Hello everyone here is D Explore. Jailbreak movies and televisions should have been seen, but the real prison escape stories are often more exciting than movies, such as the one we are going to talk about today, he was put in prison four times, but successfully escaped four times. The real experience sounds unbelievable, because if the movie is made like this, you may think that this is simply a divine drama. If you don't believe me, look down.
The god-level performance is about to begin
It all started in January 1996, when the North American Medical Administration in Houston was looking for a new financial director these days when a candidate came into their sights: 38-year-old Steven Jay Russell.
The big guy debuted
Not only does Steven have a law degree from Tennessee, he is also The Prudential Group's Best Employee of the Year, and everyone who writes him a letter of recommendation is a talent that many companies are desperately trying to retain.
The company's top brass liked Steven
As a result, Stephen stood out from the crowd of excellent contenders and became the Financial Director of the North American Medical Authority.
During Steven's tenure, the work was really well done, and his relationship with his leading colleagues was handled very well. The company's top brass agreed that this was the best financial director they had ever hired. It wasn't until Stephen's boss offered to sell his house to him that all began to change.
The boss sold Stephen a villa cheaply
For this cost-effective sale, Stephen called the bank to apply for a mortgage. The bank also happened to be the bank where the company opened an account, and everything was going well, and Steven's house seemed to be about to arrive. But at this time, a bank employee carefully examined the North American Medicines Authority's funding accounts.
On the surface of the company's account, Stephen's clever investment has made millions of dollars for the company, and usually the company's large amount of funds usually exists in the bank to earn interest, but the bank employees who checked the account found that Stephen cooperated with some bank commissioners and embezzled the company's interest of $840,000 in 6 months.
The bank called the whistleblower directly to the CEO, and it was only then that the other side of Steven was discovered.
The bank revealed the information to Boss Stephen
But the next day, Stephen happened to overhear his boss talking on the phone at the company, and he realized that something was wrong, so he didn't stop and fled.
Stephen overheard the boss's phone
Pick up the box and leave
After this, the company leaders discovered an even more frightening fact, it turned out that Stephen was not the person they thought he was, he did not have those glorious experiences of the past, and he only had a high school diploma. So how did Steven cheat on experienced company executives when he applied?
It turned out that in order to deceive the position of financial director, Stephen first published an advertisement in the newspaper himself, modeled on a company to recruit a financial director to collect resumes. Relying on the resumes of others he received, he made the perfect version of his resume.
Steven posts job postings
Stephen made the perfect resume for himself
He also studied the Wall Street Journal and went to the library to look up materials. So he was very well prepared when he applied, and finally he convinced the hiring manager. Of course, the presidents of the North American Medical Administration actually verified his letter of recommendation. It's just that they don't know that their phone call actually hit Steven's own forwarding number, and Steven just disguised his voice slightly on the phone and then exaggerated himself.
Pretending to be a referrer answers the phone to boast about yourself
But the North American Medicines Authority scam is just the tip of the iceberg, and it may not be long before Steven's colleagues discover his amazing true identity and will also discover how capable he really is. So who the hell is Steven? Where did he come from?
Stephen actually grew up in California, and he grew up out of tune with the children around him, he just liked to talk to adults.
Stephen was different from an early age
He originally lived in a happy family, but when he was 9 years old, he was suddenly told by his parents that he was adopted.
"Well, actually you jumped out of the cracks in the stone."
Little Stephen was hit
The incident hit him so hard that he began to set fire to his anger, burning his grandparents' home and his uncle's house, as well as burning shops and schools. And he usually calls the fire alarm after setting the fire, and also directs the firefighters to the fire point to fight the fire.
Little Stephen took pleasure in setting fire to his house
But his tricks were eventually discovered, because the boy did not change his teachings, so at the age of 12, Stephen was sent to the correctional institution by his parents.
He couldn't take care of it anymore, and he was sent to a correctional institution
Here he realized two important things. First, he found himself a homosexual. Second, he found himself extremely intelligent, second only to Einstein in IQ.
I went, I actually liked...
In order to leave the correctional home, Stephen deliberately put on braces to hurt his teeth, and then kept asking to see a dentist.
Bring braces and pretend to straighten your teeth
Because it became so cumbersome to take care of him, the correctional institution could no longer stand it, so in 1971, Stephen was eventually expelled from the correctional home.
We can't take care of your children, so take them away
For the next twenty years, he also tried to get back on the right path and do some serious work, but eventually resisted the temptation to go down the path of crime.
Stephen began to let go of himself
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In 1992, Stephen was sentenced to 10 years in prison for insurance fraud, and from the first moment he entered prison, he had no intention of staying, he had been watching for opportunities.
Stephen began to observe the prison
He first injured himself and was transferred to a different cell.
The big guy beat himself up
He also bribed prison guards to arrange for him to push a food truck. And this work familiarized him with the terrain of the prison.
Prisons are observed using food delivery
Not long after he decided to start the escape plan, Stephen stole some clothes from the new female prisoners, sold bread to the guards, and stole a walkie-talkie. He then put on a pair of red pants and a vest, combined with a walkie-talkie, and dressed himself as a prison worker. Knocked on the window with a walkie-talkie, and then a prison guard let him out the door without looking at him.
This look is a big guy at first glance
To escape from prison is to get out of the main entrance
You heard that right, Steven walked out of prison with a big swing. After escaping from prison, he also used walkie-talkies to trick the police into going to where he wasn't there to find him.
There's a reason Stephen is so desperate to escape from prison. It all started with his lover, Jimmy.
The love of his life Jimmy (left)
A year ago, when Stephen was on vacation, he met a concierge, Jimmy, and the two quickly developed into lovers. Soon after, Jimmy confesses that he has AIDS, but Stephen accepts this fact and still loves the man deeply.
Brother, I have AIDS! .... All right
But it wasn't long before Stephen was caught for fraud. After hearing the news of Jimmy's deterioration in prison, he was very anxious and decided to try his best to escape.
Steven was anxious to learn that Jimmy's condition had deteriorated
After escaping from prison, Stephen and her boyfriend Jimmy have been hiding in tibet, but Jimmy's condition has become more and more serious, during which time Stephen has been sent back to prison again for bank fraud. A month later, in July 1994, Jimmy died.
Take care of Jimmy daily after escaping from prison
Because of this disease, Stephen had been constantly fighting Jimmy's insurance company, which made him resentful. He had vowed to make insurance companies pay the price. That's why Steven scammed the North American Medical Authority. Because in his opinion, the North American Medical Authority is the same as those insurance companies, although this is not the case.
Steven decided to take revenge on the insurance company
In the spring of 1995, a few months after Jimmy's death, Stephen was transferred to the Harris County Jail. In the prison library, he meets a new love of his life, Philip, and the two quickly become lovers.
The big guy never loves the old
A few months later Steven was released on bail, and soon there was the opening scene, where he was the financial director of the North American Medical Administration and bought a large house in Houston. At this time, Philip also happened to be released from prison. Stephen was very generous to Philip, buying him a lot of high-end furniture and high-end jewelry, and only wanted to make Philip happy.
The big guys are very focused on each one
Four months later, Stephen's huge sum of 850,000 yuan from the North American Medical Administration was discovered, and the police arrested him everywhere, and he took Philip into a small motel around Houston.
The two hid in the motel
During this period, he also disguised himself as a variety of identities and called the prosecutor to ask about the progress of his investigation, but the cleverness was mistaken by the clever, and these calls aroused the suspicion of the police, so the prosecutor decided to deal with him in a different way. They filed a secret indictment against Stephen and issued a secret wanted warrant, that is, not publicly known only to a few people.
When Steven called again to inquire, he was told there was no warrant for his arrest. Steven decided to go back to his home in Houston to sort things out, but he was arrested as soon as he got home.
Go home and get something and get caught
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Stephen was charged with felony theft and released on bail of $900,000. He didn't have that much money at all, but as a master of fraud, how could he just grab it? He didn't want to go to jail yet because he was afraid of losing Philip again.
So he first contacted his boyfriend Philips, asking him to forge a document with a small bail amount, and then secretly gave it to Stephen in prison. Steven sneaked the forged documents on the ground on the aisle to the bail hearing to trick the prison guards into believing that the court staff had just passed by.
ay? You see there's something on the ground
The document was sent to the county magistrate's office. Stephen then used the prison's coin-operated public telephone to have a friend transfer it to the county magistrate's office to make the call look like it had been made from outside the prison, and he lied that he was a judge and forgot to enter Steven's new bail into the system, hoping they would help complete it.
That, you re-enter it
In this way, the new bail order soon went into effect, and 2 hours later Stephen was free again.
Jailbreak, always just go to the front door
But this time he wasn't free for long. After escaping, the police listened to the phones of everyone involved with him and found him at a hotel in Florida.
Two down for a while, right?
Stephen, who could have reduced his time in prison to 15-20 years, is now directly sentenced to 45 years. And he was put in a double prison, deprived of his right to use the telephone, no visits, no grocery stores, nothing.
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Surprisingly, Stephen agreed to plead guilty, saying he was willing to serve a 45-year sentence. Stephen was then transferred to [Estelle] Prison, 90 miles away. The prison was known for its heavily guarded, and no one had ever escaped before, but that was before Stephen arrived.
The big guy has a new home
Stephen had been watching and waiting, and soon he saw the opportunity. He found that doctors often came to prison wearing green surgical gowns, much like the white prison uniforms.
Stephen notices that the doctor's clothes resemble those of a prisoner
So he said that he was sick and had severe diarrhea, so he was given special permission to take a few more prison clothes. Stephen used a magic marker to dye his prison uniform green and changed his prison PAPERS to the same red background as the staff.
How many markers do you have to steal?
The id card only needs to be changed in color
At 3 a.m., the prison was quiet, and Steven changed into a fake surgical gown and put on a fake ID. He was ready to escape through a series of locked iron doors. When the pickets at the gate saw someone approaching the door, if they were sure that the person was entitled to enter and exit, they would open the door and let him pass, and then close the door again.
Stephen prepares to leave disguised as a doctor, and deliberately chooses the early hours of the morning. For by then the pickets had been bored all night, when vigilance was at its lowest. And the janitor was still a newcomer that day, he looked at Stephen from a distance, and when he saw the green costume, he opened the door for Stephen without much thought.
The big guy escaped from prison, of course, or went through the front door
This time, Steven walked out with a big swing. It turned out that Stephen agreed to the 45-year sentence so that he could leave the county prison and enter the state prison, because the vigilance of the original prison was already very high, and the vigilance against him was not so high in the new prison.
By the time the police heard the news, Steven had already fled. As soon as he got out of prison, he ran straight into Philip's arms. The next day the couple quickly left the town, and the two set off for Roxy.
It was 10 days after Stephen's escape that the police finally got a clue. They tracked down the phones of everyone Stephen knew, including his deceased ex-boyfriend, Jimmy's mother. Stephen calls Jimmy's mother at a public telephone booth saying that she wants to go to her house with Philip for a few days, but the phone suddenly breaks during the call, much to Steven's dismay. So he decided to call back to find out, but it was this call that gave the police time to find out where he was, and finally, the police caught him on the highway. This time, both Steven and Phillip were taken to jail.
Alas, this holiday is a bit short
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Stephen was taken to prison and kept under intense surveillance. But the next year, there were rumors that he died of AIDS. Stephen was also given a sympathetic bail, and a few months later, official sources suddenly said he was dead. But is that really the case? The truth will surely surprise you.
Someone said I'm dead?
It turned out that when Steven was in prison, he secretly took laxatives, he hardly ate, and did everything in order to lose weight.
The big guy only eats laxatives every day
He also didn't know when he had tampered with his medical records to make him suffering from AIDS. Even more bizarrely, his medical records were taken in jail without being verified, and no one tested him for AIDS.
Stephen lost 45 pounds in a year in the infirmary, which made the doctor believe that he was indeed dying of AIDS. He also asked medical staff to send him to a nursing home to wait for his death.
The big guy seems to be really dying
After arriving at the nursing home, Stephen secretly called the director of the nursing home, saying that he was an AIDS expert from Houston, and that he needed to find a person who was dying of AIDS for his research. The dean said, we just happen to have Mr. Stephen here.
In this way, Stephen left the nursing home, and no one was suspicious during the whole process. In Houston, Stephen bought a stamp stamped with the Harris County seal and a surgical gown, then dressed as a doctor and went into a funeral home, where he asked for a death certificate, filled in his message, and sent it to his bail officer. After that, the bail officer thought That Stephen was really dead. The police officer who had arrested Stephen thought he was still serving a prison sentence.
If you don't do it, it's not a big guy
If the story ends here, Stephen will be able to evaporate from the world and get away with it, but he will continue to do it. Because a phone call from the U.S. Marshals Service broke the situation. They told the Fugitive Pursuit Brigade that there was a lot like Stephen who tried to use fake lawyers' cards. So why would Stephen pretend to be a lawyer? It turned out that he wanted to meet his lover Philip, who was still serving a prison sentence. Only then did Stephen re-enter the police's sights, and they immediately filed a case to arrest Steven, but they did not know that this person was Stephen.
Handsome or not?
The agent who captured Steven learned a surprising piece of information from an FBI eyeliner that was exactly the same as Steven's criminal method. It turned out that Stephen thought of a phone call from Atter, a rich man who was friends with his parents, and he called the Census Records Office and pretended to be Art and asked them to issue a copy of Art's birth certificate. Stephen used this certificate to get an Oklahoma driver's license.
Pretend to be a father friend and then take his money
Stephen then pretends to be the millionaire Art and goes to the bank to withdraw $75,000 in cash from his account, which is to be paid to Philip's lawyer.
Rich people come to withdraw money, how can they use ATMs? Actually, there is no card
The bank manager who received him became suspicious of Stephen because she knew that the amount could be withdrawn at the ATM, and the man did not know the name of his private bank account manager. So the bank manager pretended to be going through Steven, and then she went to the next room and called the FBI's bank robbery team.
And Steven also sensed that something was wrong, and he secretly followed the police call and knew that the matter had been exposed. So he quickly pretended to have a heart attack and fell to the ground.
It seems to have been discovered, fainted
Stephen was soon taken to Baylor Medical Center. The FBI rushed to the bank and pounced. But what Stephen didn't know was that Baylor Medical Center had a fixed police station. He was placed in a separate room with guards watching, while FBI men were on their way.
In the face of danger, there is also a chat with first responders on the road
This time he was really forced into a desperate situation, but to get everything done, he only needed a phone call.
He used his bedside landline to call the hospital he was working on, claiming to be from the FBI. The suspect who said you helped us detain can go, the suspect is not him, we don't need him anymore. By the time the FBI arrived, Stephen had already fled a few kilometers away. But he still left an important clue, that is, the id card in the hands of the bank clerk, and the police confirmed from the photo that he was indeed Stephen.
Stephen has also been in contact with Philip, who has visited the prison three times before posing as a lawyer. When the police found the prison, he just left.
Stephen decided to travel to Florida, where he wanted a facelift to change his facial features, and this time he decided to get out completely. At the same time, police also had a transcript of Stephen's call at the hotel. They discovered that Stephen was delinquently defrauding him and that someone was about to fax him documents, and finally the police found the location of the fax machine by fax number. When Stephen went to pick up the fax, he was caught by the police.
Amorous since ancient times empty hatred, good dreams are the easiest to wake up
After returning to prison, Stephen was sentenced to 144 years for property crimes and nonviolent escapes. But everyone is speculating about whether Stephen will escape from prison again. A lot of people think that he will definitely try again, and if he succeeds, it will not be surprising at all, because he is such a brilliant person.
The real Stephen Jay Russell
Later, his boyfriend Philip was released from prison and also broke off contact with Stephen. But Stephen says he never regretted falling in love with Philip or Jimmy. I have given them the best within the scope of my ability.
Stephen is an extremely intelligent person, he can always do amazing things, people are amazing, but it is such a person, but he has become a fool of love. Dictated by Stephen himself, his legendary experiences were written as autobiographical novels. And in 2009, it was made into a movie and put on the screen, the film starred the famous comedian Jim Carrey, called "I Love You Morris", In which Jim Carrey played Steven, interested friends can go to see.
"I Love You Morris" starring Jim Carrey
Stephen himself is still in prison, and as he gets older, he may no longer be able to escape from prison.
Video version of this article: "Real prison break genius, high IQ criminal successfully escaped four times"
Image source: The sixth episode of the documentary "Deception and Theft of Fame"