Vincenzo Curcio

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Vincenzo Curcio, a member of the Italian Mafia, is famous for escaping from his Texas prison cell by sawing through the bars of his cell with dental floss. Curcio was convicted of one murder and arranging seven others. The jail had been built in the 1970s and was designed to withstand outside attacks rather than breakouts, and as such the bars were made of iron low in carbon which were ductile but easy to saw through. Curcio tied bedsheets together and climbed down to the ground, scaling the outer fence to gain his freedom.