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<p><b>AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE OLDEST UNSOLVED CASES ON THE FBI'S BOOKS, SPANNING SIX DECADES AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.</b><br><br>1967. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.<br><br>At his son's fifth birthday party, Joseph Maloney was alleged to have poisoned his wife. While awaiting trial in the psychiatric wing of a Rochester hospital, he escaped and vanished.<br><br>Years later, a charming stranger calling himself Michael O'Shea surfaced in Dublin.<br><br>Claiming roots in the west of Ireland, he married a local woman and sold his garage business to buy a grand country estate.<br><br>For years he lived as a country gentleman and worked at the pinnacle of Ireland's film industry - until a US extradition treaty exposed his true identity.<br><br>Arrested in 1985, Maloney escaped justice again when his trial collapsed on a technicality. He fled Ireland, leaving US and Irish investigators clueless as to his whereabouts - until an RTÉ<i> Documentary on One</i> podcast picked up his trail decades later.<br><br><i>Runaway Joe</i> is the story of a man who reinvented himself with chilling ease - a portrait of a remorseless manipulator whose acts left devastation across continents.</p>