524 // The Prison Break of Leroy Chasson w/ Daniel Zimmerman

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by new friend of the show, Mr. Daniel Zimmerman. On Sept. 6th, 1982, Leroy Chasson escaped from Walpole Prison in Massachusetts, one the most violent and notorious prisons in the country. With his wife masquerading as a nurse and brandishing a .45 automatic pistol, the two lovers fled to freedom. *This episode is brought to you by Mood, the online cannabis company that's revolutionizing how we deal with life's challenges – from sleepless nights to stress-filled days. You can get 20% off your first order at https://mood.com/ with promo code Crawlspace.* To learn more about Dan Zimmerman and to buy his books, go to: https://wildbluepress.com/chassons-run-daniel-zimmerman-true-crime/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B07HQFBV8J Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Private Investigations For the Missing, and join our virtual fundraiser on June 11th @ 8pmEST on the Missing YouTube Channel! ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please donate if you can: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://investigationsforthemissing.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://piftm.org/donate⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?
0:32.3	Sorry, Tim, I got to go, so I really can't get into this intro too in-, and I'll just cut right to the Chase and Chase and ask you how you're doing today.
0:43.3	Wow, so many puns just coming at us today.
0:45.7	Less than seven seconds.
0:49.1	I'm doing great.
0:50.5	Yeah, we had a really cool conversation with an author named Daniel Zimmerman. He's a local
0:57.1	guy to Massachusetts, and he wrote a book called Chasen's Run, the prison break that captivated
1:03.6	America and the love story that fueled it. And this is about Leroy Chason, who was a criminal,
1:10.1	who escaped prison with the help of his wife.
1:12.8	That's right. His wife, Kathleen, was instrumental in his escape. The method in which he
1:17.7	removed himself from the prison to a hospital, I don't want to give anything away, but
1:21.9	very bold way to get yourself out of prison so that you would be in need of medical attention.
1:27.9	But what's even more riveting about this is how everything went down at this hospital
1:32.8	before they escaped.
1:34.2	His wife coming in, dressed as a nurse, she has a gun.
1:37.0	They decide to not put the stomach chain, the belly chain on him so that he wasn't
1:41.9	fully restrained.
1:42.9	So that was one of the lucky breaks that
1:44.6	they had. One of the guards that was escorting them ends up being in the bathroom at the time.
1:49.7	So all of the pieces fell into place for this prison break. And it became more of a love story.
1:54.5	As we talk about here, how the two of them would basically do whatever it took, even to the
1:59.7	death, to protect each other.
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