Most Weird Jail Escapes

Escape from Alcatraz

You would assume it might be not possible to interrupt out of Alcatraz, however on Gregorian calendar month eleven, 1962, period criminals Frank Lee Morris and brothers John and equipage Anglin at liberty from

“The Rock” through a hand-dug tunnel. The trio had made fake heads out of soap, toilet paper and real hair, which tricked guards during their night-time inspections.

They’d spent the last year mistreatment crude tools to rigorously dig a tunnel in their adjacent cell walls that light-emitting diode to associate degree unused service passageway.

From there, they climbed a ventilation shaft to the roof. They scaled a fence and assembled a raft out of raincoats and contact cemvent they had stolen from the prison. They were not discovered missing until the next morning.

Much to the horror of locals, the FBI never found a trace of them on the island or nearby Angel Island, and it was feared they could be living

under the radar among the population.

Seventeen years later, the FBI concluded their investigation, saying the three men must have drowned in the bay.

French Lovers

Nadine Vaujour wished her husband out of jail, so she decided to take helicopter lessons in order to help him escape.

Michel Vaujour was serving an extended sentence for tried murder and robbery.

In May 1986, he used nectarines that were painted to look like grenades to force his way onto the prison’s roof. His wife then picked him up in a helicopter and they flew to a football field, where a car was waiting and they drove away. But Nadine Vaujour was discovered and arrested.

Michel survived being shot within the head throughout a unsuccessful bank theft.

Another Flying Criminal

It seems helicopters square measure a well-liked technique of jail escape.

French slayer Pascal Payet gained international infamy for his role in an exceedingly series of jail breaks that enclosed helicopters, beginning in 2001 when his friends used one to collect

him from the roof of the village prison. Two years later, he repeated that scene to help three more prisoners escape. He was later caught and sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder. He managed to break out of the closely guarded prison in 2007 when masked men hijacked a helicopter and jumped out of it at the prison with sawed-off shotguns, blasted their way in and came out with Payet.

He was caught, again, months later in Barcelona and is now in prison in an undisclosed location.

John Dillinger Uses a Wooden Gun

John Herbert Dillinger was America’s public enemy No. 1 when he went on a yearlong crime spree across the midwest. He and his gang reportedly robbed a dozen or so banks and police stations, killing 10 men in the process. He was finally arrested in Tucson, Arizona in January 1934 and put in Lake Country Jail in Crown Point, Indiana.

But in March three, 1934, Dillinger and another inmate allegedly used a fake gun carved out of wood and blackened with shoe polish to force their way out of the facility.

He then escaped in the sheriff’s brand-new V-8 Ford. FBI agents found and killed Dillinger later that year in Chicago.

Not Just Once, But Twice

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most disreputable drug baron, at liberty from a high-security jail in an exceedingly handcart in 2011, with the assistance of bribed guards.

One guard opened the door to El Chapo’s cell while the other helped him climb into the cart. They pushed him outside, and once there, he hopped into the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. It took authorities 13 years to catch him. But he didn’t stay behind bars for long: after only 17 months back in prison, Guzman stepped into the shower of a maximum security prison and crawled to freedom through a mile-long tunnel that was built just for him. The tunnel was complete with lighting, ventilation and even a modified motorcycle on tracks that was probably used to transport tools for the dig. El Chapo was caught in January 2016 and is now held in the United States.