Per NBC New York, the two inmates escaped in 2015 after cutting out the backs of their cells and crawling away through a steam pipe. Twenty years later, at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Albany, New York, inmates David Sweat and Richard Matt developed a similar plan. Payet's story is just a few explosions short from being the opening scene of a Michael Bay movie. Not a single person thought it was important the let the prison guards, who were holding a convict who had a penchant for helicopter escapes, know that a helicopter in the area was stolen. What is surprising was the 'Seinfeld' -esque breakdown in communications prior to the escape. This was the second time that Payet escaped from prison using a helicopter. Within five minutes of the helicopter landing - less time than it takes for an Uber to arrive - Payet and his crew escaped into the night. Four masked men got out of the helicopter and used heavy equipment to cut their way through the two heavy metal doors between them and Payet. Suspiciously, the helicopter landed on the one part of the roof without a clear line of sight from the guard towers. One Saturday night in 2007, The New York Times reports the prison guards at Grasse were genuinely bewildered to see a helicopter landing on the roof of the maximum-security wing of their prison. Russell's story is so crazy that it had to be adapted into a film, 'I Love You, Philip Morris,' and only an actor as graceful and dignified as Jim Carrey could do his story justice. When Morris and Russell reunited in Florida - by law a story this crazy needs to have some connection to Florida - Russell was arrested, and his original sentence was extended to 144 years. Suspicious of the chain of events, police familiar with Russell thought everything was a little too convenient and began tracking Morris. While free, Russell sent a fake death certificate to a Texas court house, making him legally dead. Not once did it occur to anyone to actually run tests on Russell to determine if he really had AIDS. Russell then arranged transfer to a minimum-security prison hospital, followed by a transfer to hospice care, where once again he walked out the front door. Russell used a crash diet and a supply of laxatives to simulate the rapid weight loss associated with a full-blown case of AIDS. Russell's last successful escape from a maximum-security prison was as insane as it was brilliant. To walk out of jail, NPR reports that Russell made a guard's uniform for one successful escape, a doctor's uniform for another successful attempt, and once got a hold of a cell phone to convince a court clerk to lower his bail. Russell was not the type of person to let prison separate him from the man of his dreams and would go on to escape from prison on four different occasions to be with Morris.

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