About this season
Murders, drug dealers, bank robbers or jail escapees. The stories are different, but the motive is always the same: to stay out of prison. See what pushed these fugitives to their crimes, how they changed their identities, evaded the law and - almost - got away with it.
Episodes (13)
1. Got To Ride The Rails
Aired 6 October 2011 • 45 min
A neighbor calls 911 when she smells smoke coming from an apartment shared by Ricky Sleight and William Baldi. The police find Baldi's dead body, but Sleight escapes by riding freight trains across the country. The FBI turns to the media for help.
2. Got To Wear A Pink Shirt
Aired 13 October 2011 • 45 min
Abraham Cavazos shoots a man at a party and flees to Juarez, Mexico to disappear. Cavazos uses multiple women to support him in Mexico. He changes identities, locations and girlfriends, but it's not enough to keep authorities from tracking him down.
3. Got To Silence A Witness
Aired 20 October 2011 • 45 min
An Oklahoma drug lord who was wanted for murder and kidnapping fled to Mexico to stay out of prison.
4. Got To Copy Movies
Aired 27 October 2011 • 45 min
JohnnyRay Gasca, a successful video pirate, scams the film industry while partying with celebrities and hiding from the law. Gasca went to prison for attempted murder and U.S. Marshals believe Gasca's illicit lifestyle will soon turn violent.
5. Got To Burn A Truck
Aired 3 November 2011
Jermaine LeBron and a group of friends murder a man in Florida and steal his expensive truck. LeBron then teams up with Howard Kendall to continue the crime spree. Their plan unravels when the friends confess to the murder and rats LeBron out to police.
6. Got To Pose As A Firefighter
Aired 10 November 2011 • 45 min
Fired from his job as a fashion writer, Peter Braunstein vows to take revenge on the fashionistas who snubbed him. Posing as a firefighter, he kidnaps a co-worker and terrorizes her for 16 hours before leading detectives on a multi-state chase.
7. Got To Be A Car Salesman
Aired 17 November 2011 • 45 min
A freak accident threatens to send a criminal-turned-car salesman back to jail.
8. Got To Steal A Rich Woman's Jewelry
Aired 1 December 2011 • 45 min
In 1985 Kaysie Dudley's mother gets fired from her job as a caregiver for an elderly widow and the pair plot to steal her rings as revenge. When the 77-year-old woman unexpectedly puts up a fight, Dudley resorts to the unthinkable -cold blooded murder.
9. Got To Make A Dummy Out Of Sheets
Aired 8 December 2011 • 45 min
With seven escapes under his belt, Frankie Lee Bass will stop at nothing to be free. While facing five life sentences for a spree of Florida robberies, Bass makes a daring escape and goes on the run.
10. Got To Escape From The Rock
Aired 15 December 2011 • 45 min
By the age of 17, William Van Poyck is convicted of robbery and serves 6 years behind bars before escaping from a maximum security prison. In 1987, he prepares for his most daring crime yet; ambushing a prison transport van.
11. Got To Run To Mexico With My Kids
Aired 22 December 2011 • 45 min
In July of 2009, Valerie Castellano robs a bank in rural Indiana. She flees with her three children and her girlfriend to Mexico. Back in Indiana, police focus their attention on Valerie's mother, hoping she will be the key to her daughter's capture.
12. Got To Pretend I'm A Priest
Aired 29 December 2011
A con artist keeps reinventing himself.
13. Got To Escape Underground
Aired 5 January 2012 • 45 min
Man learns the true cost of being on the run.