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David McMillan’s remarkable tale of an incredible escape from Klong Prem Prison, a feat that no one thought possible.
“Two Weeks Before My Execution By Machine Gun, I Abandoned 20 Earlier Escape Plans — And Got Out The Traditional Way: Over The Wall.” David McMillan
“The Major Problem Was There Were 11 Walls. To my eyes that day, the fact that everyone was armed to the teeth told another truth: anything worth carrying long distances through hard and dangerous country is often worth more than other travellers’ lives. I hoped it would not be mine for I was twenty-three and too inquisitive to die soon.”
In 1996, he was held in one of Thailand’s infamous Bangkok Hilton prisons.
David had to escape. It was a matter of life and death.
Thank you to James Speed for his help on this story.
The Heiress Who Escaped
- It’s 1996, Lisa Marie Smith, the daughter of an insurance millionaire, is entering a bar, in Bangkok, Thailand. It is ironically named Paradise.
- She is at the end of a two-month backpacking trip through the picturesque Southeast Asian nation.
- But Lisa about to get more than she bargained for in the country known as the Land of Smiles.
- Learn how she is walking into her worst nightmare.
- In a putrid prison cell, she lives in crowded conditions with 120 other women inside the filthy, dangerous rat-infested cell.
- It was a long way from her exclusive, private high school in Australia.
- Find out the facts on Escaping Bangkok the Podcast.
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Lisa, just out of her teens, is our first story in the incredible group of tales of Thai prison nightmares.
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