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Escapee
Event
Other Topic
failed attempt
F
not captured/on the run
nc
multiple escape attempts
m
helicopter escape
🚁
tunnel escape
🕳
fatality involved
f
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Tier 1
Yoshie Shiratori (白鳥 由栄)
m
🕳
June 1962 Alcatraz Escape
nc
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1944 Stalag Luft III Break aka "The Great Escape"
🕳
Ted Bundy
m
Mark DeFriesta aka "Houdini of Florida"
m
Escaping from prison is legal in some countries
Rédoine Faïd
m
🚁
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
m
🕳
Texas Seven
John Dillinger
m
f
Frank Abagnale Jr.
2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape
🕳
1944 Cowra breakout
f
Alfred George Hinds
m
1983 Maze Prison escape
f
Brian Bo Larsen
m
Brian Bo Larsen's Bulldozer
Oflag IV-C escape attempts
F
m
🕳
John Patrick Hannan
nc
Napoleon Bonaparte (if the Island of Elba is considered a prison)
f
Tier 2
John Paul Scott
Mohamed "The Fly" Amra
f
Raymond John Denning
m
"Buckley's Chance"
Pascal Payet
m
🚁
Michel Vaujour
m
🚁
Casey White
John "Honest Jack" Sheppard
m
Assata Shakur
nc
2010 Kingman Arizona State Prison break
Henri "Papillon" Charrière
m
Vasilis Palaiokostas (Βασίλης Παλαιοκώστας)
nc
m
🚁
Moondyne Joe
m
William Banks hoax escape
Sarposa Prison attack
f
Danilo Souza Cavalcante
1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape
🚁
Leonard Peltier
f
Sarah Jo Pender
Billy Hayes
2017 Brazil prison riots
f
Richard Lee McNair
m
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Chris Chan prison escape hoax
Henry McCarty aka "Billy the Kid"
Giuseppe Musolino
Leonard Rayne Moses
Glen Stewart Godwin
nc
m
Great Papago Escape
🕳
2008 Clovis, New Mexico jail break
2013 Abu Ghraib Prison attack
f
Daniel Abed Khalife
Grant Hardin a.k.a. "The Devil in the Ozarks"
Jacques Mesrine
m
François Besse
m
William Francis Sutton Jr.
m
🕳
Eamon de Valera
Jamell Maurice Demons a.k.a. "YNW Melly" escape attempt accusation
Merle Ronald Haggard
m
Wiston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp escapes
🕳
Auschwitz concentration camp escapes
f
1943 Davao work camp escape
1942 Fort Stanton escape
Georg Gärtner
nc
Aktion Kugel (bullet decree)
F
Napoleon III
Witold Pilecki
George Blake
Pablo Escobar
Sir John Oldcastle
2011 Sarposa Prison tunnel escape
🕳
Devil's Island escape attempts
F
f
Gary Tison
f
Rudolf Vrba & Alfréd Wetzler
Tier 3
1943 Stalag Luft III first break
🕳
Alcatraz prison other escape attempts
F
f
Choi Gap Bok (최갑복)
m
Rafael Valadão
F
Omid Tahvili
nc
Thomas Michael Lane
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John Killick
🚁
Brenden Abbott aka The Postcard Bandit
m
Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ab Iorwerth
F
f
Hugo Grotius
Frederick Mors
nc
Edward Dwayne Edwards
m
Carlton Gary
m
Sevan Nişanyan
Zdzisław Najmrodzki
m
🕳
2025 New Orleans jailbreak
2025 Ecuador Machala Prison attack
f
1864 Libby Prison escape
🕳
f
Juan Ramirez Tijerina
F
Shin Dong-hyuk (신동혁) story
f
Unit 731 prison escape attempts
F
m
f
Victor Figueroa
nc
2000 San Quentin Rehabilitation Centre escape attempt
F
Glen Stark Chambers
nc
Thomas Hines
🕳
Lum You (林友)
Jerry E. Bergevin
nc
George Edward Wright
m
San Quentin Six
F
f
Ed "The Fox" Davis
F
f
René Belbenoît
1938 Fort San Cristóbal mutiny
f
André Devigny
f
Eleanor Jarman
1944 Camp 14 escape
🕳
Russell "Mad Dog" Cox
1971 Punta Carretas Prison tunnel
🕳
Thomas Otis Knight
Charles Rigoulot
1976 Sergovia Prison break
🕳
2017 Alabama Walker Couty Jail peanut butter escape
Sin Chang-won (신창원)
Pittsbugh Six
2013 Queyfiya Prison fire escape
Robert Elbryan, George Broussard & Christopher Boris
🚁
Charles Sobhraj
m
Donnie Rowe & Ricky Dubose
f
2019 Dêrik Prison escape attempt
F
Santos Fonseca & Jonathan Salazar
Dritan Rexhepi
2024 Haitian jailbreak
Clark Olofsson
m
Steven Jay Russell
m
Elyazid A
2000 Lyon Prison escape
🚁
f
2001 Draguignan prison escape
🚁
Porfirio Duarte-Herrera
William Magear "Boss" Tweed
Eric Ferdinand
🚁
Nordine Ben Allal
m
🚁
Ashraf Sekkaki
m
🚁
Panagiota Roupa (Παναγιώτα Ρούπα) & Nikos Maziotis (Νίκος Μαζιώτης)
Federico Savelli
Charles Manson's hot air balloon
F
Edouard Victor Michel Izac
Anthony John Deane-Drummond
m
Andrew William "Nicky" Barr
m
🕳
1943 The Wooden Horse escape
🕳
1941 Angler POW escape
🕳
Heinz Schnabel & Harry Wappler
Operation Kiebitz
F
🕳
Heinrich Harrer & Peter Aufschnaiter
George Everette "Bud" Day
🚁
Lance Peter Sijan
f
Max Leitner
m
Eleutherio "El Lute" Sánchez Rodríguez
m
Chris Crego
"Gun-toting Snoopy"
F
Samuel Mudd
F
2013 Oklahoma van escape
Mark Anderson & Luigi Mangione
F
Tier 4
John Anglin & Clarence Anglin Brazil Photos
nc
Robert Francis Mone & Thomas McCulloch
f
Monroe Hickson
nc
Marc Dutroux
Igor Vidra Bolte
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Kenneth Chad Burnum
F
Russell Maroon Shoatz
m
f
Bartolomeo Gagliano
m
Curtis Ray Watson
f
Marcos Rogério Machado de Morais aka "Cabeção"
Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (Пётр Кропоткин)
Victor Folke Nelson
Robert Dale Shepherd
1922 Dunkdal Gaol bombing
Sharon Kinne
nc
Neil Moore
Clauvino da Silva
F
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Ronaldo Silva
1947 Acre Prison siege
Frank Freshwaters
Eugène-François Vidocq
m
Gunther Plüschow
Daniel Luthur Heiss
1979 Pretorial Central Prison escape
Robert Dennis Wayne Hope
Izzet Eren
F
f
Jessica Boomershine
F
James Earl Ray
m
James Robert Jones
Scott Gomez Jr.
F
m
Garrett Brock Trapnell
F
m
🚁
Franciszek Gajowniczek
F
f
Edward Dean Kennedy
Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović (Жељко Ражнатовић)
m
2010 Haiti Earthquake prison escapees
f
Joseba Sarrionandia & Iñaki Pikabea
1984 Mecklenburg Correctional Center escape
William Scott Day
Peter Robert Gibb & Archie Butterley
1943 Stalag XXI-B escape
🕳
Martin Cash
m
Joel David Kaplan & Carlos Antonio Contreras Castro
🚁
David MacMillan
m
🚁
José Carlos dos Reis Encina aka "Escandinha"
🚁
André Bellaïche, Gianluigi Esposito & Luciano Cipollari
🚁
Croix-des-Bouquets prison break
f
Jeffrey Allen Manchester
Darnell Keith Washington
Kevin Patrick Stoeser
nc
Matthew Baker & James Whitlock
Allen Todd May
2021 Gilboa Prison break
🕳
Thabo Bester
2023 Ciudad Juárez Prison attack
f
José Adolfo Macías Villamar
m
William Leslie Arnold
nc
Tra'Von Johnson
m
William Patrick Alston
m
Jiří Kajínek
m
Philip Andrew Marshall
m
Robert Ford & David Thomas
🚁
1992 Lyon Prison escape
🚁
1996 Operación Vuelo de Justicia
🚁
Steven Whitsett
🚁
Philippe Maurice
F
m
Brian Lawrence's invisible ink
F
Tim Lambesis prison escape april's fools
Joshua Barney
Henri Honoré Giraud
m
Elias Henry Jones & Cedric Waters Hill
Merian Caldwell Cooper
1942 Majdanek concentration camp escape
f
1942 Camp 57 tunnel escape
🕳
Alexander "Sasha" Aronovich Pechersky (Алекса́ндр Аро́нович Пече́рский)
f
Alastair Lorimer Cram
m
Ulrich Steinhilper
m
Karl Rabe
m
1945 Island Farm "German Great Escape"
🕳
John Arthur Dramesi
m
James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe
🚁
1923 Yokohama Prison earthquake escape
Tatsuma Hirao (平尾達馬)
Li Guo Lin (李国林)
Watanabe Kai (渡邊魁)
Henri Rochefort
1944 Operation Jericho
f
Antonio Ferrara
m
Michael Ross
F
m
James Edward Russell
Michael J. Norwood
F
Christopher Boscacci
F
Masten Milimu Wanjala
Charles Victor Thompson
2014 Berrimah Prison break-outs and break-ins
Varg Vikernes
Tier 5
George Savvas & Ivan Milat plot
F
🕳
Kyle Ashley Dale Baker
2020 Pedro Juan Caballero Prison escape
Roberto "La Hiena Humana" José Carmona
f
Samuel Smedley
2021 Brisbane Immigration Center tunnel escape attempt
F
🕳
Antônio Jussivan Alves dos Santos aka "Alemão"
F
1962 Alcatraz escapees executed
f
Martín "El Porteño" Luzi
1972 Rawson Prison escape
f
Michael Tisius
F
f
Victor Brincat
m
Judson Cunha Evangelista
F
🕳
f
Alfred Anglin
F
f
Orange County Men's Central Jail escape video
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Hudon-Barbeau & Danny Provençal
🚁
Warren George Briggs
1975 United States Penitentiary, Marion escape
Zhu Xianjian (주현건)
Jose Hernandez & Pablo Robledo
1982 Ayacucho Prison attack
f
1983 Batticaloa Jailbreak
1987 Penitentiary of New Mexico escape
2014 Centro Penitenciario de Iquique earthquake escape
2004 Matara Prison tsunami escape
f
Gonzalo Artemio López
1993 Pārlielupe Prison escape
Arthur Rudy Martinez
Michael Floyd Wilson
m
2013 Trikala Prison escape
🚁
Gérard Dupré & Daniel Beaumont
🚁
Giles Arseneault
F
🚁
1985 Perry Correctional Institution escape
🚁
2021 Tula Prison attack
HM Prison Gartree helicopter escape
🚁
Martin Edward Gurule
F
f
Daniel Renwick, Tracy Province & John McCluskey
Julien Chautard
John Massey
Michael Burham
2024 Makala jailbreak attempt
f
2017 Makala jailbreak
f
Nachman Farkash
m
George Feigley
F
m
🚁
Triệu Quân Sự
m
Ralph Brown & Freddie Gonzales
🚁
1991 Río Piedras State Penitentiary helicopter escape
🚁
2001 Fresnes prison hostage crisis
F
Alexey Shestakov (Алексей Шестаков)
🚁
2014 Orsainville Detention Facility escape
🚁
Franz Xaver Freiherr von Werra
m
🕳
John Owen Donaldson
m
Clive Barry
Gordon Thomson Woodroofe
Dieter Engler
1897 Hiroshima death row inmates escape
Torakichi Nishikawa (西川 寅吉)
m
1996 Tokyo Detention House escape
Takashi Kitamura (北村隆志)
Alfred Lecki
m
Raymond Elzie Hamilton
Albert Spaggiari
Regan Reti & Tiranara White
F
Alexander Scaramastro
F
Cecilia Johanna Steyn
F
Nicholas Celius
Tier 6
Joanna Dennehy escape plot
F
Richard Lee McNair SWAT Team footage
Hilario "Copete" Villalba, Arnaldo Bobadilla Garay & Ramón Cáceres
F
🕳
Marcelo Torrico & Diego Enrique
Nahir Galarza
F
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Leonard Fristoe
1943 Latrun Prison break
🕳
2016 São Paulo toilet escape plot
F
1980 San Sebastian Prison escape
2022 Waldheim barbed wire escape
F
Central Mississippi Correctional Facility hoax escape call
Samantha Lopez
🚁
Dawn Amos, Douglas Winter & David Spain
f
1995 Vellore Fort jailbreak
🕳
2025 Muzenze Prison jailbreak
f
1988 Penitentiary of New Mexico escape
🚁
Ben Kramer
F
🚁
1891 San Quentin State Prison escape attempt
F
Leslie Dale Martin
F
m
Timothy A. Vail & Timothy G. Morgan
2009 Michigan City Prison escape
🕳
2015 Ara Civil Court bombing escape
f
Sher Singh Rana (शेर सिंह राणा)
James Newman & Thomas Deering
Dandeny "La Quica" Muñoz & Brances "Tyson" Muñoz
🚁
Zhang Guilin & Wang Lei (张桂林 & 王雷)
Lawrence Caldwell, Albert Garza & Howard Zumberge
Collen Chauke
m
1997 De Geerhorst prison escape attempt
🚁
f
2002 Jose Parada Neto penitentiary escape
🚁
2002 Las Cucharas prison escape
🚁
2005 Aiton Prison escape
🚁
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros
Felice Benuzzi
Walter Manhard
Kim Jin-soo (김진수)
Ikram Sehgal (اکرام سہگل)
1883 Okayama Prison Station arson incident
f
1947 Shizuoka Prison riot
Matsuo Fujimoto (藤本 松夫)
Bastøy Prison escape
F
1943 Belle-Île-en-Mer penal colony mutiny
Albertine Sarrazin
m
Hector Luis Campos
F
Karl McAdorey
F
Robert Paterson
F
"Jack Peter Karlson"
m
Tier 7
Owen Hooper, William Cabalt & Stanley Stone Phonecall
Luis Fernando Iribarren aka "the butcher of San Andrés de Giles"
1977 State Research Bureau escape
f
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Mykola Lemyk (Микола Лемик)
Peter Thomson
nc
George "Billy" Hunt
F
f
John Manard
1988 Bellavista Prison escape
🚁
2012 El Marite Jail escape
🕳
2001 Chicago State Penitentiary's H-Unit escape
Quentin Truehill, Kentrell Johnson & Peter Hughes
2015 Tihar Jail Tunnel escape
🕳
It's illegal to broadcast prison keys in television to avoid future escapes
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor CIA Involvement
Juliano Verbard
F
m
🚁
Kristel A.
F
🚁
Max Weidauer
Annabelle is related to the 2025 New Orleans Prison break
K
1965 Hiroshima Detention Center Onomichi Branch Prison break
Carlos Garcia
F
Sidney da Cruz & Carlos Pereira
F
Tier 8
Stephan Balliet
F
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626-539 BC Iraq Ishtar Temple escape
F
f
Prison Earth escapes
F
m
f
Shimon bar Yonah (שמעון בר יונה)
Peter Madsen
Sławomir Rawicz cryptid sighting
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