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- After stealing millions of dollars from a Florida insurance company, 45-year old Sholam Weiss is sentenced to a staggering 845 years in prison. With a taste for the high life very much at odds with the American penal system, Weiss flees the country with US $30-million and his 27-year old girlfriend and creates a new life in Brazil under the alias "Charles Dick." Upon his escape, FBI Agent Joe Judge, the man who had relentlessly pursued Weiss for three years prior to his conviction, makes it his mission to catch the thief. The 1,000-day international pursuit finally ends in a dramatic confrontation at the Vienna International Airport.
- The true story yof credit-card fraudster Elliot Castro - a young Scotsman who eluded police for four years as he flew around the world, first class, with stolen credit card IDs. Smooth-talking and incredibly confident, Castro made life a pain for police everywhere.
- Daring and dangerous, Attila Ambrus won the hearts of the Hungarian people when he became the country's most famous bank-robbing, hockey-playing heartthrob. In 1993, Ambrus robbed his first bank in Hungary and by the time he was first arrested in 1999, he had robbed 29 banks and stolen nearly US $1-million - remarkably, robbing one state bank four times!
- Harris County, Texas, is home to America's largest prison system, housing more than 700,000 people - five per cent of the Texan population. In this episode, follow career criminal Steven Jay Russell as he escapes from prison - for the third time - by disguising himself as a doctor. With a long legacy of eluding and embarrassing Texas law enforcement, Russell becomes the personal obsession of Terry Cobbs, an agent with the Gulf Coast Task Force that specializes in tracking fugitives. Cobbs tracks Russell to a motel in Biloxi, Mississippi - but not before"King Con" bluffs his way into the role of CFO for NutraSweet. Sentenced to 45 years in prison, Russell is determined to remain a free man and stages his best break yet when he fakes his own death. A few days after his alleged death, Cobbs discovers that Russell has beaten the system - again - and nothing will get in his way of a final, dramatic showdown.