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after the dogs, and the dog crate were loaded into the van, she drove back out past the guards, pass the barbed wire. fearing what would happen next. and hoping a little that it would not. >> and i did say, john are you in there? and he did not answer. and i thought, oh thank god. he is not in there. and i'll just go to a dog adoption. and we don't have to do this thing. and then i heard this laugh. and i thought, oh crap, he is in there. and i pulled over, and i just stopped. and then he popped his arm out of the box that was in the crate. and said drive! toby drive! >> they traveled at night. mostly on backcountry roads. but then, just 15 minutes from their hideaway. they got lost and toby saw a sign of manard she had never seen before. >> he said, you know, i don't know why i brought you along if you could not figure out directions. and he was upset, and he was
just want to get away from it all. but, you do realize that this is nuts! >> it is crazy, it is totally nuts. >> but that's the path that i chose. >> about a month before d-day, she and manard came up with a plan. he would lose weight. 25 pounds to be exact. so he could fit into a cardboard box that could fit into one of toby's dog crates. then, toby rented a storage unit. emptied her bank accounts, disguised herself as molly rose to buy the getaway truck. then silently bid farewell to her old life, and each of her sons. >> i think as a mom, that's the hardest part for me. is that, i couldn't say goodbye to my children. >> it was definitely the hardest part. and, i don't know how i thought that that would work. >> on that sunday, toby nervously drove the safe harbor van to the prison.
manard could be using toby. and she was in danger. now, the race was on and police were about to get a crucial tip. back to andrea canning with breakout! >> toby young had turned from a woman who had never committed a crime, to an apparent criminal on the run. investigators issued a warrant for her arrest, the warrant called the family to deliver the news. >> we were shocked thinking that they have to be wrong. they have to be wrong and that this can't be right. >> this is not the toby that i know? >> exactly. there is no way. i was filled with questions on why she would do something like this. i had no idea but i knew that she was my sister and that i loved her. >> it is one thing for her brother to support her as this is unfolding. it's another thing for her husband because this is up a
and this was something i had been craving forever. and somebody to just have conversations with. >> and then, around six weeks before the escape, they crossed the line. >> we were just setting up for a dog event and he just leaned over and kissed me. it was like, i was on cloud nine. it just made it, like, unquenchable. >> there would be no more kisses after that. but toby had fallen hard for manard. >> when people start falling in love, they change. there is a big smile on their face. was your husband thinking, what is going on with toby? >> i do think he noticed a difference. but he couldn't put his finger on it. and then at one point, he said to me, if i didn't know better, i would think yet you are having an affair. >> toby said that by that point, what had seemed like the perfect marriage was really a dead end one. and their relationship had been in a slow decline for 20 years. ever since they tragically lost their daughter, shortly after birth. >> we never really dealt with
who vaguely resemble toby thought by ring a truck around the time of the escape. but her hair color was different, and her name was molly rose. investigators believed that was toby incognito. >> so we learned that she had purchased are used chevy silverado pick up truck. we also had information that she actually had the registration, and she wanted it sent to a specific address in tennessee. >> the address was a lakeside cabin in rural tennessee. more than 600 miles away. >> it's a pretty remote location. so not a lot of activity, it is the off-season. and so, we knew there was not probably gonna be a lot of people there. so, it was a great place to hide. >> the fugitive task force blanketed the area. and a swat team headed to the cabin. meanwhile, u.s. marshal jason -- was cruising the parking lot of a nearby mall. keeping an eye out for toby and manard. suddenly, he spotted a white silverado.
moved out of the house, toby says that the pressure and sudden. >> i would be driving somewhere, and i would think. oh, i could just pull over and into the front of that semi truck. and just be done. and, i would find myself thinking, where did that come from? what is it that you think you need to get away from? >> the answer, she realized, was her marriage. so when manard suggested that toby help him escape so they could be together. she couldn't help but think, what if? >> is a part of you wondering, there is a chance that i am being manipulated right now, and i am just a way for him to escape? >> i did not think that at all. i thought that he was madly in love with me and i knew that i was crazy in love with him. and i remember thinking, if this escape works or even if it does not work. i am not going to have to say in this marriage anymore. >> but toby, you can get divorced! >> i know! >> you don't need to break an inmate out and run away with this person to escape a bad marriage! >> i do know that. >> so many women, i'm sure, have had that feeling of, i
told them that the family didn't have any trips planned. and she hadn't bought them any new clothes lately. >> the clothing that she was buying was not for the husband. >> there were other items that clearly weren't for the husband. black hair dye, and an electric razor that she bought at target. and two burner phones she brought at walmart. the next day, police got their biggest break yet. they learned that she had rented a storage unit on the outskirts of town a week before the escape. >> they discovered her van inside the storage unit, tire tracks leading away from the unit. >> investigators believe that those tracks were from the getaway vehicle. an suv or a truck. >> finding this really changed the investigation in a really significant way. >> investigators now wondered, instead of being manard hostage. could toby be his accomplish? they found the answer in her cell phone bill. there were hundreds of calls to an unknown number. they trace it to a phone that they believe toby's smuggled into prison for manard. >> this was the first major line that she crossed. she brought him a phone and they talk for something like 12,000 minutes over the next
often make sense. >> you heard it right, toby says that this is a love story. she says that she first noticed john manard about a year and a half earlier as she was walking across the prison yard. >> he was walking straight at me, and he stuck out his hand and said hi, i'm john. i wanted to be your next dog handler! >> he soon joined her program. nothing happened between them, until about a year later. when manard came to toby's rescue. she was being threatened by an inmate who had cornered her. >> i was terrified. and then i saw john manard swaggering up. from behind this inmates that was accosting me. and i felt this sense of relief, because i thought, oh, now here comes somebody that will help me. >> toby started spending more time around manard who was 20 years younger. >> we would have these really deep conversations about life and the world.
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had noticed toby and manard we're spending a lot of time together. >> some of the staff had talked to my s.o. and said they seem to be a little too close. and i know that they talk to her about that. you have to be very careful about those appearances. >> but everything was under the microscope now. including this. in addition to the cash that her husband reported missing. she had emptied her retirement account to the tune of $40,000. she also went on his shopping spree at walmart, target, and a cabelas sporting goods store. >> so there's security footage of her at walmart buying men's clothing. and a lot of snacks that a teenager might want. like twizlers, chocolate covered donuts. they see her at the sports goods store by men's clothing. >> more than that, camping and survival gear and masks. and that is when investigators asked her husband about those purchases.