I Was a Bank Robber — Then I Escaped Prison | Kevin FitzPatrick
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Ian Bick
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 154 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There are some things you should always check, like the hygiene rating on your local takeaway, |
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| 0:30.0 | Ever since my arrest, I had a handcuff key that was part of my bootlace. |
| 0:34.0 | It's something that some police carry in case they ever get handcuffed. |
| 0:37.0 | I can't believe I'm sitting across from the real life Michael Schofield right now. I built the best bridge that I could |
| 0:42.3 | to get as high as I could on that fence. I got on the top of the fence. I didn't understand razor |
| 0:47.2 | wire until then. Can you tell us how you robbed the bank? Kevin Fitzpatrick isn't just a former |
| 0:52.0 | inmate. He's a three-time prison escapee and a convicted |
| 0:55.9 | bank robber who spent nearly two decades behind bars. In this episode, Kevin takes us inside the |
| 1:01.9 | mind of a man who broke out a prison three times, live life on the run, and pulled off |
| 1:07.1 | multiple bank robberies, and he shares exactly how it all went down. |
| 1:14.2 | Just spent through some crazy shit, you know, 11 years in solitary confinement, |
| 1:18.0 | 22 years in maximum security prisons in four states, 14 years of that just for escape charges. |
| 1:23.9 | I did more time for escaping repeatedly than I got for robbing bank tellers that I was in there for. |
| 2:20.8 | And, you know, there's countries around the world in Europe that escapes not even a crime. You don't even get prosecuted for it. It's considered a natural instinct and their fault that they didn't have in a place that was secure enough to hold you. So it's, you know, I went through some bad things. I mean, I went through the old school county jails when 16-year-olds could go into county jails in New York State. And now that that doesn't exist, you have to come at a serious. I was in there for joyriding in a car when I was 16. For four months, I sat in a county jail. And they don't do that anymore. But that's, you know, that was my experience with the system that was certainly not there to help you. It was, uh, it was there to punish. And nobody ever made an effort to get to the root of like, why are you doing these things? It was always, okay, what are we going to punish you with? And you come out of there, not any better. You come out of there criminally educated and you're just doing more stuff because your thinking's not been corrected and you don't have a purpose in your life to do good instead |
| 2:26.0 | of the trap of stupidity in the past. |
| 2:29.4 | Where'd you grow up, Kevin? |
| 2:31.2 | Syracuse, Syracuse, New York. |
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