On November 3, 2005, Charles Victor Thompson did something no death row inmate had accomplished in the 21st century: he walked out the front door of Harris County Jail using a fake badge and civilian clothes. For 78 hours, one of Texas's most dangerous killers rode freight trains, posed as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, and evaded a massive manhunt. But Thompson's story didn't start with his audacious escape. It began seven years earlier in a Tomball apartment, when he kicked down a door at 6am and opened fire on his ex-girlfriend and her new partner. One survived for a week on life support. The other died instantly. And 13-year-old Wade Hayslip, who had moved out five months earlier to escape the violence, got pulled out of science class to learn his mother was gone. This is the story of domestic violence, a death sentence, an impossible escape, and the execution that finally came 21 years later.

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