The BEST episodes of I (Almost) Got Away With It season 2
Every episode of I (Almost) Got Away With It season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of I (Almost) Got Away With It season 2!
For these perpetrators, their stories may be different, but their motives are always the same: to stay out of prison. The people profiled in this series evaded justice for years, sometimes decades, by using their families, fake identification and even violence to avoid capture. Learn what pushed these individuals to their crimes, how they stayed one step ahead of the police and managed to evade the law -- at least for a while.
#1 - Got Shot Above a Deli
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2010
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.
#2 - Got 9th Place
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/2010
Randall Zandstra hid at his ex-wife's 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.
#3 - Got to Fetch a Hooker
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/28/2010
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.
#4 - Got A Dead Man's ID
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2010
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.
#5 - Got Caught By A Cougar
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2010
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.
#6 - Got a Family Coming After Me
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/2010
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.
#7 - Got a Death Certificate
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/4/2011
After witnessing a murder, Anthony Ragno goes on the run. Building a new life trafficking pot in the Haitian islands, a coke addiction and close calls with local governments drive Ragno back to the US with a fake name.
#8 - Got Raps
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/30/2010
"In the streets, a man's greed is his motivation," is the motto of Raymond Ross. After beating a teen into a coma, Ross pulls some fast dope deals to raise money and skip town. Hiding with his wanted cousin, Ross beats his way into the dealing scene, by pushing dope and mixing music to sell. Until one night when instead of giving, Ross gets a beating from another dealer, nearly landing him in the hospital. This is a wake up call for Ross, deciding to live it big at the club, and sure enough that night this drug dealing DJ, gets caught on the downbeat.
#9 - Got a Lot of Pot
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/2010
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.
#10 - Got to Roll the Dice
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/2010
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.
#11 - Got Caught Via Email
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/2010
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.
#12 - Got to Lock and Load
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/21/2010
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 his capture.
#13 - Got Plastic Surgery
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/22/2010
Courtenay Savage is an ex-cop with a loaded gun aimed at a friend's trailer. She has no idea she is caught on tape. After an arrest and posting bail, she goes on the run, leaving ties to the police department and the sex industry.