A Genius man gained the public’s attention because of his multiple prison escapes,
he was nicknamed as The King Con Artist. On the contrary of the previous prison
escapees episodes from our channel, the man we are going to talk about in today’s video,
had never commited a murder, his ways were so different, he was specialized in defrauding and
deceiving as well as escaping the prison, without further ado, let’s start our exciting episode.
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Steven Jay Russell, a fraude man known as the King Con artist, and famous because of
his multiple successful escapes from several prisons, he was born on September 14, 1957
in North Carolina Elizabeth city. Steven’s biological parents were in an
illegitimate relationship, as a result, they didn’t want to raise a child out of wedlock,
so that the child was adopted by a family who ran a large food produce company,
but it wasn’t until he was 9 years old when he discovered that he was adopted,
later after a period of time, he figured out that his real parents remarried again and had a few
children, however they didn’t think about taking their first kid back or even get in touch with
him. This trauma pushed the poor kid to behave in such an extreme way from getting into problems
with others and engaging in various troubles as a minor. He would later state “ I felt rejected… I had
a little bit of a problem when I found out.” Steven’s foster parents attempted to stop his
extreme behaviours such as fighting and engaging in troubles, but it never worked out, so they
decided to send him to boy’s home where he would later state that he experienced homosexuality,
but this didn’t stop him from falling in love with a woman whom he would later marry, the couple had
a baby girl named Stephanie when steven was working as a volunteer deputy police officer.
But unfortunately, the marriage didn’t get along, the couple decided to separate.
In 1985, Steven would face another trauma when his foster father passed away,
this triggered him so deeply, thinking about his real parents who deserted him
and also thinking about his miserable life, after overcoming this trauma,
Steven would get a job in a food company to earn an honest living, but unfortunately it didn’t last
long, because he was fired and he would later state “when I lost my job, that really screwed
with my head. I lost control of my life”. This was the beginning of the anger toward society
and the system which helped in creating one of the most genius king con artists.
After getting fired, Steven decided to use his intelligence in defrauding, he, at the first time,
started selling fake rolex watches and later frauded an insurance company out of $45,000
by pretending to have hurt himself, he kept defrauding and deceiving until he
was arrested in 1992 and was convicted for submitting a false passport application
and insurance fraud, as a result, he was sentenced to 10 year in Harris County Prison.
During his imprisonment, Steven's thoughts were about James Kemple
who he had been dating at that time and was tested positive for HIV,
this was the motive which pushed Steven to think about his first escape. He used to
observe the guards' pattern routine, eventually he was able to conclude the planning escape,
he managed to get a pair of sweatpants and a T-shirt from a storage room in the prison,
he also managed to get a radio, the one as the guards have. After one month in the prison,
Steven’s right time to escape came when the guards were on their usual smoke break,
he put on the civilian clothes he had found and walked right to the door and tapped on
the window of the guard to open the door, then he walked out of the prison as a free man.
You might be thinking about how the door guard allowed him to get out. Well the
prison was sometimes visited by undercover police officers who wore civilian clothes,
the thing that facilitated Steven's escape. After escaping the prison, Steven headed to Mexico
with James Kemple, but he didn’t make it too long, because he had to go back to the United States
as Kemple got really sick and had to get proper treatment, unfortunately,
2 years later he was arrested after attempting to commit insurance fraud and was convicted for
prison escape and fraud. During his first week of imprisonment, James Kemple passed away.
This time Steven decided not to escape, so that after a period of time he was paroled and got
a stable job in a grocery store, but Steven felt like he deserved a better life which means a big
fraudulent deal. The right golden opportunity came when he saw an announcement about a job offer,
Steven with no hesitation applied for the job as the CFO of a massive medical management
company called NAMM. As a genius, Steven falsified his qualification and documents
and read some books about financial management in order to acquire some knowledge about the job.
He was hired and embezzled around $ 800,000 despite he had no experience in such a job.
You might be thinking about why Steven frauded the company which provided him with a high salary?
Well, according to him, he revenged for Kemple because of the way he had been treated by similar
companies when he sought treatment for HIV. After stealing the money within 5 months, Steven
was arrested and his bail was set at $ 900.000, but geniusly he managed to call Harris county
clerk from the prison and impersonated the judge's voice, then he was able to convince the clerk in
lowering the bail to $45.000. The next day Steven paid his bail and walked out as a free man.
A few days later, Harris county’s authorities figured out Steven’s trick,
they tracked his phone calls when he called his friend asking for money, and then he was arrested
in a hotel room in west palm beach, florida. Steven was sentenced to 45 years in prison
for the NAMM fraud and was sent to the Maximum Security Estelle Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
As usual, Steven kept observing everything inside the prison
as well as the routine, at one point he came up with idea of his next escape,
he noticed that the prisoners uniform are the same as the doctor’s who regularly visit the prison,
except the color, so that he managed to collect green highlighter markers and a
spare prison uniform, then he dye it in green so as to look like the doctor’s scrubs.
On the 13th of December 1996, Steven, once again, approached the door and waved to the guard
who was on the phone to open the door, the guard ended up opening and letting him out
without any suspicions, then he walked out of the prison as a free man again.
While Helicopters and search teams were looking for him, Steven managed to get a ride out of the
town into Houston, but after a period of time he was tracked down and was arrested in Mississippi
by the US Marshal and was sent back to a maximum security prison in texas.
At that time Steven came up with a mind blowing escape idea, he informed the authorities that he
was tested positive for HIV and faked a medical record by using a typewriter inside the prison,
during his imprisonment the guards noticed that he was changed,
his body was showing the symptoms of the late stages of dying and death seemed close,
so that he was granted to move to a nursing prison home, while in there, the prison officers received
a call from a physician who said that Steven had been selected for an experimental treatment,
so he was paroled. After a period of time the prison received a death certificate
stating that Steven Russell had died. Steven would later state about this escape “That�
was the most difficult… I had to completely discipline myself… You do whatever you have
to do. I get my ideas from studying. I watch, I look for weaknesses. You look the whole way
around something and you never let yourself get blocked … I don’t think I’m cleverer than the police,
but I managed it because they think anyone who is a criminal is stupid and they’re complacent.
I think anyone can escape from anywhere.” Unfortunately, Steven made a big mistake
when he attempted to get a $75.000 loan from NationsBank in Dallas while the bank became
suspicious about him, the bank called the police but Steven as usual feigned a heart attack and was
transported to a hospital where he was placed on security watch, but as he did before, he used his
intelligence and skills and impersonated an FBI agent and called the hospital using his cell phone
to tell them he could be released. On April the 5th, 1998, Steven was
tracked down in Florida and was arrested. For the embarrassment he had caused to the
authorities, the judge sentenced him to 144 years in prison, 45 years for his various scams and 99
years for his escapes. He is now incarcerated in TDCJ polunsky unit in texas which is one of
the most secure prisons in the world where he spent 23 hours locked up in his own small cell,
he was only allowed to leave his cell for one hour a day to shower or for a little exercise.
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Drug traffickers are known for their notoriety because of their business,
which is full of risks and danger. Therefore, in this video we choose to talk about one of the most
famous drug lords in the world " Joaquin Guzman El Chapo " the former leader of Sinaloa Cartel. This
notorious person is well known for his intelligent smuggling techniques as well as the escapes from
the most secure prisons in the world, which made the United States former president Donald Trump
Tweeting about his escape. Pena Nieto, the former president of Mexico also made a statement about
El Chapo's escape. This episode will provide you with more information about El Chapo's life.
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the most notorious Drug lord as well as the most famous escapee who escaped the prison multiple
times using different methods such as, digging tunnels, this man called, " Joaquin Guzman Loera",
commonly known as El Chapo; the most powerful drug trafficker because of his intelligent smuggling
techniques, furthermore, a former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, During his long trial,
the judge eventually sentenced him to life imprisonment without parole, and now he is
incarcerated in one of the most secure prisons in the world. Without further ado, his episode
will provide you with more information about El Chapo's life.