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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.
maynard had escaped. >> right away you start the whole search of all the interior of the perimeter, you look for breaches in defense you look for breaches in the gates or anything like that. >> they also traced every vehicle that left the prison that day and discovered that one vehicle hadn't been searched. a van. >> we had to search inside the van, underneath the van, on top of the van you put seismic sensors on it and it will discover the heartbeat of a mouse. there is a mouse in the vehicle. >> but this time they didn't. >> they didn't do it. they didn't follow procedures. >> the van belonged to safe harbor, and nationally heralded prison program that taught inmates how to train straight dogs for adoption. several dogs had been picked up from the prison, john maynard it turned out was one of the dog handlers, investigators interrogated every inmate who had helped load the dogs into the van. >> they drill down and drill down and talk to all of the folks until you finally get somebody who is willing to talk. >> where does that lead you?
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
>> where that lead was that we were very sure that he had left inside the dog crate. there were other inmates who knew that because he had to get into the dog rate and had to have someone fast enough shot from the outside and loaded into the van. >> there were fewer guards at the prison on sundays and only two prisoner counts, the weather may have helped maynard too. >> the day of the escape was very cold, people didn't want to be outside. they were ready to get the dogs in the van and get them out of there. what they didn't know, of course, is that john was in one of the dog crates. >> and that, investigators believed, instantly put the driver of the van in harm's way. the founder of safe harbor, a woman named toby young. she was one of the most popular and trusted volunteers at the prison. and perhaps the reason the guards let their guard down. are you thinking toby's life could be in danger? >> oh, absolutely. we figured that he is in for murder in the first place and i
locals in the tiny prison town along the kansas border that a criminal was on the loose. >> i had a huge esteem whistle and would blow that several times and so all the local communities know when you hear that, somebody is on the run. it's just an overt be aware -- lock your doors, take all the precautions. >> as police increased patrols in the surrounding towns, tourism investigators got to work trying to figure out how maynard had escaped. >> right away you start the whole surge of all the interior of the perimeter, you look for breaches in defense you look for breaches in the gates or anything like that. >> they also traced every vehicle that left the prison that day and discovered that one vehicle hadn't been searched. a van. >> we had to search inside the van, underneath the van, on top of the van you put seismic sensors and it will discover the heartbeat of a mouse. there is a mouse in the vehicle. >> but this time they didn't. >> they didn't do it.
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 present. 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 think that. 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 manacled laugh. and i thought, oh crap, he is in there.
what they didn't know, of course, is that john was in one of the dog crates. >> and that, investigators believed, instantly put the driver of the van in harm's way. the founder of safe harbor, a woman named toby young. she was one of the most popular and trusted volunteers at the prison. and perhaps the reason the guards let their guard down. >> are you thinking toby's life could be in danger? >> oh, absolutely. we figured that he is in for murder in the first place and i just had visions, as they get away from here driving away he pops out of the box and takes her literally hostage and then how long before he is done with the hostage? it just gives you chills, fear of what could happen. >> toby young set out to help prison inmates, now she may be the victim of one. coming up -- her family desperate. >> people were trying to call our cell phones and there were
they didn't follow procedures. >> the van belonged to safe harbor, and nationally heralded prison program that taught inmates how to train straight dogs for adoption. several dogs had been picked up from the prison, john maynard it turned out was one of the dog handlers, investigators interrogated every inmate who had helped load the dogs into the van. >> they drill down and drill down and talk to all of the folks until you finally get somebody who is willing to talk. >> where does that lead you? >> where that lead was that we were very sure that he had left inside the dog crate. every inmate knew that because he had to get into the dog rate and had to have someone fast enough shot from the outside and loaded into the van. >> there were fewer guards at the prison on sundays and only two prisoner counts, the weather may have helped maynard to. >> the day of the escape was very cold, people didn't want to be outside. they were ready to get the dogs in the van and get them out of their.