tunnel escape

Episode 836 of Morbid covers legendary prison breaks, centered on Colonel Thomas E. Rose's tunnel escape from Libby Prison in 1864.

Flugtkongen is a 2016 DRTV documentary about Carl August Lorentzen, who dug an 18-metre tunnel out of Horsens State Prison on 24 December 1949.

Christina Block, daughter of German billionaire Claus-Peter Block, was abducted from her property in Hamburg-Sasel on 14 December 2024 in a highly organised operation that shocked Germany. The case triggered a massive investigation spanning multiple countries, with arrests made in Poland and leads pursued in Denmark. It became one of the most high-profile criminal cases in northern Germany in recent memory.

Pascal Payet, a French criminal convicted of murder during a 1997 security van robbery, made international headlines by engineering three separate helicopter escapes from prison between 2001 and 2007. Known by the alias 'Kalashnikov Pat,' Payet's audacious aerial breakouts—each lasting mere minutes—exposed vulnerabilities in European prison security and made him one of the continent's most wanted fugitives.