Word: jailbreaker
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...suspects are Francis Leroy Hohimer, 46, now serving sentences totaling 30 years for armed robbery in the Iowa state penitentiary, and Frederick Malchow, a onetime crony of Hohimer's who died one year after the murder in a plunge from a railroad trestle after a Pennsylvania jailbreak. The two men were members of what authorities believe was a Mafia-backed band of thieves that flourished nationwide from 1965 to 1967, specializing in robbing the homes of the wealthy. In exchange for a cut of two-thirds of the gang's take, the Mafia offered planning expertise as well...
...week's end, despite a massive police and army manhunt, the escapees had not been found. To add insult to injury, the daring jailbreak cost the I.R.A. not a penny. Irish Helicopters Ltd. had rented the Alouette to the mysterious "Mr. Leonard" without asking for any advance payment...
WASHINGTON-The FBI announced Tuesday night the arrest of Angela Yvonne Davis, the former U. C. L. A. philosophy instructor sought in connection with an attempted California jailbreak in which a judge and two convicts were killed...
...from others, mauled by twenty or thirty people. And the something and something else; I had cast the scenario all afternoon. The rock-throwing affinity groups seemed to know what they were doing. They also seemed to be largely high-school age, perhaps organized in a Weatherman "jailbreak...
...Charles Wilson, escaping jail as Biggs had, fled to Rigaud, Canada, with his wife and three children. But the jailbreak cost $140,000 (for men to free him with cleverly counterfeit keys), and the flight from England about as much. The Wilsons lived in constant terror of attracting attention. "The nagging fear of discovery," said Patricia Wilson, "gave me a permanent headache." Said her husband, recaptured in January 1968: "It wasn't worth...