I (Almost) Got Away with It

- Season 2

(2010)

Robert Spencer has just shot his girlfriend. He is a thug and drug dealer, who in a blind panic gets high and goes on the run, living every day as a party. He finds the affection of a friend's mother, which ultimately leads to his arrest.

With 41 arrests and no convictions, Philip Williams had no worries that stabbing his ex in a parking lot would give him any trouble. But when he became a wanted man, he hit the road. Surviving on his gambling wins, Williams kept on the move.

Michael Hess is a wanted prison escapee on the run with a new identity and has been living in the same town he is wanted in for two decades. Hess learns to beat the system and enjoy his new life of work, weed and women before he's busted.

When Edward Roberson and two fellow inmates went to the showers, they didn't come back. Breaking out, the three scale the fences and run for it. Roberson has escaped and now has stolen guns, in a stolen car running for his life.

Courtenay Savage works in law enforcement. When she gets sick, she puts her business in the hands of a friend who neglects & destroys it. She fires shots into her home to scare her, not knowing she is caught on camera. She goes on the run.

Raymond Ross skips town after beating a teen into a coma. With his cousin, who is also wanted, Ross enters the drug scene selling dope and his own music. After a close call, Ross decides to let loose and party hard while police close in on this trail.

Steve Lamb grew up as a middle class beach boy, but dreamt big. He started by moving small amounts of pot from Mexico, which opened doors to larger business with Jamaica. By the time he was 20, Lamb was part of the "Steinhatchee Seven," a group of young, easygoing drug traffickers who were making millions. Lamb's life was spent in and out of jail, hiding from undercover cops, and moving thousands of bails of marijuana across the ocean. With all the close calls, it was finally a sting operation that caught Lamb with a thousand pounds of marijuana.

What was planned as an easy robbery turns into The Carnegie Deli Murders. Sean Salley shoots an actress and her friends above a deli in New York, and flees to New Orleans and then to Miami where he plans to leave the country for good.

In 1997 members of the Republic of Texas separatist group took Joe Rowe and his wife hostage. The Texas Rangers were able to negotiate their release, and capture four separatists, however two members, Richard Keyes and Mike Matson got away. Fleeing into the mountainous hills of Davis, Texas they spent two days evading helicopters and police dogs, eventually Matson pulls his pistol, preferring to go out in standoff. Keyes keeps running. Using an underground Militia group, Keyes is able to hideout in the woods undetected, until a tail leads the FBI to his hideout, and ...

Life as drug dealer's muscle is not going to keep you out of trouble. Lane Slettvet, knew this, but tested fate until one night on a job to retrieve a prostitute from another drug dealer, Slettvet stabs and kills the man. Trying to lay low with his sister, and under the radar of the cops proves hard for Slettvet, constantly drawn to the life of parties, fights and drugs. Then one night, in a drunken stupor, Slettvet breaks a bottle over a taxi driver's head. The incident is reported, and Slettvet's run comes to an end.

When a career in drug smuggling, turned him into a witness to a murder, Anthony Ragno turned informant for the FBI hoping to lower his smuggling sentence. He decided to go on the run. Ragno builds a new life working small pot trafficking systems in the Haitian islands. With elaborate boat swaps and many close calls with local government and the FBI. With a fake name he was back in Florida where success was slowly taken away by an addiction to coke. Ragno was finally caught with a $20 bag and borrowed clothes on his back.

Eric Quesada and Michael Newhouse grew up as best friends, until high school gang life separated them. After a confrontation in a mall, Quesada made threats and one night did a drive by, killing Newhouse. Quesada went on the run to Mexico, using family connections to stay on the move. Eric had a close call, when a tipster called the Marshals at gave up his location. Quesada was caught with the joined forces of Mexican and US officials. He spent 2 years fighting extradition before he was sent back to the US and sentenced to 99 years.

Randall Zandstra hid at his ex-wife's place with a gun, waiting for a shot at her new boyfriend. He got one, but he also got 12 years in prison. Due to a technicality, a retrial was called. Zandstra fled. He ran to Vegas, winning big in tournaments. He also ran mail scams, but he got caught. With a stream of fraud trials Zandstra is transferred to multiple states but along the way he escapes. US Marshals tracked Zandstra down, where he makes a last attempt for freedom, crawling from the car-wreck with a broken leg, hand and back. He is now in a New Jersey prison.