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I (Almost) Got Away With It

Season 2 2010 - 2011
TV-14

  • 2010-10-27T02:00:00Z on Investigation Discovery
  • 1h
  • 9h 9m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime
For these perpetrators, their stories may be different, but their motives are always the same: to stay out of prison. The people profiled in this series evaded justice for years, sometimes decades, by using their families, fake identification and even violence to avoid capture. Learn what pushed these individuals to their crimes, how they stayed one step ahead of the police and managed to evade the law -- at least for a while.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2010-10-27T02:00:00Z

2x01 Got Caught By A Cougar

Season Premiere

2x01 Got Caught By A Cougar

  • 2010-10-27T02:00:00Z40m

Robert Spencer has just shot his girlfriend. He is a thug and drug dealer, who in a blind panic gets high and goes on the run, living every day as a party. He finds the affection of a friend's mother, which ultimately leads to his arrest.

2010-11-03T02:00:00Z

2x02 Got to Roll the Dice

2x02 Got to Roll the Dice

  • 2010-11-03T02:00:00Z41m

With 41 arrests and no convictions, Philip Williams had no worries that stabbing his ex in a parking lot would give him any trouble. But when he became a wanted man, he hit the road. Surviving on his gambling wins, Williams kept on the move.

2010-11-10T03:00:00Z

2x03 Got A Dead Man's ID

2x03 Got A Dead Man's ID

  • 2010-11-10T03:00:00Z41m

Michael Hess is a wanted prison escapee on the run with a new identity and has been living in the same town he is wanted in for two decades. Hess learns to beat the system and enjoy his new life of work, weed and women before he's busted.

2010-11-17T03:00:00Z

2x04 Got Caught Via Email

2x04 Got Caught Via Email

  • 2010-11-17T03:00:00Z40m

When Edward Roberson and two fellow inmates went to the showers, they didn't come back. Breaking out, the three scale the fences and run for it. Roberson has escaped and now has stolen guns, in a stolen car running for his life.

2010-11-23T03:00:00Z

2x05 Got Plastic Surgery

2x05 Got Plastic Surgery

  • 2010-11-23T03:00:00Z43m

Courtenay Savage is an ex-cop with a loaded gun aimed at a friend's trailer. She has no idea she is caught on tape. After an arrest and posting bail, she goes on the run, leaving ties to the police department and the sex industry.

2010-12-01T03:00:00Z

2x06 Got Raps

2x06 Got Raps

  • 2010-12-01T03:00:00Z43m

"In the streets, a man's greed is his motivation," is the motto of Raymond Ross. After beating a teen into a coma, Ross pulls some fast dope deals to raise money and skip town. Hiding with his wanted cousin, Ross beats his way into the dealing scene, by pushing dope and mixing music to sell. Until one night when instead of giving, Ross gets a beating from another dealer, nearly landing him in the hospital. This is a wake up call for Ross, deciding to live it big at the club, and sure enough that night this drug dealing DJ, gets caught on the downbeat.

2010-12-08T03:00:00Z

2x07 Got a Lot of Pot

2x07 Got a Lot of Pot

  • 2010-12-08T03:00:00Z43m

Steve Lamb grew up as a middle class beach boy, but dreamt big. He started by moving small amounts of pot from Mexico, which opened doors to larger business with Jamaica. By the time he was 20, Lamb was part of the "Steinhatchee Seven," a group of young, easygoing drug traffickers who were making millions. Lamb's life was spent in and out of jail, hiding from undercover cops, and moving thousands of bails of marijuana across the ocean. With all the close calls, it was finally a sting operation that caught Lamb with a thousand pounds of marijuana.

2010-12-15T03:00:00Z

2x08 Got Shot Above a Deli

2x08 Got Shot Above a Deli

  • 2010-12-15T03:00:00Z43m

What was planned as an easy robbery turns into The Carnegie Deli Murders. Sean Salley shoots an actress and her friends above a deli in New York, and flees to New Orleans and then to Miami where he plans to leave the country for good.

2010-12-22T03:00:00Z

2x09 Got to Lock and Load

2x09 Got to Lock and Load

  • 2010-12-22T03:00:00Z43m

In 1997 members of the Republic of Texas separatist group took Joe Rowe and his wife hostage. The Texas Rangers were able to negotiate their release, and capture four separatists, however two members, Richard Keyes and Mike Matson got away. Fleeing into the mountainous hills of Davis, Texas they spent two days evading helicopters and police dogs, eventually Matson pulls his pistol, preferring to go out in standoff. Keyes keeps running. Using an underground Militia group, Keyes is able to hideout in the woods undetected, until a tail leads the FBI to his hideout, and his capture.

2010-12-29T03:00:00Z

2x10 Got to Fetch a Hooker

2x10 Got to Fetch a Hooker

  • 2010-12-29T03:00:00Z43m

Life as drug dealer's muscle is not going to keep you out of trouble. Lane Slettvet, knew this, but tested fate until one night on a job to retrieve a prostitute from another drug dealer, Slettvet stabs and kills the man. Trying to lay low with his sister, and under the radar of the cops proves hard for Slettvet, constantly drawn to the life of parties, fights and drugs. Then one night, in a drunken stupor, Slettvet breaks a bottle over a taxi driver's head. The incident is reported, and Slettvet's run comes to an end.

2011-01-05T03:00:00Z

2x11 Got a Death Certificate

2x11 Got a Death Certificate

  • 2011-01-05T03:00:00Z43m

After witnessing a murder, Anthony Ragno goes on the run. Building a new life trafficking pot in the Haitian islands, a coke addiction and close calls with local governments drive Ragno back to the US with a fake name.

Eric Quesada and Michael Newhouse grew up as best friends, until high school gang life separated them. After a confrontation in a mall, Quesada made threats and one night did a drive by, killing Newhouse. Quesada went on the run to Mexico, using family connections to stay on the move. Eric had a close call, when a tipster called the Marshals at gave up his location. Quesada was caught with the joined forces of Mexican and US officials. He spent 2 years fighting extradition before he was sent back to the US and sentenced to 99 years.

Season Finale

2010-01-19T03:00:00Z

2x13 Got 9th Place

Season Finale

2x13 Got 9th Place

  • 2010-01-19T03:00:00Z43m

Randall Zandstra hid at his ex-wife's with a gun, waiting for a shot at her new boyfriend. He got one, but he also got 12 years in prison. Due to a technicality, a retrial was called. Zandstra fled. He ran to Vegas, winning big in tournaments. He also ran mail scams, but he got caught. With a stream of fraud trials Zandstra is transferred to multiple states but along the way he escapes. US Marshals tracked Zandstra down, where he makes a last attempt for freedom, crawling from the car-wreck with a broken leg, hand and back. He is now in a New Jersey prison.

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