From crafting master keys and fake guns to elaborate schemes involving underground tunnels and hijacked helicopters, these notorious prison escapes captured headlines and imaginations.
The curious case of “Facebook rapist” Thabo Bester’s escape has made news headlines in South Africa and abroad in the past few weeks, but it is far from the first of its kind.
While Bester’s escape certainly has its fair share of drama, there are several other high-profile prison breaks that are hard to believe weren’t invented by some Hollywood writer.Escape from Alcatraz After climbing up pipes and out of a ventilator grill on the prison’s roof, they descended the building and made their way to the shore.
But others believe it’s possible they may have reached the mainland and escaped if they exited the prison at a time when sea currents were favourable. Infamous American serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy’s second escape from custody — in December 1977 — required that he lose 16kg to squeeze through a hole in the steel bars of his cell’s ceiling.
Prison guards only discovered he had escaped 17 hours later, and Bundy was arrested on 12 February 1978 after a police officer stopped him in a stolen vehicle. He managed to sneak past sleeping guards and climb out a window before fleeing to a remote mountain in Cheongdo.
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