An 18-year-old girl and her family devise a plan to escape their existence at Jim Jones People's Temple.

Karen Kummerer leaves a note in a restaurant bathroom two days after being kidnapped by her former boyfriend.

Two friends fishing in the Sea of Cortez become stranded on a barren island for two weeks.

Cynthia Vigil is held and tortured by a man named Ray and his female accomplice.

When a former hockey Olympian is lost while snow boarding in the mountains, he will learn the meaning of endurance.

Tami Ashcraft is lost at sea for a month.

19-year-old Katya begins to plan her escape after being held by human traffickers for a year and being forced into prostitution at a strip club.

Thad Phillips, 13, is tortured over a two-day period by 17-year-old Joe Clark.

After divorcing her husband and beginning a new life outside Washington, D.C., Mildred Muhammad learns that her ex-husband is the D.C. Sniper and plans to kill her.

Josefina Rivera escape from a killer's cellar after being held captive for months.

Sean Bean details accounts of prison escapes from around the world.

Despite cameras and guards monitoring their every move, some prisoners are daring enough to test the system and execute a breakout. Told from the perspectives of both the escapees and the law enforcement teams tracking them, this series documents some of recent history's high-profile jailbreaks and the various methods officials use to outsmart the criminals, leading to their eventual recapture.