Hunting Down Mr. Wright
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The half-century long pursuit of George Wright, a convicted murderer who escaped prison and hijacked a plane, led authorities around the world seeking his capture. “48 Hours" Correspondent Susan Spencer reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 6/29/2013. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:10.0 | House has definitely seen better days. |
| 0:13.0 | This is the window I stood in when I waved goodbye to my dad the last time. |
| 0:19.0 | Growing up, my mother never talked about the fear she felt |
| 0:21.6 | while trying to raise her family. |
| 0:23.6 | She remained strong for us. |
| 0:25.6 | I had this little two-wheeler. |
| 0:27.6 | I ended up down there, and I almost in the road, |
| 0:31.6 | and I said, Daddy, where were you? |
| 0:33.6 | And he said, you did it. |
| 0:35.6 | My grandfather, Walter Patterson, was murdered. One of the people who is responsible for doing it is still not paying for what he has done. For 17 years, I worked on a case involving a fugitive named George Wright. |
| 0:59.0 | My father was brutally beaten and shot in a robbery of his gas station. |
| 1:06.0 | It haunts me to this day. |
| 1:09.0 | It all started right there in 1962 |
| 1:12.6 | when Mr. Walter Patterson was closing up his gas station. |
| 1:21.6 | Mr. Patterson was a war hero. |
| 1:23.6 | Combat veteran World War II received the Bronze Star. The ironic thing was that he came through the war only to have this happen to him. |
| 1:33.3 | The nutty of the incident, two young men came right through that door with loaded weapons. |
| 1:40.3 | George Wright and his partner said this is a robbery, get him up. |
| 1:45.0 | Walter Patterson put up a heck of a fight. |
| 1:49.0 | He was beaten so severely that he was unrecognizable. |
| 1:55.0 | George Wright was caught two days later. |
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