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What infamous 1962 prison break involved inmates using papier-mâché dummy heads to fool guards?
Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers famously used papier-mâché dummy heads with real human hair to conceal their absence during the June 1962 escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
Which notorious drug lord twice escaped maximum-security prisons in Mexico, once reportedly in a laundry cart and another time through a mile-long tunnel?
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, made two high-profile escapes from Mexican prisons: in 2001, allegedly in a laundry cart, and in 2015, through an elaborate tunnel dug under his cell.
The 1944 "Great Escape" during World War II involved Allied prisoners of war tunneling out of which German camp?
The famous "Great Escape" of March 1944 saw 76 Allied airmen escape from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war camp, through a series of meticulously dug tunnels.
In the classic film about a wrongfully convicted man's prison escape, what household item was famously used to conceal a tunnel in his cell?
In "The Shawshank Redemption," Andy Dufresne spends nearly two decades digging a tunnel, which he conceals behind large posters of pin-up women in his cell.
What infamous American gangster escaped from an Indiana jail in 1934 using a fake weapon reportedly carved from wood?
John Dillinger, a notorious bank robber, famously escaped from the Crown Point Jail in Indiana in 1934 by using a fake gun he reportedly carved from a wooden washboard.
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