document: Man escapes prison TWICE after his wife sends faxes ordering his release To break out of a modern prison is one thing , but to do it twice is quite something . That 's exactly what 57-year-old Jose Carlos Serna did , and each time he escaped from custody by the same method . His wife sent a fax to court officials , ordering that they release him , and they did what she commanded each time . In December he was in a cell at Arganda del Rey courthouse awaiting trial when officers received a fax purportedly from a regional court . It was followed by a phone call from someone claiming to be a court official , corroborating the release order . Officers did try to verify the order , but their calls went unanswered . When they received a second call , confirming Serena 's release , he was freed and put into a waiting taxi . Both of the calls were from his wife , Gema Maria Serna , who police tracked down to a house in the northern suburb of San Lorenzo del Escorial . Last time Serna used the trick on police he escaped from Valdermoro jail . He was in prison after he headed a gang that kidnapped a Spanish businessman in 2008 , holding him captive in the Portuguese beach resort of the Algarve . Since his last escape Serna had rented several houses , including the heavy fortified suburban home where he was arrested . Police said he had equipped the house with reinforced window protection and a secret entrance that could not be easily detected or approached . He had also hired a number of men to drive him around while pretending to be an Italian university professor . Officers broke into the house through a skylight to find him after he hid in a hollowed out sofa . Top 10 prison breaks John Dillinger - Lima , Ohio He hot two guards using smuggled guards in 1933 . In 1934 he escaped again , this time from Lake County Jail , he made a fake gun out of a bar of soap and used it to force his way out . He escaped in the Sheriff 's brand new car . Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin - Alcatraz Chipped the concrete in their cells around a vent shaft . They went down a chimney to the beach and built a raft to get across the sea . Billy Hayes - Sagmilicar , Turkey Hid in a concrete bin , swam to the harbour and stole a dinghy . From there he went to Greece and travelled across the world to the U.S. Giacomo Casanova - Leads prison Smuggled a metal spike into his cell and tunnelled through his ceiling before getting onto the roof and using ladders and ropes they made it to the ground floor . They made it to a gondola and into the network of rivers . Pascal Payet - Luynes Prison The murderer escaped in 2001 when a friend turned up with a hijacked helicopter . He returned two years later to pick up three other prisoners . They were all rearrested . In 2007 another helicopter picked Payet up and he 's never been seen again . John Gerard - Tower of London A Catholic in times when it was banned he was sentenced to death . Accomplices rowed a boat into the Tower 's moat and threw a rope to him . He climbed down and was smuggled out of England . Dieter Dengler - jungle prison camp With six others he escaped from hand and foot restraints to get a guard 's weapon . They killed the guards and escaped into the jungle . He is the only American soldier to escape from a prison camp in the Vietnam war . IRA members - Maze Prison In 1983 35 inmates escaped after taking control by force . They used smuggled handguns , wounded several guards , stole their uniforms , hijacked a car , took control of a guard post and hopped the fence . 109 union soldiers - Virginia 's Libby Prison Tunnelled through the basement to a nearby vacant piece of land . It took 17 days to reach a nearby tobacco shed . 48 were recaptured , two drowned in a nearby river and 59 made it to safety . Allied Soldiers - Stalag Luft III 76 allied soldiers got out through tunnels , called Tom , Dick and Harry , 30ft below the prison surfacing in a nearby forest . Their exploits were covered in the film , The Great Escape . All but three were recaptured .
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