This man is serving life in prison for amazingly escaping several times, mind blown

[blckndyllw]

Russell claimed his life of crime started in the early 1990s when he was fired from his job as an executive of a food service company after his employers found out he was homosexual. He was later arrested for fraud for faking a slip-and-fall accident, and was sentenced to six months in prison. After serving four weeks in the Harris County jail, Russell escaped on May 12, 1992, by using a spare set of civilian clothes and a walkie talkie to impersonate a guard. He later went to take care of his boyfriend Jimmy Cambell who was dying of AIDS; Cambell died three weeks after Russell was re-arrested and sent back to Harris County jail.

While in prison Russell met Phillip Morris, with whom he quickly fell in love. The two were later released from prison, and wanting to give Morris a glamorous lifestyle, Russell managed to get a job as the chief financial officer of North American Medical Management (NAMM). He then started embezzling funds, stealing $800,000 before the activity was detected and Russell and Morris were arrested. Sent back to the Harris County jail, Russell, considered a flight risk, had his bail set at $950,000, but later made his next escape by calling the Harris County Records Office, pretending to be a judge, and lowering his bail from $950,000 to $45,000 before posting the reduced bail. He was later tracked down via trap-and-trace phonecalls when he called his friends asking for money. He was arrested in a hotel room in West Palm Beach, Florida one week after his second escape.

Russell was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the NAMM fraud and was sent to the Maximum Security Estelle Unit in Huntsville, Texas. Russell concocted a new escape after he began collecting green highlighter markers and a spare prison uniform and used his cell toilet to dye the uniform green to look like doctor's scrubs. He then walked out of the front door and hiked away from the prison to a house where he convinced a man to give him a ride into town. He then took a taxi to Houston. After tracking down Morris, on bail awaiting trial for his involvement in the NAMM case, he convinced him to run with him and the two fled to Biloxi, Mississippi, making money in casinos, where Russell was later identified and arrested by a U.S. Marshal. Morris was also quickly found and arrested.

He was sent back to a maximum security prison in Texas to serve an additional and cumulative 45-year sentence. From here, Russell made his most inventive escape ever; he used acting and laxatives to fake the symptoms of AIDS, and a prison typewriter to fake his medical records to show him as HIV positive, being granted a special-needs parole to a nursing home to die. He then called the prison and parole board, posing as a doctor and AIDS specialist, asking for prisoners interested in an experimental treatment, and volunteered. Once out of Texas, he then sent death certificates to the prison and parole board stating he had died.

While out on the run, Russell (determined to get Morris out of prison) managed to make up an attorney's bar card. He then called the Estelle Unit where Morris was serving his time, posing as a judge, and issued a bench warrant to have Morris moved to a Dallas prison so he could visit him disguised as his attorney Jean Louis without being recognized. U.S. Marshals visited the prison to find Russell already gone. He then dropped off the radar for a period of time.

On March 20, 1998, Russell posed as a millionaire from Virginia in an attempt to legitimize a $75,000 loan from NationsBank in Dallas; when bank officials became suspicious and alerted the police, Russell feigned a heart attack and was transported to a hospital. Russell was placed on security watch but he impersonated an FBI agent and called the hospital on his cell phone to tell them he could be released.

U.S. Marshals later tracked Russell down in Florida where they arrested him when he went to retrieve a fax. Russell was then sentenced to a total of 144 years in prison (99 years for the escapes and 45 years for subsequent scams).

As of 2010, Russell, Texas Department of Criminal Justice #00760259, is located in the Polunsky Unit, on a 23-hour lockup, only having one free hour a day to shower and exercise to prevent him from escaping. His release date from prison is July 12, 2140.

Cliffs: anything is everything is possible when you put your mind in to it.

[doughnutking]

A pity he didn't put that mind into something legal, maybe he would be a rich ******* and not in prison.

[GoodGeneticsPls]

We Michael Schofield now

[NinjaNoir]

Wow he should be released just on the principal that he is awesome.

[martinbowhunter]

A pity he didn't put that mind into something legal

This

[Ewind]

lol I can only imagine what a highlighter dyed outfit looks like.

[AGstrong]

Wow damn. Inb4 big budget Hollywood blockbuster

[Darkeen]

Smart enough to escape multiple times but dumb enough to get caught over and over...

[dave.mc]

interesting story, thanks OP

[Quibble]

I would certainly pardon him.

[derkerkjerk]

Wow, his escapes were elaborate as hell with all the impersonations.

Just read an article about a real-life robin hood (still on the run) in Italy who has escaped by helicopter twice right out of the prison yard.

[NotANun21]

I heard of a prisoner from Australia who kept escaping, had 8 attempt I think it was

The transferred him to the highest security prison and built him a special cell deemed strong enough to hold him

Confident in the strength of their cell they told him if he escaped from that he would go free

He did

[residesinAZ]

Wow damn. Inb4 big budget Hollywood blockbuster

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045772/...nm_flmg_act_12

[Angra_Mainyu]

[DLTBB]

Cool story. Srs.

[Evolutionary1]

Smart enough to escape multiple times but dumb enough to get caught over and over...

this

[RCAK]

You just know he's plotting something during his hour of exercise per day.

[dustwyrm]

putincookie.pjg

[mdrive22]

inb4 another movie like catch me if you can

[blckndyllw]

Wow damn. Inb4 big budget Hollywood blockbuster

Too late, sort of

Steven Jay Russell (born September 14, 1957) is a U.S. con artist known for escaping from prison multiple times. A film about his life and crimes was produced in 2009, named I Love You Phillip Morris. In 2011, his crimes were featured on the TV show I Almost Got Away with It in the episode "Got a Boyfriend to Support.". He is known to be the only con artist in the world serving a 140 year sentence. A documentary about his crimes was aired on TV in 2005 On The Run episode "King of Cons" on Discovery Channel.

[Adr3nALinRuSh]

Is this real life?? This could be a good movie

[Nzmisc]

this sounds like the TV show prision break. even down to the dyed sht...

[Coffeejunky]

Cool story. Srs.

looking thick solid tight, lemme tap that ass

[Indivdude]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1045772/...nm_flmg_act_12

[KizzaK]

Wheres scylla!!??

[RightTricepBrah]

neat

[Sakeoe]

Should get pardoned lol, fcking amazing.

[GMFB702]

Cool read op

[gharamlifter]

"He later went to take care of his boyfriend Jimmy Cambell who was dying of AIDS"

stopped reading after that. srs.

[blckndyllw]

"He later went to take care of his boyfriend Jimmy Cambell who was dying of AIDS"

stopped reading after that. srs.

Good you filthy red Canadian