Standoff

By Imperative EntertainmentSociety & Culture Documentary True Crime History

Standoff episodes

March 17, 2022 Fred the Folk Hero | Chapter 7
As Fred Carrasco engages in a life-or-death chess match with the Texas prison system, his escape attempt is swept up with an important civil rights movement. Meanwhile, Carrasco's wife, Rosa, disappears.

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51 min
March 16, 2022 The Blitz | Chapter 6
Hostage taker Fred Carrasco turns up the public pressure on prison officials to release him and his accomplices from the Walls Unit. A desperate hostage takes matters into his own hands.

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54 min
March 15, 2022 "I Just Saw a Man Killed!" | Chapter 5
Guards armed with guns and explosives get ready to storm the library. Their goal? Recapture the outlaw Fred Carrasco and free his civilian hostages.

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55 min
March 14, 2022 Both Sides Dig In | Chapter 4
Schoolteacher Jack Branch and other hostages become human shields as Fred Carrasco ups the stakes in his demand to be released from prison.

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45 min
March 13, 2022 The Mastermind | Chapter 3
Stuck behind bars, Fred Carrasco recuperates from numerous bullet wounds and hatches a brazen and daring plot to escape justice ... with a little help from his friends.

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52 min
March 12, 2022 "I Came to Kill One Guy" | Chapter 2
Before his infamous prison siege, Fred Carrasco rose from the streets of San Antonio to the heights of power as an international druglord, only to crash back down to earth in a wild shoot-out with the cops.

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54 min
March 11, 2022 Let the Siege Begin | Chapter 1
Fred Carrasco seizes control of the prison library at the Texas State Penitentiary, taking librarians and teachers hostage.

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48 min
March 01, 2022 Trailer: Standoff
A new series on the 1974 Huntsville, TX prison siege, one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history that played out in dramatic fashion over 11 days – all in front of a terrified national audience. 100 hours of newly uncovered audio containing the actual hostage negotiations and the deadly shoot-out tell the story like never before.

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5 min

About Standoff

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Standoff follows Fred Gómez Carrasco, a drug cartel kingpin and orchestrator of the 1974 Huntsville, Texas, prison siege. The siege was one of the most infamous hostage crises in American history and played out in dramatic fashion over eleven days, all in front of a terrified national audience. One hundred hours of audio containing the actual hostage negotiations and the deadly shoot-out tell the story like never before.