In 1992, Darko Desic was serving time in Grafton Jail, New South Wales, for growing and selling weed.
Darko was a model prisoner who worked on the prison’s farm. He was well-liked by other prisoners and even managed to win over the guards.
But he wasn’t planning to stay.
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For months he quietly prepared his escape – stashing away tools, memorising the guards’ routines, and planning every detail of his breakout.
He organised a getaway driver to pick him up from a nearby street after he got past the walls.
And to avoid raising suspicion – he bleached his prison greens to look like a worker’s uniform, and bought new sneakers with the money he’d saved up in prison.
Darko managed to score a pair of bolt cutters by breaking into the prison’s workshop, where the tools were stored.
Once he made his great escape – he wouldn’t be seen for nearly three decades – until the day he turned himself in.
Why would Darko do such a thing? Well, hear from the man himself as he tells his story on Secrets We Keep: Jailbreak, listen wherever you get your podcasts.