor in Huntsville, Alabama, murders his ex-wife. Her body is discovered two months later in a river, wrapped in plastic and chains.

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Episode 4: Got a Video Rental Store
2010-02-02

In 1975, Michael Wayne Brown is one of a trio of teens committing a string of burglaries. One night, they are in the process of burglarizing an insurance office when they are surprised to see the owner appear.

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Episode 5: Got Two Homes in Mexico
2010-02-09

Gonzalo Martinez shoots three people in gang-related violence and is sentenced to 48 years in prison for the attempted murders. Martinez and three other inmates escape and flee to Denver.

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Episode 6: Got the Wrong Four People Killed
2010-02-16

Dorsey Sanders III and Scott Burnside hire John Barrett to kill Dorsey's mother Joanne. Barrett botches the hit, instead killing Joanne's new fiancé and three workers in the process of renovating the house.

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Episode 7: Got Caught in the Shower
2010-02-23

Richard Garber murders his neighbor Janio Moraes over a dispute about money. Garber and his girlfriend Anna then head to Las Vegas.

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Episode 8: Got to Sing Karaoke
2010-03-02

Joe Crouch of Memphis, Tennessee is a compulsive gambler whose addiction has led him to write bad checks for over $80,000. When he discovers that he is facing criminal charges, he confesses his crimes to his wife.

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Episode 9: Got Revenge
2010-03-09

Drug enforcer Marshall Brown is sentenced to life in prison for murdering a witness scheduled to testify against him. After spending 16 years as a model prisoner, he escapes and reenters the drug trade.

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Episode 10: Got to Rob Banks
2010-03-16

Joe Loya lives a double life as a charming man, working as a cook at a restaurant, playing golf, and wearing expensive designer clothes. His friends think highly of him. Meanwhile, he is secretly a career bank robber whom police have dubbed the "Beirut bandit" due to his dark complexion.

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Episode 11: Go to Go to Canada
2010-03-23

Scott Freeburg has been in and out of prison since age 18. While working as an enforcer for a drug dealer, he gets into a fight with his victim, whom he shoots to death with the victim's gun.

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Episode 12: Got a Gun Made Out of Toilet Paper
2010-03-30

Kerry Silvers is serving a 61-year sentence for robbery and other crimes. Four years into his sentence, he and two other inmates escape in a stolen car.

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Episode 13: Got to Get Bike Parts
2010-04-06

Marvin Carson is a member of a motorcycle gang. One day, a friend who broke up with her boyfriend, a rival biker gang member, asks Carson to go to her ex's house and retrieve her bike. He does so. When the rival biker threatens Carson's friends, Carson shoots one of his rivals.

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Season 2 (2010)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got Caught By a Cougar
2010-10-26

Robert Spencer, a Jacksonville drug dealer, is known for his temper. One day, he gets angry at his girlfriend and fires a series of shots into her window with the intention of scaring her. She is hit and dies.

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Episode 2: Got to Roll the Dice
2010-11-02

Phillip Anthony Williams of Albuquerque murders his ex-girlfriend as she attempts to get into her car after work.

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Episode 3: Got a Dead Man's ID
2010-11-09

Michael Hess of Tampa, Florida is sentenced to 35 years in prison for a series of convenience store robberies. After seven years as a model prisoner, he escapes and catches a bus to California.

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Episode 4: Got Caught Via Email
2010-11-16

Edward Roberson is sentenced to five years in prison for a string of motor vehicle thefts. A failed escape attempt earns him another 10 years.

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Episode 5: Got Plastic Surgery
2010-11-23

Courtenay Savage shoots into the home of her former friend and business partner three times, nearly inflicting life-threatening damage. She is charged with attempted murder.

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Episode 6: Got Raps
2010-11-30

Recently paroled Raymond Ross steals a car and runs over its owner, teenaged Troy Bowman. Ross takes the stolen car to his hometown of Humboldt, Tennessee, where he strips it for parts.

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Episode 7: Got a Lot of Pot
2010-12-07

Marijuana smuggler Steve Lamb and his crew are arrested in the largest marijuana bust in US history. All participants receive 20 years in prison, but are paroled after two years.

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Episode 8: Got Shot Above a Deli
2010-12-14

Manhattan drug dealer and aspiring rapper Sean Salley plans to rob a rival dealer with his accomplice, Andre Smith. The pair go to an apartment located above the Carnegie Deli and shoot all of the occupants execution style in order to leave no witnesses behind.

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Episode 9: Got to Lock and Load
2010-12-21

The Republic of Texas is a militia group that believes the state of Texas is being held illegally by the United States and supports Texas seceding from the Union. After a contentious hostage situation, police raid the compound for illegal firearms.

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Episode 10: Got to Pick Up a Hooker
2010-12-28

Drug enforcer Dallas Slettvet gets into a fight at a home where he is sent and stabs the victim to death with his own knife. Realizing he has taken a life, he panics.

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Episode 11: Got a Death Certificate
2011-01-04

James Clement is selling a boat, and is murdered by two men, the Ellis brothers, posing as potential buyers. The Ellises drive the boat to the Bahamas, where drug dealer Anthony Ragno will sell it on the black market.

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Episode 12: Got a Family Coming After Me
2011-01-11

Erick Quesada is wanted for the murder of his best friend turned enemy Michael Newhouse in a drive-by shooting in the suburbs of San Antonio. The day after the shooting, Quesada's mother takes him to a relative in Mexico to stay.

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Episode 13: Got Ninth Place at Poker
2011-01-18

After four years of marriage, 25-year-old Randall Zandstra and his wife separate. When he finds her with a new boyfriend, Zastra shoots the new boyfriend and flees.

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Season 3 (2011)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got a Country Legend's Tour Bus
2011-04-12

Career criminal Christopher Daniel Gay hears his mother is dying and escapes custody again to see her. After spending the night hiding in the woods, Gay steals a pickup truck, abandons it a few hours later, and then steals a Walmart truck.

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Episode 2: Got That Tough Girl Look
2011-04-19

Following the murder of Earl Mason in a Daytona Beach motel, the three perpetrators, Jason Bowman, William McMinn, and Juanita Liebman, flee to Texas.

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Episode 3: Got a Bad Temper
2011-04-26

While awaiting trial in Oklahoma, Aurlieas Dante McClarty robs a taco shop and uses the money to flee to Los Angeles, then Cleveland, Orlando, Laurel, Maryland, and finally North Carolina.

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Episode 4: Got to Escape in Underwear
2011-05-03

After spending three days in a holding cell at the Unicoi County, Tennessee jail, Ricky McCurry begs the lone officer on duty for a shower. The officer opens his cell door while McCurry is dressed in nothing but underpants.

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Episode 5: Got a Pen Pal
2011-05-10

Brenda Wynn, a drug dealer in Daytona Beach, is robbed by the man she had employed as a driver. Wynn runs him over and leaves him for dead.

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Episode 6: Got to Get Revenge
2011-05-31

Scott Eizember flees his home state of Michigan after violating a restraining order. He settles in Tulsa, Oklahoma and begins a relationship with a woman named Kathy.

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Episode 7: Got to Run With My Buddy
2011-06-07

In the Clovis, New Mexico jail, Larry McClendon awaits trial for murder. When his childhood friend Michael England comes to jail on a probation violation, the two plan to escape together.

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Episode 8: Got Caught in Love Triangle
2011-06-14

Henry Lee Marshall of Tampa, Florida, stalks his former girlfriend Martha Leathers, who now has a long-term relationship and five children with George O'Neill.

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Episode 9: Got a Boyfriend to Support
2011-06-21

Steven Jay Russell is fired from his food service job for being gay. He turns to low-level fraud and is sentenced to six months behind bars. After just one month, he escapes and flees to Florida,

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Episode 10: Got to Impersonate a Guard
2011-06-28

While working at an Albertsons in Dallas, Dennis Wayne Hope formulates a plan to rob his employer. By posing as an employee of an armored truck company, Hope collects cash deposits from several Albertsons in the area.

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Episode 11: Got Shot in the Leg
2011-07-05

Four friends rob the Jade East restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, from which one of them has just been fired. During the robbery, they kill the owners, Arthur and Amy Lee, along with employee Kai Yin Chuey, and steal the Lees' jewelry.

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Episode 12: Got to Hide in a Swamp
2011-07-12

After spending 10 months in jail, Dominick Reddick escapes from a transport van after it breaks down along a Florida highway.

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Episode 13: Got to Work on a Crab Boat
2011-07-19

After robbing a bank in Florida, Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson flees to Alaska to and gets a job working on a crab boat for a season.

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Season 4 (2011)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got To Ride The Rails
2011-10-06

A neighbor calls 911 when she smells smoke coming from an apartment shared by Ricky Sleight and William Baldi. The police find Baldi's dead body, but Sleight escapes by riding freight trains across the country. The FBI turns to the media for help.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Got To Wear A Pink Shirt
2011-10-13

Abraham Cavazos shoots a man at a party and flees to Juarez, Mexico to disappear. Cavazos uses multiple women to support him in Mexico. He changes identities, locations and girlfriends, but it's not enough to keep authorities from tracking him down.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Got To Silence A Witness
2011-10-20

An Oklahoma drug lord who was wanted for murder and kidnapping fled to Mexico to stay out of prison.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Got To Copy Movies
2011-10-27

JohnnyRay Gasca, a successful video pirate, scams the film industry while partying with celebrities and hiding from the law. Gasca went to prison for attempted murder and U.S. Marshals believe Gasca's illicit lifestyle will soon turn violent.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Got To Burn A Truck
2011-11-03

Jermaine LeBron and a group of friends murder a man in Florida and steal his expensive truck. LeBron then teams up with Howard Kendall to continue the crime spree. Their plan unravels when the friends confess to the murder and rats LeBron out to police.

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Episode 6: Got To Pose As A Firefighter
2011-11-10

Fired from his job as a fashion writer, Peter Braunstein vows to take revenge on the fashionistas who snubbed him. Posing as a firefighter, he kidnaps a co-worker and terrorizes her for 16 hours before leading detectives on a multi-state chase.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Got To Be A Car Salesman
2011-11-17

A freak accident threatens to send a criminal-turned-car salesman back to jail.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Got To Steal A Rich Woman's Jewelry
2011-12-01

In 1985 Kaysie Dudley's mother gets fired from her job as a caregiver for an elderly widow and the pair plot to steal her rings as revenge. When the 77-year-old woman unexpectedly puts up a fight, Dudley resorts to the unthinkable -cold blooded murder.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Got To Make A Dummy Out Of Sheets
2011-12-08

With seven escapes under his belt, Frankie Lee Bass will stop at nothing to be free. While facing five life sentences for a spree of Florida robberies, Bass makes a daring escape and goes on the run.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: Got To Escape From The Rock
2011-12-15

By the age of 17, William Van Poyck is convicted of robbery and serves 6 years behind bars before escaping from a maximum security prison. In 1987, he prepares for his most daring crime yet; ambushing a prison transport van.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Got To Run To Mexico With My Kids
2011-12-22

In July of 2009, Valerie Castellano robs a bank in rural Indiana. She flees with her three children and her girlfriend to Mexico. Back in Indiana, police focus their attention on Valerie's mother, hoping she will be the key to her daughter's capture.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Got To Pretend I'm A Priest
2011-12-29

A con artist keeps reinventing himself.

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Episode 13: Got To Escape Underground
2012-01-05

Man learns the true cost of being on the run.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 5 (2012)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got to Hide Out in Suburbia
2012-04-11

Robert Jeffery loses his entire drug business in a fire. In order to pay off his supplier, he robs a bank but is arrested. He escapes from jail and survives by dealing drugs and pulling scams, until he meets a woman and moves to the suburbs. But soon the FBI finds him and corners him at a busy subway station.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Got to Murder My Own Family
2012-04-18

After killing his step-mom and three young brothers, James Wiley is given a life sentence. He escapes into the Wyoming wilderness and hides under the wheel of a big rig, holding on for dear life as the truck heads down the highway. He calls a friend for help at a rest area but gets caught and sent back to prison.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Got to Build a Bridge to Freedom
2012-04-24

Nicholas Johnson is a teenage robber terrorizing the streets of Portland, Oregon. After getting caught, he plans an elaborate escape and slips past the prison’s high-level security system. With the help of his family, Johnson stays hidden from the law until a tip leads police right to his whereabouts.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Got to Build a Meth Lab
2012-05-02

Jerry Wright builds a booming meth business in the Tennessee hills until his makeshift lab blows up. During a fight over money, Wright kills a man and runs to his sister’s in Ohio but gets caught. He escapes from prison but can't handle the stress of being a fugitive. He is soon captured and sent back to jail.

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Episode 5: Got to Run with My Brother
2012-05-09

Mark and Maverick Maher are teenage punks who form their own militia -- a band of youths who rob houses and break into cars. After sending a threatening audio tape to police, they go on the run, living in the Florida swamps and eventually leading police on a lengthy chase through an upscale neighborhood.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Got to Break Into Vacation Homes
2012-05-16

William Alderman robs to support his girlfriend and her 3-year-old daughter. The trio heads to Idaho, breaking into vacation homes and using the little girl to help carry out the crimes. During a botched robbery, a man is killed and the family runs but gets caught during a takedown at a roadside motel.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 7: Got to Run to Costa Rica
2012-05-23

David Harden is a clean-cut businessman living a double life as a burglar. His drug habit forces him to commit more daring crimes until he gets caught. He runs to Costa Rica, pulling scams until a friend turns on him. After getting deported, he sneaks out of prison hidden in a trash bin to live as a fugitive.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 8: Got to Prey on Tourists
2012-05-30

Patsy Jones is the leader of a band of thieves, targeting tourists leaving the Miami airport by robbing and carjacking them at gunpoint. One night, a tourist fails to stop and Jones shoots and kills him. She hides in an abandoned apartment until the intense manhunt leads the police right to her doorstep.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 9: Got to Make It in the Big Easy
2012-06-06

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Episode 10: Got to Become a Neo-Nazi
2012-06-13

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Episode 11: Got to Take Down My Ex-Boyfriend
2012-06-20

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 12: Got Hammered on a Sailboat
2012-06-27

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Episode 13: Got to Make You A Superstar
2012-07-31

Two stories of fugitives on the run. First, a scam artist cons aspiring artists out of millions. But when one victim demands justice, a high-profile manhunt ensues. Then, a modern day Bonnie and Clyde eludes police until a slip-up leads to their doorstep.

Runtime: 45 min
Season 6 (2013)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got to Kill My Step-Dad
2013-06-24

In Miami, Florida, teenage Randy Baggett is sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for killing his abusive stepfather. He escapes from the high security prison and treks through the woods as police dogs search for him.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 2: Got to Escape Through a Toilet
2013-07-01

A pair of friends and criminals escape from prison in 2009 and lead police on a manhunt across the Southeast.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: GOT to Pose as a War Vet
2013-07-08

Posing as a veteran and preying on women to get cash, cars, and even a house, Jerrod Durr finds himself in a multistate game of cat and mouse with cops.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Got to Escape With One Leg
2013-07-15

Walter Rhodes and 2 other suspects were involved with the murder of 2 cops. Rhodes agrees to testify against the others for a lesser sentence and is released in 18 years. Shortly after, he violates his parole - but refuses to ever go back to prison.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: GOT to be the Black Market Maestro
2013-07-22

19-year-old Kylen Padgett's escalating crimes get him arrested. After a jury acquits him for attempted murder, he reverts back to his old ways by robbing wealthy home owners. The crime-spree launches a county-wide manhunt.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Got to Rob a Pawn Shop
2013-07-29

Stolen weapons dealer, Conan Helsley, robs a pawnshop with his girlfriend and older brother.

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Episode 7: Got to Be Bonnie and Clyde
2013-08-05

After getting arrested for robbery, Robert Askew runs from a work camp and goes back to stealing to make a living. Askew eventually gets caught again, but he escapes from jail during a hurricane and goes on a crime spree, breaking into vacation homes.

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Episode 8: Got to Be the Green Baron
2013-08-12

In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Tony Darwin and his group of 18 friends make their living smuggling marijuana from Jamaica into the United States. All are members of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, which uses marijuana as a sacrament.

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Season 7 (2014)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got to Be a Ladies' Man
2014-06-02

David Corbin is a career criminal. After a stint in prison, Corbin launches a crime wave, stealing cars and selling them for a profit. But when a jealous girlfriend rats him out, Corbin is caught and sent to prison where he pulls off a daring escape.

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Episode 2: Got to Fall in Love with a Prison Guard
2014-06-09

In Joplin, Missouri, 19-year-old Terry Banks kills his 17-year-old girlfriend's husband with help from his friend Matt Meyers. Meyers gets 67 years in prison, while Banks is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

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Episode 3: Got a Rich Widow
2014-06-16

Tired of receiving bad treatment from his wealthy clients, country club tennis instructor Brian Maurice Fuller decides to start robbing them.

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Episode 4: Got to Be Part of the Texas Seven
2014-06-30

At John B. Connally Unit, a maximum-security prison near Kennedy, Texas, seven inmates craft and execute an elaborate plan for escape. Once free, the escapees hide out in a Dallas-Fort Worth area motel.

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Episode 5: Got to Pose As Katrina Refugee
2014-07-07

On October 19, 2005, Scott Webb kills his mother Margaret while in a drug-fueled rage. Scott and his wife Michelle, both hardened addicts, steal a truck from Scott's former work and go on the run.

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Episode 6: Got to Escape Through an Air Duct
2014-07-14

Rondell Reed is released from prison in 2010 after serving 21 years there. Reed moves to Kentucky and finds work in an auto repair shop. On April 16, 2011, Reed's boss pulls a gun on him during an argument.

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Episode 7: Got to Watch Those Country Girls
2014-07-21

In February 2003, brothers Roger and David DeLucenay are both incarcerated in Elkhart County Jail. They work together to escape and drive six hours to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where they work to raise money to travel and visit their children.

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Episode 8: Got to Be MacGuyver
2014-07-28

Harold Laird and two of his friends murder Laird's stepfather Red and Red's girlfriend. They plan to go to Pennsylvania, but are arrested when police find them driving a stolen truck.

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Season 8 (2016)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Got to Pretend to Be a Cop
2016-05-13

Peter Gibbs faces a long stretch in prison for a string of robberies but he refuses to go down without a fight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Got a Handsome Face
2016-05-20

Bank robber Steven Ray Milam is called the Handsome Guy Bandit as he makes a costly mistake forcing him to leave his family and go on the run.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 3: Got to Taunt the Cops
2016-05-27

Jimmy Maxwell's volatile nature sees him being a menace to authorities every time they manage to corner him after he escapes from prison.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 4: Got to Send a Bomb in the Mail
2016-06-03

Albert Paul ends up being arrested for murder and spends the next twenty years pulling off daring prison breaks only to get captured following every attempt.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 5: Got to Escape with a Battleaxe
2016-06-10

Whilst serving a 60-year sentence for a crime he says he didn't commit, Russell Kerr plots with a fellow inmate an elaborate escap

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 6: Got to Get Home to Mother
2016-06-17

Robert Nielsen escapes from a Florida prison, where he has been serving a 25 year sentence for an armed robbery he committed when he was 16.

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Episode 7: Got to Get Out of Debt
2016-06-24

In South Los Angeles, truck driver Jaime Jones slips and falls at work, suffering a herniated disc in his lower back, forcing him to quit. Facing foreclosure on his home, Jones turns to bank robbery to pay his bills and becomes known as the "Neck Brace Bandit".

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Episode 8: Got to Crawl My Way to Freedom
2016-07-01

In March 2007, Darryl Norris is paroled after serving eight years of his 15-year sentence for two counts of armed robbery. On April 15, 2008, Norris and an accomplice named Robert rob a J&A store, where Robert shoots and kills a store clerk.

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Episode 9: Got to Be Part of the Pittsburgh Six
2016-07-08

Andrew Thomas Heim of Pittsburgh is serving 4–10 years in prison for battery and assault. In prison, he recruits five other inmates to form a plan of escape.

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Episode 10: Got to Hit Homes on Halloween
2016-07-15

In El Paso, Texas, Michael Kidd and his two friends Kevin Crandall and Marcus Thompson decide to fund their drug habits by robbing homes.

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