Ten Best Prison Breaks
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Catholic dissenter John Gerard fled on a rope stretched from the Tower roof to a getaway rowboat.
Libby Prison
(1864)
Captive Union soldiers
tunneled from this Virginia prison into a nearby yard; 109 walked
away.
Lake County
Jail (1934)
John Dillinger, brandishing a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish,
bailed
in the sheriff's Ford.
Auschwitz
(1944)
Rudolf
Vrba and Alfred
Wetzler hid in a woodpile for days before trekking to the Slovakian
border.
Stalag Luft
III (1944)
POWs excavated three tunnels below this Nazi
stronghold. Only three of 76 men got away, but it's still known
as the
Great Escape.
July 1, 2009
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