Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
How I Escaped One of the World’s Toughest Prisons | David McMillan
28 Feb 2025
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Day one of the trial was smugglers' helicopter escape plan that was across the tabloids. I couldn't even kill myself in this jail. I actually wanted to escape just to kill myself. I had to develop a bit of a system to get over these internal walls. It had another moat on the inside of the prison that ran around. It was actually a sewer, and that had barbed wire in the middle, and I couldn't
figure a way of getting my ladder over to the other side. But when I got out of that cell, when I squeezed through the bar into the night and looked up at the sky that I hadn't seen for almost two and a half years, I'd never seen the night sky, never seen stars or anything, and then looked back into the cell, but the people I knew in there I thought suddenly it was all finished. It was all gone.
That didn't matter anymore. My survival out here was what mattered.
Hey, this is Matt Cox. I'm with David McMillan. He has escaped two prisons where he was on death row, and it's going to be a really interesting podcast. I hope you check it out. Thank you very much.
Hello, Matthew, and thank you for taking me even by wire to Tampa in Florida. And I think you've introduced me a little bit, but just to let people know, I'm now quite ancient, but from the age of You know, they say, up until you're 18, you are looking for trouble, but after 18, you find it. And I certainly did.
I traveled around smuggling, made just about every mistake that's possible, and found myself in Bangkok, Thailand, looking at a death sentence. In fact, only a couple of weeks away from a death sentence. got out of that one, which we'll talk about, I guess. And did I learn anything? I guess I must have. But did it stop me? No.
I was in Karachi in Pakistan several years later, looking at the death penalty there. Was that an escape? Not in the literal sense that it was in Thailand, but as we'll find, it was in some ways more difficult.
Okay, so... Um, just the accent and your appearance and the fact that I've read maybe, I think there's like 20 books that were written by, I can't believe I can't remember, you know, the, the, the character of Sean Dillon.
Not exactly. Oh, my gosh.
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