When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...

25-year-old Alonso Perez twisted his body and snapped the hinges off his handcuffs in order to escape a police interview room in Las Vegas Police video shows a Nevada homicide suspect handcuffed to a ...

Kristen Johnson is no "lovely" magician's assistant. She's Lady Houdini, an escape artist who has successfully performed thousands of public feats and has broken Harry Houdini's record for most water ...

COBB COUNTY, Ga — An inmate who escaped from a Cobb County hospital while being treated for gunshot wounds is back in custody. Marietta police arrested Ulysses Andre Roberson on Wednesday night in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Indianapolis inmate Orlando Mitchell allegedly used the chain of his handcuffs to fatally strangle deputy John Durm during an ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A jail inmate accused of killing a sheriff’s deputy who was transporting him in a van used the chain of his handcuffs to choke the officer during an escape attempt in Indianapolis, ...

Kristen Johnson, also known as Lady Houdini, goes far beyond the role women usually play in escape acts. "It was important for me to be a strong... Lady Houdini's Escape Act Breaks Through Not Just ...