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Worlds Greatest Escape Artist Reveals His Secrets| Bryan Bruton
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What led to Bryan's arrest?
They arrest me. She's an officer. She said, I gotta get you out of here. What we started looking up was countries that don't extradite. Guatemala being the closest one by land.
guatemala bound one day when i went to pick my kid up from school i was going to meet her mother at a restaurant and uh for lunch and when we were pulling in she was walking out of the out of the restaurant with another girl behind her the girl that i've been flirting with never did anything nothing outside of just words flirting with her but when they're coming out the door i'm like oh fuck they both look pissed off like this is gonna be a problem
But I think I was like 22, 23 at the time. Just fooling myself. Not really being like a man. Like, okay, you're right. You caught me. Admit the shit. I was like, she's totally lying. Because what happened was the girl was telling my wife that I've been talking shit to her, flirting with her. And so when they come out and approach me with it, I'm like, no, no, no. She's totally lying.
She was trying to buy some white for me. I wouldn't sell her anything. So now she's trying to start a problem. So we're arguing. But we're getting loud, right? But it's like my motorcycle's here. I'm on this side. She's on that side. And we're arguing. And then the people that own the restaurant, they come outside and they're like, get out of here, dude.
You can't be out here arguing at the front door. All right. All right, cool. I'm out of here. So I get on my motorcycle and leave. I live like two, three minutes from that restaurant. And when I get home, her brothers start calling me. She had two or three brothers, I think. And they're telling me, oh, you slapped our sister, scratched her car, and ran her in a ditch.
who but none of that happened none of that happened i mean this is 25 years ago right if it happened that fucking fucking i slapped her right right if i scratched her car then you know i'll tell you whatever that's 25 years ago i didn't touch a girl i've never touched a female i didn't slap her car uh scratch her car or run her in a ditch but that's what she told them right and so they're like our sister called us crying said all this stuff she's trying to get your ass beat yeah but they're talking about other type of shit like they're gonna cut your head off like they're these dudes are wild
Right.
Her whole family's on dope. They're all strung out and they're known for being maniacs. And so when I'm trying to tell these guys, look, that's not what happened.
you know they're just they're threatening me right yeah now they're talking about coming to my house and so uh we just keep going back and forth on the phone not really making any they're not hearing what i say at all yeah a couple hours goes by they show up at my house the brothers her uncle they're all out front and when i go outside i'm like oh this is a problem
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Chapter 2: How did Bryan deal with threats from the family?
So I go outside and use the phone. She stayed outside. Just let me go in her place, right? I call my buddy, the same guy that had my ex-wife come and meet me. I call him. I'm like, dude, this is where I'm at. Come and fucking get me. He's like, all right, I'm on the way. This dude, like, it didn't matter what he's doing. He could be in the bed with his girl. I'm like, bro, come and get me. Okay.
Bitch, get out of the way. I got to go. Like he was that fucking loyal. He ended up turning me in, by the way.
Oh, my God.
Up to that point, it was super boring. Right. Yeah. So I call Buddy. He comes. When I see him pull up, I run outside. He pops a trunk. I get in the trunk. We take off. And I get away. He goes back and gets a motorcycle out of the woods a couple hours later. The cops never found the motorcycle. And so, you know, now I'm like safe again for a couple of days. Right.
But I'm just like running out of places to go and running out of like, what am I going to do? But the biggest thing for me was you're not going to arrest me before my kid's birthday. Already accomplished that. Right. Now I'm just running to run. Right.
And you're doing all this because you're basically thinking it's first degree murder. Oh yeah. I'm probably going to get life. This guy definitely died. Who knows what the story is.
Who knows how this is going to turn out. I don't even know what happened. So how am I going to approve what happened?
Right.
Right. And so I ended up meeting somebody who told me this guy makes fake IDs. And so I tell the guy, all right, I need an ID. He's like, yeah, no problem. I get him a picture. He gives me an ID made a couple of days later after I get the ID from the guy, I'm at this little small, another one of those roadside motel things. I'm in the motel. like in the evening time.
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Chapter 3: What happened during the motorcycle incident?
He's got fake IDs. I did get arrested on another, in between all this. You're right. Um, I was on my motorcycle. This is all right. So before they put the warrant out, this is a couple of months before I'm going from Carolina to Florida. And I was, you know, it's called lane splitting where you go between the cars. Yeah. So I'm doing like 110 on the stripe. Not that fast.
There's a hundred miles, 110, right? California where I live, you can do that shit all day. You're a lot of lanes, but over there, you're not, you know, Carolina. So I'm going between the cars and there's a cop in the median. Um, I'm like, damn it. So I jump over real quick. I don't know if he's seen me or not, but I'm like, if he comes after me, I'm doing 110 lane in between cars.
I'm going to jail probably. Right. Reckless driving. So here he comes. Like, God damn it. You got to catch me. So I hit the emergency lane, take off. But I ended up, so I'm headed south, South Carolina. Ended up at like mile marker five, which is five miles to Georgia. So I'm like running out of highway. Because if you try to cross into the state line, they're gonna throw a strip out, you know?
And there's already a bunch of them like coming up ahead of me, like trying to cut me off.
Right.
So I get off at exit five, I turn right. And when you go, I've never been down there before. When you go down that road, it like comes to a T stop, you know, that road ends. Now you can turn left or right.
Right.
I turn right. It's just a little two lane road. That two lane road goes all the way back to the County jail.
Okay.
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Chapter 4: How did Bryan end up on the run?
He just sentenced me 10 years to think about something.
Yeah.
At that point, remember it was from 2000. They didn't arrest me for three years. I sat in here for two and a half years. I'm like, you fuck. I'm sitting here already five and a half years thinking about it. I'm going to think about it for the rest of my life. I don't need to sit in prison for 10 more or 10 years to think about it. What do you, what does that even mean to think about it?
That's not why you sent us people. Not only that, like we know, like I took the plea deal. Right. I took the plea deal. But when a judge knows for sure you're innocent and says it in court, you're innocent, it's illegal to sentence you for that crime.
Okay.
But I took the plea deal. later when I got to prison, you know, you get around all the prison attorneys. Yeah. That's when I found out that it's actually illegal to send issue. But because I took that plea deal, I couldn't take it back.
There's no recourse. No, no. You don't have like a year to now. Cause you pled guilty. Okay. Yeah. Nevermind. Um, so 10 years, how much do you do? Like 85% in Florida is 85.
Yeah. Eight and a half years.
you've done two and a half. So you still got six, you still got six years to go. Yeah. Does it, does halfway house cut into the six years? No. Yes. Yeah, it should.
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Chapter 5: What was the outcome of Bryan's trial?
He would be pissed off. Right. Did he lose his job or anything? No. No. Okay. No. There's no taking that guy's job. Okay. He's fine. Huh?
He was fine then.
His grandson told me, he's like, you know what? Even after you escaped, he always talked highly of you. I was like, oh. That was good to know. All right. Yeah. So you're, you're on the main, sorry.
Yeah. Yeah. So where were we at? You're working, working for.
Yeah. I go to work for, I go to work on the maintenance career. Right.
Are you, you're all over the, you say you could go, you were going all over the place, but are you going outside of the prison? Yeah.
So the prison that I'm at is three prisons. You got reception, like the medical center. It's on a huge compound of property, right? So you got reception, you got the West unit, and then you got the work camp. So initially I was at the main unit. Then I went reception. I went from there to the West unit. That's where I got the job as the barber. Okay.
And then from there, once I got put on maintenance, I got moved to the work camp. And so it was when I was on the work camp that I was really going like, I would just get on the golf cart and go from camp to camp with him. We're always on prison grounds, but you're going from.
There's no fence all the way. Yeah, there's no fence. So you could go straight into the woods, right?
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Chapter 6: What lessons did Bryan learn from his experiences?
Oh, they feel it.
Okay.
Yeah. They all feel it and they're riding kites.
These fucking dicks.
You know they're going to, right? Right. So they're riding kites because my boss, the old man who I told you about, came to me. He said, I don't know what you're doing, but whatever you're doing with her, you better cut it out because they're fixing to do something to you. I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. Like I'm playing dumb with him. Yeah.
They, they knew they were, they were getting onto it. Um, but that day when I got drunk, right. I remember we were sitting on the bunk and like, I had like four or five pair of shoes that you're only supposed to have like one or two. Right. But, uh, I, all my shoes are lined up on the wall over there and my bunk, he's got one pair of Rydell's like, he's not financially doing, doing shit. Right.
Uh, and I remember like just randomly, I'm like, dude, if I get sick, I'm throwing up in the Rydell's. He's like, what? Those are mine. He's drunk, too. Like, me, him, and a couple other dudes are all drunk over here, right? And somehow, for some reason, I got sick. You puked in his shoes? I filled his whole shoe up. He's like, dude. It was so funny. Like, ridiculous, dumb, but funny.
You're just in here doing dumb things, you know? And I remember, like, when I threw up in his shoe, he hit me. Like, not hurt me, but he's like, dude, you threw up in my shoe. I'm like, don't worry about it. You can have my Nikes. So... When I started throwing up, I could not stop throwing up. I threw up for hours. Like I'm not really throwing up nothing. Now I'm dry heaving, I'm slobbering.
And it's just like so painful, like violent, sick. And so you get three uniforms per week.
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