I (Almost) Got Away With It
I (Almost) Got Away With It
2010
8 Seasons
6.4
DocumentaryCrime

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

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E1Jan 12, 2010

Got Remarried

Michael McGuffey murders his estranged wife in a parking lot in Mt. Vernon, Washington in front of several witnesses and flees to Texas and from there to Mexico City.

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E2Jan 19, 2010

Got Dumped

Michael Alfonso shoots his ex-girlfriend Sumanear Yang in the head. Nine years later, he shot another girlfriend, Genoveva Velasquez, and fled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, finding a job as a bartender.

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E3Jan 26, 2010

Got No Fingerprints

Jerry Bowen, a drywall contractor in Huntsville, Alabama, murders his ex-wife. Her body is discovered two months later in a river, wrapped in plastic and chains.

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E4Feb 2, 2010

Got a Video Rental Store

In 1975, Michael Wayne Brown is one of a trio of teens committing a string of burglaries. One night, they are in the process of burglarizing an insurance office when they are surprised to see the owner appear.

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E5Feb 9, 2010

Got Two Homes in Mexico

Gonzalo Martinez shoots three people in gang-related violence and is sentenced to 48 years in prison for the attempted murders. Martinez and three other inmates escape and flee to Denver.

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E6Feb 16, 2010

Got the Wrong Four People Killed

Dorsey Sanders III and Scott Burnside hire John Barrett to kill Dorsey's mother Joanne. Barrett botches the hit, instead killing Joanne's new fiancé and three workers in the process of renovating the house.

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E7Feb 23, 2010

Got Caught in the Shower

Richard Garber murders his neighbor Janio Moraes over a dispute about money. Garber and his girlfriend Anna then head to Las Vegas.

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E8Mar 2, 2010

Got to Sing Karaoke

Joe Crouch of Memphis, Tennessee is a compulsive gambler whose addiction has led him to write bad checks for over $80,000. When he discovers that he is facing criminal charges, he confesses his crimes to his wife.

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E9Mar 9, 2010

Got Revenge

Drug enforcer Marshall Brown is sentenced to life in prison for murdering a witness scheduled to testify against him. After spending 16 years as a model prisoner, he escapes and reenters the drug trade.

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E10Mar 16, 2010

Got to Rob Banks

Joe Loya lives a double life as a charming man, working as a cook at a restaurant, playing golf, and wearing expensive designer clothes. His friends think highly of him. Meanwhile, he is secretly a career bank robber whom police have dubbed the "Beirut bandit" due to his dark complexion.

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E11Mar 23, 2010

Go to Go to Canada

Scott Freeburg has been in and out of prison since age 18. While working as an enforcer for a drug dealer, he gets into a fight with his victim, whom he shoots to death with the victim's gun.

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E12Mar 30, 2010

Got a Gun Made Out of Toilet Paper

Kerry Silvers is serving a 61-year sentence for robbery and other crimes. Four years into his sentence, he and two other inmates escape in a stolen car.

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E13Apr 6, 2010

Got to Get Bike Parts

Marvin Carson is a member of a motorcycle gang. One day, a friend who broke up with her boyfriend, a rival biker gang member, asks Carson to go to her ex's house and retrieve her bike. He does so. When the rival biker threatens Carson's friends, Carson shoots one of his rivals.

Top Cast

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Tony Toste

Detective Mederos/SWAT Team SGT.

Bill Ratner

Bill Ratner

Narrator

Quint Gabriel

Quint Gabriel

FBI Agent, Intelligence analyst, Police Officer, Prisioner 2