Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
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Q 01Which Boston gangster spent 16 years on the run before his arrest in Santa Monica?
Whitey Bulger
Whitey Bulger fled after his FBI handler warned him of sealed indictments, and a renewed FBI appeal centred on his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, finally led agents to him.
Q 02Which drug lord escaped a maximum-security prison through a tunnel from his cell's shower?
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán
Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, made headlines for his elaborate escape in 2015 from Altiplano federal prison via a mile-long tunnel, only to be recaptured in 2016.
Q 03Which bank robber broke out of an Indiana jail, reportedly with a carved wooden pistol, before federal agents killed him?
John Dillinger
John Dillinger's gun was wood by his own account and in FBI files, though a deputy insisted it was real; agents later shot him outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.
Q 04Which serial killer escaped from the Aspen courthouse via a second-story window and was caught six days later?
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy escaped again that December, from the Glenwood Springs jail, and fled to Florida, where he murdered at least three more people before his capture.
Q 05Which convicted assassin escaped Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary but was quickly recaptured after a manhunt?
James Earl Ray
James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to killing Martin Luther King Jr., recanted three days later, and in 1997 King's family backed his call for a trial.
Q 06Which con artist escaped a Georgia county jail, only to be recaptured in New York days later?
Frank Abagnale Jr.
Frank Abagnale Jr.'s Georgia arrest was for ten fake Pan Am checks worth under $1,500, and prison records show he was locked up during much of his famous impostor years.
Q 07Who walked away from an Ohio prison farm after a fatal speeding crash and lived under an alias for 56 years?
Frank Freshwaters
Frank Freshwaters had killed Army veteran Eugene Flynt while speeding in Akron, and after his 1959 walkout he lived under an assumed name until US Marshals found him in Florida.
Q 08Who confessed to being the 'Boston Strangler' but was jailed for unrelated crimes, then escaped from Bridgewater?
Albert DeSalvo
Albert DeSalvo was never tried for the stranglings, but in 2013 DNA tied him to Mary Sullivan, the last victim, nearly 50 years after her murder.
Q 09Which 'Houdini of Florida' inmate escaped custody seven times in thirteen attempts, and was recaptured every time?
Mark DeFriest
Mark DeFriest's four-year sentence, for taking tools his late father left him before the will cleared probate, stretched into decades as each escape attempt added time.
Q 10Which Great Train Robber spent more than three decades on the run before flying home to Britain to be arrested?
Ronnie Biggs
Ronnie Biggs dodged extradition from Brazil because his girlfriend was expecting a Brazilian child, and after flying home he served eight more years.