I Almost Got Away With It

2010 β€’ Investigation Discovery
4.7
228 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 5 episodes (13)

1 GOT to Hide Out in Suburbia
4/11/12
Robert Jeffery loses his entire drug business in a fire. In order to pay off his supplier, he robs a bank but is arrested. He escapes from jail and survives by dealing drugs and pulling scams, until he meets a woman and moves. Soon the FBI finds him.
2 GOT to Murder My Own Family
4/18/12
After killing his step-mom and three young brothers, James Wiley is given a life sentence. He escapes into the Wyoming wilderness and hides under the wheel of a big rig, holding on for dear life as the truck heads down the highway.
3 GOT to Build a Bridge to Freedom
4/25/12
Nicholas Johnson is a teenage robber terrorizing the streets of Portland, Oregon. After getting caught, he plans an elaborate escape and slips past the prison's high-level security system. Johnson stays hidden from the law with the help of his family.
4 GOT to Build a Meth Lab
5/2/12
Jerry Wright builds a booming meth business in the Tennessee hills until his makeshift lab blows up. During a fight over money, Wright kills a man and runs to his sister's in Ohio but gets caught. He escapes from prison but only for so long.
5 GOT to Run with My Brother
5/9/12
Mark and Maverick Maher are punks who form their own militia - a band of youths who rob houses and break into cars. After sending a threatening audio tape to police, they go on the run, living in the Florida swamps.
6 GOT to Rob Vacation Homes
5/16/12
William Alderman robs to support his girlfriend and her 3-year-old daughter. The trio heads to Idaho, breaking into vacation homes and using the little girl to help carry out the crimes. During a botched robbery, a man is killed and the family runs.
7 GOT to Run to Costa Rica
5/23/12
David Harden is a clean-cut businessman living a double life as a burglar. His drug habit forces him to commit more daring crimes until he gets caught. He runs to Costa Rica, pulling scams until a friend turns on him.
8 GOT to Prey on Tourists
5/30/12
Patsy Jones is the leader of a band of thieves, targeting tourists leaving the Miami airport by robbing and carjacking them at gunpoint. One night, a tourist fails to stop and Jones shoots and kills him. She hides in an abandoned apartment.
9 GOT to Make It In the Big Easy
6/6/12
Jeremy Woods is a con-artist with a love for violence. He convinces his girlfriend to forge bad checks and murders her and her son so he can walk away a free man. He flees to New Orleans but is arrested on unrelated charges and confesses to the murder.
10 GOT to Become a Neo-Nazi
6/13/12
John Ditullio is wanted for assault charges and joins the American Nazi Party. In a rage fit he beats a homeless man to death and kills a neighbor who he feels is an enemy of the white race. After a tense fight, he is captured and now serves time in FL.
11 GOT to Take Down My Ex-Boyfriend
6/20/12
Two stories of fugitives determined to evade capture. First, serial robber Roy Betts accidentally shoots a man and launches a statewide manhunt to find and arrest him. Next, Donna Schatz goes on the run after carrying out a violent vendetta on her ex.
12 GOT Hammered on a Sailboat
6/27/12
Two men become fugitives from the law. First, Howard murders a man and flees to New York, where he plots a daring escape. Then, Brendan breaks out of jail by overpowering a guard. When his mother is arrested for helping him, the chase is on.
13 GOT to Make You A Superstar
7/31/12
Two stories of fugitives on the run. First, a scam artist cons aspiring artists out of millions. But when one victim demands justice, a high-profile manhunt ensues. Then, a modern day Bonnie and Clyde eludes police until a slip-up leads to their doorstep.

About this show

In I Almost Got Away With It, watch as fugitives talk about their lives on the run, how they survived, where they went and how they almost got away with it.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
228 reviews
Ted Jordan
December 28, 2022
One of the best shows on television. My favorite this season was the guy that finally pretended to be a priest to escape the law. At least he taught me something...you must do your homework.
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Mike Gildon
December 6, 2018
I like seeing how they get out, how they live on the run for however long it is, an then how they get busted. Also what they did to get arrested in the first place, an how much time they are facing. I just hate how they drag it out in between commercial
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Poly Black
July 25, 2022
Depictions are to entice viewers shock and awe, and not truly tell the whole story, with false edits, gloomy music and should be ashamed of the exploitation of human beings for profit.
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