Series synopsis
I (Almost) Got Away With It is an American documentary crime television series that premiered on Investigation Discovery on January 12, 2010. It ended on July 15, 2016. It stars Tony Toste, Bill Ratner and Quint Gabriel.
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.
Premise
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.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Tony Toste as Buck/Police Officer
- Bill Ratner as Narrator
- Quint Gabriel as FBI Agent, Intelligence analyst, Police Officer, Prisioner 2
Guest cast
- Tommy Wright as Larry McClendon
- Patrick Engler as Mark Harden
- Kristi Swensson as Detective Debbie Potter
- Michael Placencia as SWAT Leader
- Nathaniel 'Nate' Scott as Sgt. Michael Garrett
- Iván Jesús Herrera as Gamer
Episodes
This series spans 8 seasons with 93 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | January 12, 2010 | April 6, 2010 |
| Season 2 | 13 | October 26, 2010 | January 18, 2011 |
| Season 3 | 13 | April 12, 2011 | July 19, 2011 |
| Season 4 | 13 | October 6, 2011 | January 5, 2012 |
| Season 5 | 13 | April 11, 2012 | July 31, 2012 |
| Season 6 | 10 | June 24, 2013 | August 12, 2013 |
| Season 7 | 8 | June 2, 2014 | July 28, 2014 |
| Season 8 | 10 | May 13, 2016 | July 15, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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. |
January 12, 2010 |
| 2 |
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. |
January 19, 2010 |
| 3 |
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. |
January 26, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got Caught By a Cougar Robert Spencer, a Jacksonville drug dealer, is known for his temper. One day, he gets angry at his girlfriend and fires a series of shots into her window with the intention of scaring her. She is hit and dies. |
October 26, 2010 |
| 2 |
Got to Roll the Dice Phillip Anthony Williams of Albuquerque murders his ex-girlfriend as she attempts to get into her car after work. |
November 2, 2010 |
| 3 |
Got a Dead Man's ID Michael Hess of Tampa, Florida is sentenced to 35 years in prison for a series of convenience store robberies. After seven years as a model prisoner, he escapes and catches a bus to California. |
November 9, 2010 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got a Country Legend's Tour Bus Career criminal Christopher Daniel Gay hears his mother is dying and escapes custody again to see her. After spending the night hiding in the woods, Gay steals a pickup truck, abandons it a few hours later, and then steals a Walmart truck. |
April 12, 2011 |
| 2 |
Got That Tough Girl Look Following the murder of Earl Mason in a Daytona Beach motel, the three perpetrators, Jason Bowman, William McMinn, and Juanita Liebman, flee to Texas. |
April 19, 2011 |
| 3 |
Got a Bad Temper While awaiting trial in Oklahoma, Aurlieas Dante McClarty robs a taco shop and uses the money to flee to Los Angeles, then Cleveland, Orlando, Laurel, Maryland, and finally North Carolina. |
April 26, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got To Ride The Rails A neighbor calls 911 when she smells smoke coming from an apartment shared by Ricky Sleight and William Baldi. The police find Baldi's dead body, but Sleight escapes by riding freight trains across the country. The FBI turns to the media for help. |
October 6, 2011 |
| 2 |
Got To Wear A Pink Shirt Abraham Cavazos shoots a man at a party and flees to Juarez, Mexico to disappear. Cavazos uses multiple women to support him in Mexico. He changes identities, locations and girlfriends, but it's not enough to keep authorities from tracking him down. |
October 13, 2011 |
| 3 |
Got To Silence A Witness An Oklahoma drug lord who was wanted for murder and kidnapping fled to Mexico to stay out of prison. |
October 20, 2011 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got to Hide Out in Suburbia 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 to the suburbs. But soon the FBI finds him and corners him at a busy subway station. |
April 11, 2012 |
| 2 |
Got to Murder My Own Family 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. He calls a friend for help at a rest area but gets caught and sent back to prison. |
April 18, 2012 |
| 3 |
Got to Build a Bridge to Freedom 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. With the help of his family, Johnson stays hidden from the law until a tip leads police right to his whereabouts. |
April 24, 2012 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got to Kill My Step-Dad In Miami, Florida, teenage Randy Baggett is sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for killing his abusive stepfather. He escapes from the high security prison and treks through the woods as police dogs search for him. |
June 24, 2013 |
| 2 |
Got to Escape Through a Toilet A pair of friends and criminals escape from prison in 2009 and lead police on a manhunt across the Southeast. |
July 1, 2013 |
| 3 |
GOT to Pose as a War Vet Posing as a veteran and preying on women to get cash, cars, and even a house, Jerrod Durr finds himself in a multistate game of cat and mouse with cops. |
July 8, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got to Be a Ladies' Man David Corbin is a career criminal. After a stint in prison, Corbin launches a crime wave, stealing cars and selling them for a profit. But when a jealous girlfriend rats him out, Corbin is caught and sent to prison where he pulls off a daring escape. |
June 2, 2014 |
| 2 |
Got to Fall in Love with a Prison Guard In Joplin, Missouri, 19-year-old Terry Banks kills his 17-year-old girlfriend's husband with help from his friend Matt Meyers. Meyers gets 67 years in prison, while Banks is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. |
June 9, 2014 |
| 3 |
Got a Rich Widow Tired of receiving bad treatment from his wealthy clients, country club tennis instructor Brian Maurice Fuller decides to start robbing them. |
June 16, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Got to Pretend to Be a Cop Peter Gibbs faces a long stretch in prison for a string of robberies but he refuses to go down without a fight. |
May 13, 2016 |
| 2 |
Got a Handsome Face Bank robber Steven Ray Milam is called the Handsome Guy Bandit as he makes a costly mistake forcing him to leave his family and go on the run. |
May 20, 2016 |
| 3 |
Got to Taunt the Cops Jimmy Maxwell's volatile nature sees him being a menace to authorities every time they manage to corner him after he escapes from prison. |
May 27, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Investigation Discovery |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 12, 2010 |
| Last aired | July 15, 2016 |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Friday at 22:00:00 |