When she was 9, she said, she saw her younger sister fall four stories from a fire escape, dying of her injuries in the hospital.
They then get jailed, escape, die, or go mad, but the real culmination of each story occurs in that instant of revelation, when they realise that, despite everything they have always been told, the state is malign.
Soon after the pesticides were released over the area on Sunday morning, huge numbers of honeybees started crawling out of their hives in a bid to escape, dying just outside the entrance.
Grady Lee Huffman, who was shot 17 times in 30 years of robberies, burglaries and prison escapes, died of cancer Tuesday.
Lt. Col. Jimmy Yule, who as a British Army officer at the Colditz prisoner of war camp in World War II operated a clandestine radio receiving coded intelligence messages and organized a P.O.W. musical group that helped orchestrate escapes, died Dec. 25 in Colchester, England.
All of his family members, except his sister who escaped, died in one of the concentration camps.
Riding around Detroit in a rented SUV, Rogers explains how narrowly he escaped dying in Iraq.
His mother got a foot infection during their escape and died in 1919, leaving him and his brother to fend for themselves until their father sent for them in 1921.
One of the last survivors of World War Two's most famous prison break, known as the Great Escape, has died aged 101.
James Garner, the US star of hit TV series The Rockford Files and Maverick and films including The Great Escape, has died aged 86.
