8.6/1011 votesLoading...#1 - Got to Be Bonnie and Clyde
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/2013
After getting arrested for robbery, Robert Askew runs from a work camp and goes back to stealing to make a living. Askew eventually gets caught again, but he escapes from jail during a hurricane and goes on a crime spree, breaking into vacation homes.
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#2 - Got to Be the Green Baron
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 8/12/2013
In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Tony Darwin and his group of 18 friends make their living smuggling marijuana from Jamaica into the United States. All are members of the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, which uses marijuana as a sacrament.
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#3 - Got Ninth Place at Poker
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/2011
After four years of marriage, 25-year-old Randall Zandstra and his wife separate. When he finds her with a new boyfriend, Zastra shoots the new boyfriend and flees.
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#4 - Got To Run To Mexico With My Kids
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/2011
In July of 2009, Valerie Castellano robs a bank in rural Indiana. She flees with her three children and her girlfriend to Mexico. Back in Indiana, police focus their attention on Valerie's mother, hoping she will be the key to her daughter's capture.
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- 8.4/1013 votesLoading...
#5 - Got to Work on a Crab Boat
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 7/19/2011
After robbing a bank in Florida, Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson flees to Alaska to and gets a job working on a crab boat for a season.
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#6 - Got to Get Home to Mother
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 6/17/2016
Robert Nielsen escapes from a Florida prison, where he has been serving a 25 year sentence for an armed robbery he committed when he was 16.
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- 8.2/1018 votesLoading...
#7 - Got To Pose As A Firefighter
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/10/2011
Fired from his job as a fashion writer, Peter Braunstein vows to take revenge on the fashionistas who snubbed him. Posing as a firefighter, he kidnaps a co-worker and terrorizes her for 16 hours before leading detectives on a multi-state chase.
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- 8.1/1011 votesLoading...
#8 - Got Shot Above a Deli
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2010
Manhattan drug dealer and aspiring rapper Sean Salley plans to rob a rival dealer with his accomplice, Andre Smith. The pair go to an apartment located above the Carnegie Deli and shoot all of the occupants execution style in order to leave no witnesses behind.
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#9 - Got a Boyfriend to Support
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/21/2011
Steven Jay Russell is fired from his food service job for being gay. He turns to low-level fraud and is sentenced to six months behind bars. After just one month, he escapes and flees to Florida,
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#10 - Got To Escape From The Rock
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2011
By the age of 17, William Van Poyck is convicted of robbery and serves 6 years behind bars before escaping from a maximum security prison. In 1987, he prepares for his most daring crime yet; ambushing a prison transport van.
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- 8.0/107 votesLoading...
#11 - Got to Run to Costa Rica
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 5/23/2012
David Harden is a clean-cut businessman living a double life as a burglar. His drug habit forces him to commit more daring crimes until he gets caught. He runs to Costa Rica, pulling scams until a friend turns on him. After getting deported, he sneaks out of prison hidden in a trash bin to live as a fugitive.
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- 8.0/109 votesLoading...
#12 - Got to Fall in Love with a Prison Guard
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 6/9/2014
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.
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#13 - Got to Be MacGuyver
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 7/28/2014
Harold Laird and two of his friends murder Laird's stepfather Red and Red's girlfriend. They plan to go to Pennsylvania, but are arrested when police find them driving a stolen truck.
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#14 - Got a Handsome Face
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 5/20/2016
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.
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- 7.9/1010 votesLoading...
#15 - Got to Run with My Brother
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 5/9/2012
Mark and Maverick Maher are teenage punks who form their own militia -- a band of youths who rob houses and break into cars. After sending a threatening audio tape to police, they go on the run, living in the Florida swamps and eventually leading police on a lengthy chase through an upscale neighborhood.
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#16 - Got to Escape With One Leg
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 7/15/2013
Walter Rhodes and 2 other suspects were involved with the murder of 2 cops. Rhodes agrees to testify against the others for a lesser sentence and is released in 18 years. Shortly after, he violates his parole - but refuses to ever go back to prison.
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#17 - Got to Sing Karaoke
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/2/2010
Joe Crouch of Memphis, Tennessee is a compulsive gambler whose addiction has led him to write bad checks for over $80,000. When he discovers that he is facing criminal charges, he confesses his crimes to his wife.
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- 7.8/1017 votesLoading...
#18 - Got Caught By a Cougar
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2010
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.
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#19 - Got to Impersonate a Guard
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/2011
While working at an Albertsons in Dallas, Dennis Wayne Hope formulates a plan to rob his employer. By posing as an employee of an armored truck company, Hope collects cash deposits from several Albertsons in the area.
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#20 - Got to Build a Bridge to Freedom
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/2012
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.
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#21 - Got to Build a Meth Lab
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 5/2/2012
Jerry Wright builds a booming meth business in the Tennessee hills until his makeshift lab blows up. During a fight over money, Wright kills a man and runs to his sister’s in Ohio but gets caught. He escapes from prison but can't handle the stress of being a fugitive. He is soon captured and sent back to jail.
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#22 - Got a Dead Man's ID
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2010
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.
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#23 - Got To Ride The Rails
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2011
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.
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- 7.7/108 votesLoading...
#24 - Got to Pretend to Be a Cop
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 5/13/2016
Peter Gibbs faces a long stretch in prison for a string of robberies but he refuses to go down without a fight.
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#25 - Got to Be Part of the Pittsburgh Six
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 7/8/2016
Andrew Thomas Heim of Pittsburgh is serving 4–10 years in prison for battery and assault. In prison, he recruits five other inmates to form a plan of escape.
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The Best Episodes of I (Almost) Got Away With It
Every episode of I (Almost) Got Away With It ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of I (Almost) Got Away With It!
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...
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Network:Investigation Discovery
Best Episodes Summary
"Got to Be Bonnie and Clyde" is the best rated episode of "I (Almost) Got Away With It". It scored 8.6/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/5/2013. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Got to Be the Green Baron".