September 25, 2016 Anthony does an impromptu escape from the cell block at the Sheboygan County Courthouse in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in under 1 minute.
August 13, 2016 In his lowest handcuff jump ever; Anthony was handcuffed by the Illinois State Police and jumped from an aircraft at 8500 feet. He successfully escaped in freefall and deployed his parachute a mere 15 seconds before impacting the ground.
April 28, 2016 Anthony does an impromptu escape from the cell block at Plymouth City Hall in Plymouth, Wisconsin in under 2 minutes.
August 6, 2013 Anthony plummets out of an airplane at 14,500 feet, handcuffed and chained in a box locked with a "keyless" lock to promote his new book, Escape or Die: An Escape Artist Unlocks the Secret to Cheating Death (Genesis Publishing Group).
The aerial escape, featured live on Fox News Channel, garnered worldwide attention--including interviews on GMA and the BBC, and coverage on news sources such as ABC, CBS, USA Today, Washington Post, Huffington Post, and TIME--and was the #1 most downloaded AP story of the day. >>>link>>>
July 1, 2013 Anthony's new book "Escape or Die an Escape Artist unlocks the secret to cheating death" is published by Genesis Publishing. >>>link>>>
December 16, 2011 Anthony does an impromptu escape from jail cell "D2" at the county courthouse in Wautoma, Wisconsin following a successful "Dare" Anti-Drug presentation for their local Sheriff's Department.
September 13, 2011 Anthony is featured in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not 2012 Annual.
August 22, 2011 Anthony returns to the Waushara County Jail 25 years to the day to duplicate his escape of 1986. He is strapped to a ladder in a strait jacket and locked behind 4 steel doors. He escapes in 2 minutes and 50 seconds, having again defeated the jail that held Edward Gein, America's Most Bizarre Murderer. >>>link>>>
July 12, 2011 Anthony films the first point of view video of an aerial handcuff escape while plummeting to the earth from 13,500 feet. >>>Video>>>
November 2, 2010 Anthony is handcuffed and locked in a steel safe by Missouri locksmith Ives Bradley. He shows them in the Show Me State by escaping in 3 minutes and 14 seconds.
July 13, 2010 Anthony is heavily manacled before leaping from an airplane at 13,500 feet. He escapes in freefall and deploys his parachute successfully in under 60 seconds. >>Video>>
June 13, 2009 Anthony is searched and handcuffed in a chain configuration of 12 handcuffs that includes a 20lb. ball and chain. He is then locked in a cell at the Porter County Jail. He appears free in 8 minutes and 13 seconds having defeated the handcuffs and three locked jail doors to reach freedom.
October 4, 2008 Anthony is searched and bound in an unaltered Posey strait jacket. All straps of the restraint were utilized including the side and belly loops. He was then locked in Cell No. 3 of the Vernon County Jail. He escaped in 3 Minutes, 10 seconds.
March 4, 2006 Anthony is searched and laced inside a full length punishment suit. He is then dragged into a cell at the Ozaukee County Jail and locked inside. He escapes in 4 minutes, 7 seconds. >>>link>>>
June 21, 2000 The Snake River Canyon, untested since
Evel Knievel's attempt to tame it in 1974 is the location for Anthony's
latest aerial "Dance with Death". Wearing handcuffs
supplied by the Jerome County Commissioner's office, Anthony leaps
from an airplane at 11,000 feet over the perilous gorge. He escapes
in freefall, deploying his parachute, and landing on the North rim having
conquered the canyon. >>>Video>>>
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January 20, 1996 Anthony is featured in his
first network television special. ABC airs "Secrets of the
World's Greatest Escape Artist," which telecast the escapists
successful attempts to duplicate three of his most daring feats. the
show concluded with Anthony's dramatic escape from beneath 2000 pounds of
sand at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
February 26, 1990 Anthony's hands are chained
and he is locked within a metal cage with locks removed on the spot from
their factory packaging. The cage was then lowered through a hole
chainsawed in the ice of a water-filled quarry. He escapes his
watery tomb in 1 minute 45 seconds becoming the first person in the world
to perform an escape under the ice.>>>link>>> >>Video>>
February 14, 1990 Escapes from the Racine City
Jail despite three pairs of handcuffs and three jail doors in seven
minutes. A jailer, as is required by law, remained in the locked
cellblock and confirms Anthony received no outside aid in his escape. >>>link>>>
August 28, 1988 Anthony is searched, handcuffed
with two pairs of handcuffs, each covered in a black box and padlocked
with locks sealed in their original packages (a black box is a device
designed to cover and prevent tampering with the handcuff keyholes).
He was then led to a freight box in which he was secured and chained to the
interior, equipped with only a parachute. The box, having been
designed with a jail cell lock, was itself locked and loaded aboard a
large cargo plane. Shoved out of the cargo bay at 13,500 feet and
traveling at a terminal velocity of 130 miles per hour, Anthony escaped at
approximately 6,500 feet. He parachuted safely to the ground and into the
record books, having completed the Greatest Escape of All Time >>>link>>>>>>Video>>>
August 22, 1986 Earns the title of "King of Escapists" in "Ripley's Believe It or Not" after
releasing himself from six sets of handcuffs and penetrating six prison
doors at the Waushara County Jail in 4 minutes, 45 seconds. This is
the same jail that housed Edward Gein "America's Most Bizarre
Murderer". The Gein case provided the basis for Alfred
Hitchcock's movie "Psycho" and the films "Deranged"
and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". >>>link>>>
September 24, 1984 Escapes after being bound in
20 pounds of chains secured with six padlocks, ranging from Master to Yale
to Slaymaker and nailed inside a coffin. The coffin was tied twice
at both ends with heavy rope, weighted at four points with burlap bags
containing 500 pounds of rocks, and submerged in over six feet of water in
the Sheboygan River, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
June 16, 1980 Escapes from police belly chain,
straightjacket, and maximum-security jail cell while appearing on
nationally syndicated television program "P.M. Magazine".
December 1978 Becomes the youngest person in
the world to escape from a regulation police straightjacket.
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