Posted: 6/15/2005 1:46:26 PM EDT
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If you havent read this article in the July 05 issue of MAXIM, I suggest checking it out. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROOFTOP ROBBER Jeffrey Allen Manchester deeply believed in God, country, and robbing fast-food joints. Meet the nicest guy to ever take a good number of innocent people hostage." Atricle starts on p.104 http://www.mugshots.com/IMAGES/Mugshot__manchester.jpg Great Escape (this is from this link) Jeffrey Allen Manchester, 33, was four years into a 45-year sentence for robbery when he escaped from North Carolina's "escape-proof" Brown Creek Correctional Institute by clinging to the underside of a delivery truck. He eluded authorities for six months, posing as a church volunteer who told his new girlfriend and the congregation that he had a secret government job. At night, he hid inside a Toys "R" Us store. When the store became too crowded at Christmas, he made a secret passageway to an adjoining vacant store and built a 4-by-10-foot cubicle under a stairwell. Using a stolen gun, Manchester tried to rob the toy store, but two employees slipped out, forcing him to flee through his secret door and leading police to his hideaway and identity. They enlisted the girlfriend, Leigh Wainscott, to invite Man-chester to her home, then arrested him. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Sgt. Kath-erine Scheimreif said Manchester's big mistake was "going back for the girl one last time." After his capture, his mother said he admitted, "Mom, I kind of lost focus." Full story in Maxim July issue. My apology if this is a dupe post. RRA-A2 |
