at some point, their handcuffs come undone. tracy mobley immediately got up and then took off running southbound. morris asks the court officer to call for help and runs after mobley, the one with an extensive rap sheet. meanwhile, terry myer, a local private detective, just happens to be driving behind the bus when it stops at the light. they pulled out on the street right here into the second middle lane, and i was right behind them in a small convertible. that s where the two prisoners escaped. shellshocked from the spill, morrissey doesn t know where to go. she makes a half-hearted attempt to hide in front of the sheriff s station, realizes that s a bad idea, and wanders back past the jail slowly. myer leaves his car running in the middle of the street and pursues mary ann morrissey. i thought they were filming a movie somewhere. i looked all around. i was about to back up. i didn t want to spoil their scene. then i realized it was a real escape attempt. he catches up t
and they looked at me like they didn t know what was going on. they didn t know there was an attempted escape. at the same time officer morris chases mobley across a busy street and corners her at the edge of the freeway where she s hiding in the bushes. i m not sure what she was trying to do because from this point on there s nowhere to go. it takes 15 minutes for sheriff s deputies to show up to reclaim their prisoner whose back is broken from the failed escape. for his efforts terry myer receives an award. while morris gets a thrill from the chase. i had been a homicide detective for about 15 years and i had not had to chase anybody for at least ten years. this was almost like being a young officer again. tracy mobley is sentenced to four years in prison for her audacious escape attempt and her original charges. mary ann morrissey gets three years probation for the escape attempt.
video while the prisoners are going onto the bus? don t they do a beginning count when they start to go out? don t they do an ending count on the bus? then they would have known they were short two prisoners. oblivious that two prisoners are underneath the bus instead of inside it, the bus pulls out onto the street. officer morris just happens to be standing steps away. he was pulling out exactly the way he is now, with prisoners aboard like he has right now. pulled out, made it to probably just about right there. incredibly, the prisoners cling to the underside of the bus for a full five minutes, mere inches off the ground. as the bus stops at a red light, they lose their grip and fall, hitting the ground hard. at some point their handcuffs come undone. tracy mobley immediately got up and then took off running southbound. morris asks a court officer to call for help and runs after mobley, the one with an extensive rap sheet. meanwhile terry myer, a local
private detective, just happens to be driving behind the bus when it stops at the light. they pulled out on the street right here into the second middle lane, and i was right behind them in a small convertible. that s where the two prisoners escaped. shellshocked from the spill, morrissey doesn t know where to go. she makes a halfhearted attempt to hide in front of the sheriff s station, realizes that s a bad idea, and wanders back past the jail slowly. myer leaves his car running in the middle of the street and pursues mary ann morrissey. i thought they were filming a movie somewhere. i looked all around. i was about to back up. i didn t want to spoil their scene. then i realized it was a real escape attempt. he catches up to morrissey down the block and cuffs her. within seconds of her escape, myer walks the defeated captive back to the courthouse. but nobody at the sheriff s office seems to notice their missing prisoners. they were surprised. i said, you guys want your pri
extensive rap sheet. meanwhile terry myer, a local private detective, just happens to be driving behind the bus when it stops at the light. they pulled out on the street right here into the second middle lane, and i was right behind them in a small convertible. that s where the two prisoners escaped. shellshocked from the spill, morrissey doesn t know where to go. she makes a halfhearted attempt to hide in front of the sheriff s station, realizes that s a bad idea, and wanders back past the jail slowly. myer leaves his car running in the middle of the street and pursues mary ann morrissey. i thought they were filming a movie somewhere. i looked all around. i was about to back up. i didn t want to spoil their scene. then i realized it was a real escape attempt. he catches up to morrissey down the block and cuffs her. within seconds of her escape, myer walks the defeated captive back to the courthouse. but nobody at the sheriff s office seems to notice their missing prisoners.