Sparky
11-10-2000, 10:06 AM
Somebody recently shared this with me. I thought it was great!
"In May, 37-year-old convicted murderer John Woolard and 42-year-old Roy Harper (serving 88 years for several robberies) escaped from a Mississippi prison. Over the course of a few days, they made their way to Indiana, but just recently Harper explained in a letter to The Times newspaper in Munster, Ind., what brought him and his pal to town.
Apparently, they discovered that they'd been featured on a segment of Fox-TV's "America's Most Wanted" show within a few days of the escape.
Harper writes in his letter last week: "We made the decision to head to the northeastern part of the country when we discovered we had been on 'America's Most Wanted.' . . . Our reasoning was that the greatest threat to us was being recognized by a citizen who had seen the show, and we felt it was less likely we'd run into any armed citizens in the Northeast as opposed to say, the South or West. Too many citizens in the South and West carry guns."
Instead, it was an Indiana officer who shot at the escapees when they opened fire on police and initiated a high-speed chase on parts of Interstate 65 in a stolen van."
Yep! Known far and wide for our southern hospitality!
Ya'll come back now, y'hear!
[This message has been edited by Sparky (edited 11-10-2000).]
"In May, 37-year-old convicted murderer John Woolard and 42-year-old Roy Harper (serving 88 years for several robberies) escaped from a Mississippi prison. Over the course of a few days, they made their way to Indiana, but just recently Harper explained in a letter to The Times newspaper in Munster, Ind., what brought him and his pal to town.
Apparently, they discovered that they'd been featured on a segment of Fox-TV's "America's Most Wanted" show within a few days of the escape.
Harper writes in his letter last week: "We made the decision to head to the northeastern part of the country when we discovered we had been on 'America's Most Wanted.' . . . Our reasoning was that the greatest threat to us was being recognized by a citizen who had seen the show, and we felt it was less likely we'd run into any armed citizens in the Northeast as opposed to say, the South or West. Too many citizens in the South and West carry guns."
Instead, it was an Indiana officer who shot at the escapees when they opened fire on police and initiated a high-speed chase on parts of Interstate 65 in a stolen van."
Yep! Known far and wide for our southern hospitality!
Ya'll come back now, y'hear!
[This message has been edited by Sparky (edited 11-10-2000).]