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.

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.

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.

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.

A con artist keeps reinventing himself.

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.

A freak accident threatens to send a criminal-turned-car salesman back to jail.

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Gibbs faces a long stretch in prison for a string of robberies but he refuses to go down without a fight.

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.