9. Steven Jay Russell – Escaped For Love
Russell escaped quite a few times just so he could be with his boyfriend, whom he met in prison. The story is so odd that it inspired the movie I Love You Phillip Morris.
Russell was in prison for fraud. After he and cellmate Phillip Morris fell in love, they were both released. That could have been the end of the story but Russell was soon back in prison again for embezzling. He simply could not stand to be without Morris and escaped by calling the bail office, pretending to be a judge, and lowered his own bail from $950,000 to $45,000. He was caught but then escaped by impersonating a doctor and walking out the door before being recaptured.
This last one takes the cake though: He convinced the prison he had AIDS, (he didn’t) and was released, to a treatment center that didn’t exist ( he had set it up pretending to be a prison doctor. He later tried to declare himself dead. He was caught and sentenced to 144 years.
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