This is a story about a fugitive who's been on the run for more than 30 years.

A good American is a dead American.

And the special agent who spent decades trying to bring him to justice.

If he had hung himself, I wouldn't have lost no wink asleep.

It's about a man whose crimes appear to have simply drifted away.

Or have they? I'm Chloe Hadgemotho. From Tortoise, this is The Gas Man.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Hello my lovely betrixers it's me Kate Lister I'm here you're here the producers

are here the guest is, but before we can go any further,

I have to tell you that this is an adult podcast broken by adults to other adults about

adult things in an adult way, covering a range of adult subjects and you should be an adult too.

I do sometimes wonder if people just wander into this podcast, children or people have a sensitive

disposition and then they hear me giving the fair dues warning and decide to just switch off this isn't for them.

I don't know if that's ever happened but we will continue just in case it ever does.

On with the show. Hangovers are pretty awful at the best of time.

Nobody's ever had an enjoyable hangover, that is just a fact.

And everybody has got their own version of a hangover cure,

whether it's curling up in a bowl in a darkened room

and just praying for the whole thing to be over,

or eating Scotch eggs and drinking red bull. But spare a thought for those who were on the

piss with the Roman Emperor Ella Gabylis, who would let his guests sleep off their

hangover in a room but then as a joke would release wild animals into the room like a lion.

Waking up in strange surroundings is a harrowing enough hangover experience but waking up with a lion eating

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