11/12/2025
🚨 He Escaped Prison… Hijacked a Plane… And Vanished for 40 YEARS!
A 19-year-old in New Jersey makes a terrible decision — a robbery that ends in a man’s death.
The court hands him 30 years.
George Edward Wright walks into prison with his entire youth already gone… but he refuses to spend it behind bars.
Eight years later, in 1970, guards walk past his cell and see the unthinkable:
It’s empty.
No break-in.
No noise.
No clues.
Just silence where a prisoner once slept.
America starts searching.
Days turn into months… nothing.
Wright is gone.
Then, out of nowhere, the world hears his name again.
September 1972.
A Delta DC-8 takes off with 86 passengers.
Mid-air, five members of the Black Liberation Army take over the plane.
Wright is one of them.
Panic spreads.
Passengers freeze.
They demand $1 million — but with a crazy twist:
The FBI agent delivering the ransom must show up wearing only a swimsuit so he can’t hide a gun.
The FBI obeys.
With the money collected, the hijackers fly the plane straight to Algeria.
And once again, George Wright slips through America’s fingers.
After that day, he becomes a ghost.
New countries.
New identities.
New life.
While his partners are eventually caught, Wright drifts through Europe unnoticed until he settles quietly in Portugal.
He marries.
Raises children.
Lives in a peaceful seaside town where neighbors only know him as the calm man who cares for his garden.
No drama.
No crime.
No spotlight.
Just a fugitive living a normal life — in plain sight — for four decades.
In 2011, everything changes.
The FBI locates him.
They make the arrest.
The U.S. demands extradition.
Portugal reviews his case, his citizenship, his decades of peaceful living… and makes a bold decision:
They refuse.
No extradition.
No return to prison.
No reopening the past.
After 40 years of running, George Edward Wright simply walks free.
A man who outran the law for four decades… and somehow, the law eventually stopped running after him.
