John Killick is a career criminal with a knack for escaping. He'd escaped custody multiple times, but it was his 1999 escape from Sydney's Silverwater Jail, after his lover had hijacked a helicopter, the cemented his place in history. In 2014, Killick gave his first and only interview to Mike Willesee. This story originally aired in 2014.

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