{"product_id":"runaway-joe","title":"Runaway Joe","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;AN INVESTIGATION INTO ONE OF THE OLDEST UNSOLVED CASES ON THE FBI'S BOOKS, SPANNING SIX DECADES AND THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;1967. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Years later, a charming stranger calling himself Michael O'Shea surfaced in Dublin.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Claiming roots in the west of Ireland, he married a local woman and sold his garage business to buy a grand country estate.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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\u0026lt;i\u0026gt; Documentary on One\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; podcast picked up his trail decades later.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Runaway Joe\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; is the story of a man who reinvented himself with chilling ease - a portrait of a remorseless manipulator whose acts left devastation across continents.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487919513973,"sku":"9781804442579","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804442579.jpg?v=1786355140","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/runaway-joe","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}