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I (Almost) Got Away With It

I (Almost) Got Away With It

For the lowlifes profiled in this series, their stories may be different, but the motive is always the same -- to live life on the lam. They evaded justice for years, sometimes decades, by using all means necessary, until law enforcement finally caught up to them. Along with a re-enactment of the story, each episode features a prison interview with the one-time fugitive, who tells of his adventures while on the run, how he survived and stayed one step ahead of the law ... and how he almost got away with it.
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Season 113 of 13 Episodes

  • Michael McGuffey shoots his wife point-blank in the head after an argument; his mother helps him flee to Mexico; the FBI is able to trace Michael by his bank records and is brought into custody.

  • A jealous boyfriend is suspected of shooting his girlfriend and murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

  • After being convicted of murder, Jerry Bowen erases his fingerprints with acid and assumes the identities of homeless men to hide from authorities.

  • A convicted killer escapes from prison to start a new life with the woman he married while he was incarcerated.

  • A 17-year-old gang member flees to Mexico to avoid a 48-year prison sentence.

  • A man hires a hit man to kill a friend's wife, but things go wrong and four people end up dead.

  • Richard Garber goes on the run after he becomes the lead suspect in his neighbor's death.

  • Joe Crouch flees to Florida after shooting his wife and funds his love of karaoke by robbing banks.

  • The story of Marshall Brown's life on the run after spending 19 years in prison planning his escape.

  • The latest in bank technology helps investigators end a bank robber's 13-month spree.

  • A career criminal flees to Canada when a drug deals go bad; Canadian authorities identify the criminal by his tattoos and extradite him back to the U.S.

  • Kerry Silvers and two other inmates overpower their guards and escape from prison.

  • Marvin Carson settled an argument with rival gang member Richard Hawk by shooting him multiple times with an AK-47.

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91 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

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    Got to Watch Those Country Girls
    Got to Be MacGyver
    Got to Pretend to Be a Cop
    Got a Handsome Face
    Got to Taunt the Cops
    Got to Send a Bomb in the Mail
    Got to Escape with a Battleaxe
  • Got to Be Part of the Texas Seven

    Patrick Murphy and six other inmates conduct the largest prison escape in Texas history, only to kill a police officer and face a showdown with authorities.
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  • Got to Pose as Katrina Refugees

    On the run after killing his mother, Scott Webb, and his wife, take refuge in a Texas church until a news report leads them to flee.
    Upcoming
  • Got to Escape Through an Air Duct

    A man convicted of murder, and his cellmate, escape through an air duct, but his freedom ends following a car crash.
    Upcoming
  • Got to Watch Those Country Girls

    Brothers plan a daring escape from a county jail and flee to Kentucky before one of the escapees' ex turns them in.
    Upcoming
  • Got to Be MacGyver

    Serving a life sentence for a double homicide, Harold Laird gets creative to escape from prison and evades the law on several occasions.
    Upcoming
  • Got to Pretend to Be a Cop

    Career criminal Peter Gibbs faces decades behind bars for a string of robberies but refuses to go down without a fight.
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I (Almost) Got Away With It

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For the lowlifes profiled in this series, their stories may be different, but the motive is always the same -- to live life on the lam. They evaded justice for years, sometimes decades, by using all means necessary, until law enforcement finally caught up to them. Along with a re-enactment of the story, each episode features a prison interview with the one-time fugitive, who tells of his adventures while on the run, how he survived and stayed one step ahead of the law ... and how he almost got away with it.

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Bill Ratner

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