200: Escape from Yozgad w/ Margalit Fox - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Imprisoned in a Turkish war camp during WW1, two British officers pull off an unbelievable con against their captors involving a Ouija board, an angry ghost and feigned madness - leading to a truly astonishing escape.

My guest is bestselling author Margalit Fox, author of "Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History."

More information about Margalit Fox and her work can be found at: http://margalitfox.com/

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1:01.1	On this episode of the Most Notorious Podcast,
1:03.8	in audacious escape by two officers from a World War One Turkish prison camp
1:10.8	with the help of a Ouija board.
1:14.0	And many times, of course, Jones and Hill needed to slow down the proceedings.
1:20.3	They needed to buy time to plot the next phase of the con.
1:25.5	They needed to sustain their captors interest in a treasure hump
1:30.0	that wasn't going to happen right away.
1:31.6	This whole con played out over nearly a year.
1:34.8	And so one of Jones's most brilliant innovations was indeed
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