107. The Independence Day Escape

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

True Crime, Comedy

4.3 • 922 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Seven prisoners escape a high-security facility in New Mexico. They’re armed – and extremely dangerous. Can the police catch them before anyone gets hurt?

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.0	Nothing beats the feeling of falling in love.
0:10.0	You feel like the luckiest person ever.
0:12.4	You said I'm looking for a wife?
0:14.1	Until you find out it was all a lie.
0:16.5	Something just wasn't right.
0:18.4	Join me, Vicky Patterson,
0:19.8	as we find out how one man's fake love may have ruined hundreds of
0:24.0	real lives.
0:25.0	He's got no morals.
0:26.6	The impact of his crimes, it's just so enormous.
0:30.3	Love-bombed wife hunter.
0:32.0	This man needs to be stopped.
0:33.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:36.7	We're travelling back to 1987 for today's case.
0:41.0	It's the evening of Saturday, the 4th of July,
0:43.7	where in New Mexico and Independence Day celebrations are in full swing.
0:49.0	Parties are happening everywhere,
0:50.9	where fireworks fill in the sky as people celebrate 204 years since the pesky British
0:56.3	overlords were ousted. But sadly, we're not at a party today. We're inside the New Mexico
1:03.0	Penitentiary, and the North Unit, to be exact. Here, the mood is quite different. No parties,
1:10.2	no fireworks.
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