The Murderer Who Escaped Using a Hot Air Balloon

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00:00In 1988, a convicted murderer vanished from a high-security prison.

00:05No tunnels, no guards bribed. He simply floated away.

00:09For months, he studied the winds, the guards, and the night sky.

00:13Then, on a stormy evening, while thunder shook the walls,

00:16he made his move, hidden inside the prison workshop.

00:20He built something unthinkable.

00:22A hot-air balloon, made from stolen bedsheets,

00:25scrap fabric, and smuggled propane tanks.

00:27When the wind was right, he lit the flame.

00:30The balloon rose, slow at first, then higher and higher,

00:34past the searchlights, past the walls.

00:36Guards shouted, bullets flew, but he kept rising into the storm.

00:40By dawn, the prison was in chaos.

00:43He was gone. Some say he died in the mountains.

00:46Others whisper, he made it across the border,

00:49the man who escaped the law, and vanished into the sky.