WEBVTT - The Barefoot Bandit: Colton Harris Moore 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:07.800 Elizabeth Dutton ZD so glad to see you, Good to 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.880 see you. Do you know it's ridiculous? 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.760 I do. I do our email inbox. 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:15.200 Oh yeah, I don't even get close. 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:19.400 It's ridiculous. The interns forwarded me this one though, That 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:25.360 is pretty good. Subject tv head fromhead from Jeff Hammer. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:29.560 Okay, haad, it's a. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.879 Good afternoon, Ridiculous Crime crew. It has been brought to 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:38.120 my attention that, in true Henrico County, Virginia weirdness, there 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.640 was a guy in twenty nineteen wearing a TV on 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:45.000 his head leaving old box type TVs on people's porches 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.959 in the middle of the night. Links provided below. The 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.600 wild thing is that all of the sets left on 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.000 people's porches were operational. They identified the man the press 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.800 dubbed TV head, but to the best of my knowledge, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.600 he was never charged, although he was suspected of committing 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:08.000 several burglaries in the area. I found out, yeah, I 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.600 found out about this talking to a colleague because here 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.840 on the opposite end of the state, a man was 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.920 recently arrested for taking a ride on a shopping buggy 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:19.080 out of a discount grocery store and riding it on 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.520 the highway. He told the arresting officer that he was 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.520 quote tired of walking everywhere. Somehow, that one didn't make 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.160 the local news. I've seen some weird things and dealt 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.560 with some really strange people in the sixteen years I've 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.840 worked in the private security and law enforcement fields. But 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:36.800 I think these two might take the cake. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:38.280 Oh nice ones. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:42.640 Jeff the TV head? How big is the TV on 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:47.400 his head? And is it wobbley? Is what happens? 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.600 Is he a member of Parland Funkadelic? Perhaps good question? 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.120 Is he is he the one behind the max headroom hacking? 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.400 Have you seen the guy in New York who rides 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.480 around on a mini bike with a like a microwave 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.040 on his head. No slides up and then the microwave 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:04.600 door opens up and there's a guy's head in there, 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:05.880 and he's like he starts talking and he gives you 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:07.880 like safety advice, and then he closes it with a 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.320 flick of his head and he rides off on his 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.560 mini bikes. Cousin so New York. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.320 Yeah, it's amazing and ridiculous. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.320 Totally ridiculous. Thank you, mister Hammer. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:18.400 Thank you, Jeff Hammer. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.839 So, uh you got a second though, I got something 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.840 for you. It's totally ridiculous. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.080 Yes, get like ridiculous. 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.040 I heard that about you. We get a lot of 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.320 requests for certain stories, right, and frankly, it's kind of 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.400 ridiculous that I have never covered this story. Why is 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:35.359 it taking me so long? 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.399 What's wrong with you? 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.720 I want to tell you, Elizabeth, the story of my 0:02:39.840 --> 0:03:07.240 new favorite anti hero, the Barefoot Bandit Man. Theis Ridiculous 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:11.919 Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. Heis and 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.400 cons It's always ninety nine percent murder free, a one 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:21.080 hundred percent ridiculous Yes, oh, Elizabeth arn Long before this 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.200 cat was known as the Barefoot Bandit, his government name 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.160 was Colton Harris. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.320 More, Colton Harris Colter. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.160 I'm gonna call him Colt Okay now born on March 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.000 twenty second, nineteen ninety one. He arrived in this world 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.600 in Washington State. You know the upper left corner of 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.160 the map. Yeah, place called Camono or Camano Island in 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.480 the San Juan Islands. I think it's Camono Islands now, 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.840 My man, Colt. He did not have a normal or 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.760 even what we call a safe childhood. He was, unfortunately, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.240 was raised into a home that was headed for an 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:50.040 ugly split. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:50.600 Elizabeth. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.920 Yeah, the divide occurred when he was a toddler. His 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.440 parents broke up. His father left him and his mother, 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.840 Pamela alone. They were left to live in a single 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:03.080 wide trailer in Washington. Yeah. So what made matters more 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:04.960 dire was the fact that his mother was a full 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.680 blown alcoholic. Oh god, yeah, rough, rough business for this kid, 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.120 which means also for her elementary school aged son. His 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.680 life was unstable, his home life chaotic, abusive, all the 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:16.159 bad things. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:17.720 Right, it's a great story, thank you. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.560 Not only that he was also bullied at school, Elizabeth. Oh, 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.880 there was no escape for Coult. Yeah, right, finally one day, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:26.880 but this is before he's a teenager. He runs away 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.400 from home. He spends his days living alone in the 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.640 forest on the Camino Islets. It's like a well rainforest ground. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.040 Right, that must have been really peaceful for yeah. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.960 Except for he's a you know, almost a teenage boy. 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.120 He's a growing boy. So to eat, he breaks into 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.800 empty vacation homes I like that. Yeah, And now once 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.159 inside he finds that these homeowners they've left all sorts 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.640 of stuff inside their cabin, so he steals whatever he 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.520 needs to live in the woods. Tents, sleeping bags, camping supply, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:50.120 you name it. 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:51.320 The hermit. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.720 Yeah, very much like that, just the young version, right. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:55.960 So eventually he comes back home to the trailer because 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.120 he's a boy and he can't stay out in the 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.960 woods forever. So at this point, Cult now he reached 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.000 school and he's trying his best to live a normal 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.200 life as he can, and he's going in and out 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.480 a juvie. It's rough, right, But he has a few friends. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.120 He tells them of his forest adventures, trying to impress 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.600 them with what he does when they don't see him. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:11.960 Yeah. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:15.080 One of his classmates this a girl named Christa Postma. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.480 She would tell the press how her friend Colt would 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.000 often get in trouble at school. You know, as I've said, 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.279 but she also said the Cult was quote a nice kid, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.040 and he quote seemed really smart, though he didn't know 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.600 how to put that into his schoolwork. I relate to 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.200 this kid, you know, I didn't know how to do 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.719 it either. So another classmate, he remembered how Colt would 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.600 sleep in class, you know, just put his head down 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.680 on the desk, the teacher called on him to embarrass him, 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.039 Colt would recite back what the teacher just said, like 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:43.600 near him, verbatim. 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.160 I always feel like, if you're a teacher and a 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.480 kid falls asleep, like the first time, wake come up. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:50.880 If it happens a lot, something's happening, right, I don't 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.200 have a home, and maybe just let the kids sleep. 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:57.279 For real, right, be a little considerate, thoughtful yea. Anyway, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.440 this kid, obviously he's an intelligent kid. He's able to 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.279 recite back to the teacher. He doesn't need to pay attention. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.320 He gets bored, you know. Now after school, Krista and 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.480 Colt they would hang out together in this town. There 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.120 wasn't a lot of places for them to go, so 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.080 they'd hang out outside the local library. Now, one day, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.560 this kid who's a couple of years older than them, 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.880 this kid, his name is Harley Davidson iron Wing. 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.960 Stop the press is Harley. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:23.560 Harley Davidson iron Wing. Now it is christ I love this. Yeah, 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.680 So she recalls old Harley Davidson iron Wing, and he 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.400 had an instant influence on Colt. As she put it, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.960 when Colt quote wasn't around Harley, he'd be totally chill. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.800 When Harley showed up, Colt would suddenly be all, I'm 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.320 so big and bad ou Right, you. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:42.160 Got a friend named Harley Davidson Ironing, You'd. 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.679 Never go wrong in such a common story of people 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.919 like us, like punk kids. You're like, oh, yeah, my 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:48.320 friend Harley David's and iron Wing. 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.320 That's like his government name, right. 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.200 That's government name, that's not his street name. Yeah, that's amazing, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.640 So naturally, Elizabeth, Harley Davidson iron Wing had been in 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.240 juvie and for two years, and he knew the ins 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.320 and outs of street. He knew the rules of how 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.479 to make it as a low level crimer. He taught 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.080 Colt everything he knew. So Harley Davidson iron Wing comes 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.520 from a similar background. Obviously home broken by divorce, raised 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.600 by a single mom. His mother is also a drinker, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.520 she does drugs, also abusive. So these kids are they 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.640 totally get each other, right, two bad boys quickly bond. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.520 His new mentor if you will, takes Colt under his 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.120 wing and teaches him how to iron criminally fly. Thank 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:28.560 you so, And this this point he teaches cult how 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.840 to pick locks, how to break into these nice expensive 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.040 luxury vacation homes on the island Harley Davidson, iron Wing. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.400 He also shows him how to find the likely places 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.520 keys are hidden, like all the things you know, like, oh, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.560 people don't like to do this, that kind of thing. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:42.800 Right. 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.840 He gives Colt also with his rule book for vacation 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:47.640 home robberies. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.600 I would love a copy of this rule book. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.200 Well, I got four rules for it. If you watch. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.080 Number one, don't rob somebody's house if you know who 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:55.600 lives there. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:56.520 It's a good one. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:59.360 Good advice because they could recognize you. And also it's 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.520 just not nice to two. There's that as well. Number 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:06.680 two don't turn the lights on ever. Yeah right, Also 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.840 good advice because you don't want to call attention to your. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:13.000 Crimeerprints all over you always with the fingerprints. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.200 Number three, if you get spotted, run, Okay, I like that, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.040 it's probably the best advice. Don't hesitate. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:18.360 Run. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:25.800 And number four, lastly, never feel guilty. Once you choose crime, 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.640 you've already crossed over. It's too late to be guilty, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:28.920 so guiltless. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.760 I mean, I'm cutting these guys a lot of slack 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:33.840 because they're too like troubled kid kids. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.600 Yeah, breaking into vacation home. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.960 Yeah, I have a vacation home, so you know, go forth, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.600 But these kids are going to grow up. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:42.319 It's the problem. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.120 You're talking to my youth, Elizabeth. You don't know what 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.560 they could grow up into. Now, with this general rule 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.920 book guiding him, Colt goes to work as a break 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.120 in artists. Right so, he and old Harley Davidson, they 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.440 work as a team. They break into the luxury vacation 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.800 homes all over the island. Harley Davidson, iron Wing. He's 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.679 a fan of electronics. He also likes jewelry. He likes 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.160 expensive portable items that he can pawn, right, yeah, Colt. 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.880 He likes to steal food. He often will go into 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.360 the houses and make himself a hot meal. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:09.959 Good for him. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.000 He's a kid, so he also likes to play video games. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.800 So like, while Harley Davidson's casing the house, he's making 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.560 like some hot oatmeal and goes sits down to play 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.200 the game of like whatever right now. He's also a 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.520 teenager at this point, so he likes to steal nice clothes, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.560 anything that fits him that might freshen his drip. The 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.880 other kids won't make fun of and over the years, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.760 Colt continues to get into trouble and he gets caught, 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.520 you know, and then the police take him back to 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.520 his mother's place. Sometimes he gets put in juvenile hall. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.280 As I've said, you know, she'd have to come and 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.720 collect him, and then that'd be embarrassing for him. When he's fifteen, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.880 his mother is also getting irritated with this whole thing. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.600 She kicks him out of the house. She's like, I've 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.480 had it with him fifteen. She's done with it. So 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:47.600 now where does Colt go? 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:48.720 To the woods? 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.400 He moves back into the forest. So he lives like 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.560 a real world Peter Pan there on his own never 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.199 never Land, and he continues to break into vacation homes, 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.959 mostly just to eat into amuse him, right, But he's 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.520 a kid, so he also signs of his crimes. Yeah, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.760 he doesn't always follow the old rule book of Harley 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.680 David's an Iron Wing. So the word spreads on the islands. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.440 Some locals they talk, compare notes, they determine there's probably 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.800 some teen boys breaking in. So this casual man begins 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.760 to find this kid. Now, Elizabeth, I think I need 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.559 to do a better job explaining this island. You have 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.960 to understand, this island is like one third vacation homes. Yeah, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:24.640 he just failed. It's a happy hunting ground for a 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:25.360 teenage boy. 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.680 And if you're in, if you're impoverished, it's like rubbing 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.720 it in your face. Oh that this like dichotomy between 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.320 the people who actually live their year round and struggle 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.520 and then the people who swan in, yes and have 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:38.840 a great time totally. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.360 Yeah, And the rest of them are there doing like 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.240 menial tasks that can help these people, like oh, let 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.319 me weld your tanks for your home or whatever. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:46.240 Yeah. Yeah. 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.400 So at this point he's uh, he starts getting a 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.440 little more aggressive in his approach as he gets older, 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.960 and he starts to feel this bitterness in this division, 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.280 if you will. Socially, he starts to steal things like identities. 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.400 So what that means is he steals credit cards. And 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.640 then he learned to become a better thief because rather 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.080 than breaking into homes, he now has owner's credit cards. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.600 So what does he do? Ye uses their computers and 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.240 then he pulls a full on Elizabeth and he goes 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.960 online shopping and has stuff just delivered to the house 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.040 and he just steals it from the front port. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:15.880 What have you heard? 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.120 So he has like all kinds of stuff delivered to 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.240 these vacation homes for him to steal later, and he'd leave, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.679 circle back, come back on like a oh my deliveries here, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:25.800 I got to go back to the house. Boom. He 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.240 gets his packages. Mostly though he's purchasing like survival gear 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:30.880 and food. I don't want to give you the wrong idea. 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.920 He's not like buying like four wheelers. But he comes 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.679 to collect it and he goes back to the forest. Now, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.120 eventually the locals they get the police to start paying 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.800 attention to this because it's starting to ratchet up and 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.520 the crimes that the locals are gossiping about. Everybody's talking 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.600 about it. Cops are fine, we'll investigate. So they go 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.640 out and they find evidence. Oh there's truly are deliveries 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.400 being brought out to houses that are unoccupied. So they 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:56.040 start finding also evidence of identity theft. They're like, oh man, 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.040 this is definitely happening. So the local cops are like, 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.880 this is above our pay right. Yeah. They call in 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:03.199 the FBI. Wow. Yeah, So the field agents arrive. They 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.800 searched the rainforest. 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.960 Camano Island mail fraud. 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.840 Yeah, it's once at that point, is your federal Yeah, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.600 so he They quickly, the FEDS. They quickly locate Colt's campsite, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.560 or rather one of his campsites, because he's got multiple campsites, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.960 but it's this is his main campsite. And the kid 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.920 has a cash of credit cards, check books, driver's licenses, 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:26.560 stolen laptops, oh, iPads, yeah, jewelry, all sorts of stuff, right, 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.920 but also the food and the survival equipment. So what 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.839 they don't find, oh is Colt. Oh he's gone. He 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.640 hears the FBI's choppers and the field agents, is like 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.160 kind of rummaging around in the woods, cuts out, disappears. 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.200 Not even the local police seeum, he sneaks off. So 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.080 where does he go, Elizabeth, He's now out of the 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:46.160 woods to the big city. Goes back to his mother's trailer. Oh, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.480 but he sees the FBI going to his mother's trailer 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.520 and the agent server with a warrant for his arrest, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.679 so he dips out of there. The local cops post 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.559 wanted posters all over the island. 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:55.480 Oh my gosh. 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.160 Yeah. Meanwhile, Colt's still on the lamb. No one's got 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.439 to him. He's somewhere out there in the wood, lurking 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.840 like Bigfoot. It's just a matter of time before he'll 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.680 strike again because he has to. He's gonna get hungry, right, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.680 so he breaks into a vacation home. The local police 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.680 and FBI agents, they're patrolling everywhere waiting for him to strike. Right. Finally, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.600 this night, when he finds his unoccupied home and breaks in, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.160 he does what he normally does. He makes himself a 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.439 hot meal. Right, but he makes one mistake. He forgets 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.920 again what Harley David's and Iron Wing told him in 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.120 the Simple Rule Book for break in Artists. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:27.000 Did he turn the lights? 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.280 He turns on a light while he eats his hot 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.960 meal by himself. The neighbors see the light through the trees. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.160 These neighbors, Elizabeth, they're like you. They're busy bodies. So 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.240 they know no one's supposed to be in that house. 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.679 We know that the lenders are gone. Yeah, so the 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.920 neighbors call the cops. The cops have been waiting for this. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.800 They race across the island, They surround the vacation home. 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.640 Now they're smart. They pull up without turning on their lights, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.400 without turning on their sirens, just silent descent. Right, they're 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.600 able to sneak up on the vacation home and catch 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.679 Colt unaware. Boom gets arrested. February two thousand and seven, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.720 Colton Harris Moore crime spree comes to a sudden screeching stop. 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.600 He's charged with twenty three criminal charges. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:06.240 Yikes. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.040 Yeah, once these charges all get sorted out and the 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.000 lawyers confirm, though, they eventually agree to have Colt plead 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.640 guilty to just three charges because he is a kid, right, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.520 so the prosecutors are satisfied. His sentence. He gets three 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.320 years at a maximum security juvenile detention film. Oh wow, 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.880 I didn't even know they had maximum security juvenile Yeah. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.400 I mean, of course, but I just thought they'd kind 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.240 of put him like in the yard with the adults, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.440 but like separated by offense, you know, like you got 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:30.920 to go to the real prison. But we got a. 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.680 Specials place for you, the kid's table. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.400 Yeah exactly, No, they have their owns anyway, Colt. He 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.160 takes all this in stride. In fact, his behavior improves Elizabeth. 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.840 He settles into this rhythm of life in a maximum 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.800 security juvie facility. He's chom, a model prisoner exactly. He 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.200 likes the attention, the structure works for him. He gets 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:52.160 rewarded for his good behavior, transferred to a lower security facility, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.640 a residential treatment center. Right because he may or may 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.320 not have fetal alcohol syndrome or some damage from his mother. 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.240 Say, goodness, you know, I think this kid's been up 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:02.280 against it from. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.640 Birth, completely up against it is the best way to 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.640 put it. Now, this new group home that they put 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.920 him in, it has no fence, has no prison guards, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.720 just like a nice place for people to rehabilitate. Right. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.920 Short two months after he's transferred there for good behavior, 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:20.080 Colt opens an unlocked window and he's gone. So now 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.160 it's April two thousand and eight. Cold is once again free, 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.600 ready to get back to his criming ways. Oh boy, Okay, Lizabeth, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.000 let's take a little break. Now you got to know 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.200 the boy, and after these ads, I'll tell you how 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.880 this story gets crazy and he earns his gnome to 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:56.920 crime the Barefoot bandit. Oh, Elizabeth, Darren, how do you 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.640 like my man Colt and Harrison more fascinating? Right? 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:00.720 Yeah? 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.440 Well, okay, so at this point he's about to become 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.840 like a real bona fire criminal because now he's been 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.680 inside outside, he's been, he's been, he's had his cherry 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.280 broken by the cops where he's like, oh, you're going 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.600 three away, and he gets he escapes. So now he's 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:13.000 on the. 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:14.920 Lamb and he grows up, and he grows up. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.040 Convicted criminal, all right, So he breaks out the group 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.600 home Colt. He goes back to his old stomping grounds. 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.000 He goes right back to Commono Island or Camano Island. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:22.920 Interesting, I know those. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.000 It didn't take him long for the local authorities to 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:28.840 hear about a new wave of vacation home breaking, and 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:31.160 then they hear the cult escape from Juvie. So they 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.280 put two and two together. They get to four on 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:35.560 their own, and they go only scour the woods of 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.560 the forest. This is of course, also accompanied by all 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.840 kinds of news stories, because now he's making these. The 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.720 local cops look about his incompetent as Keystone cops. So 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.400 like local outlets like Oregon Live, Seattle Times, the host 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.840 intelligence or they're writing about this. Now the national media 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.840 now catches wind of the story. They send reporters out 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.240 to go go see if there's something there, right, national 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.840 news folks. They find his mother's trailer they talk to 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.800 on camera, where she pleads for leniency for her poor 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.280 troubled son. She also asked her son, if he's watching, 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:07.440 to turn himself in. 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.399 You know what again, I think I've said this before. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.280 My advice is that any event of a natural disaster 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.879 or some sort of criminal event, do not get interviewed 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.320 by the television stations. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:20.639 Just very deal will come from that. 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.760 It won't and so just no comment. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:24.600 Best you'll go viral and not in the way you 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:25.120 probably think. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:25.840 Exactly. 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.679 So, now do you think caught these interviews and he 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.720 turned himself in? No? No, no, he did not. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.200 Know because he's not turning on TVs and listening. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:36.200 He's out there with Bigfoot. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.440 Yeah, but he's also if he breaks into a vacation home, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.359 he's not like, well, let's see what's on the news. 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.000 You right to the video games, play some video games, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:43.760 and then bounce out. 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.399 So for the next three months, he keeps evading the 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.359 local police, he keeps breaking into homes, he keeps stealing, 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.439 keeps cooking himself hot meals. He also starts now to 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.639 steal cars because he's like sixteen, Yeah, so he starts 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.240 taking those out for joy rides. And these drives. They're 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.920 a new wrinkle for him because it is his profile 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.720 on the island. Now he's spinning around and there's cops 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.520 in cars. It's not they kept finding him in the woods. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:06.480 Now just on a street. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.199 Well, and there's a big difference between like stealing a 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.560 box of mac and cheese and the water used to 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:14.120 boil the Posita versus there goes my car. 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:15.800 Yeah, there's my that's my BMW. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:16.320 Yeah. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.960 So he gets caught, and this is July eighteen, two 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.439 thousand and eight. My man Colt gets spotted by the cops. 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.760 At the moment, he's driving a stolen whip, a black Mercedes, 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:27.320 Oh Dad, going one hundred miles an hour. Whoa dand 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.040 cops give chase. They keep in mind Cold hasn't been 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:31.840 driving for long. No one really taught him. He's just 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:32.760 been learning on. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.879 His own, like you know, grand theft autos. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:36.800 Pretty much. Going as fast as he is chased by 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.399 the cops, the expected occurs, he crashed, but being my 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.720 man Colt, it doesn't go the way you would think. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.399 He does crash the black Mercedes. You're right about that. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.400 But just before he crashes the car, he leaps from 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.200 the speeding car, oh way, and the black Mercedes goes 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.760 slams into a tree. The cops screeched to a halt, 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.399 and Colt, unharmed, runs for it disappears back into the woods. 0:18:57.400 --> 0:18:59.760 He has the confidence of a kid who's just watched 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.000 and stuff and not been real and. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.320 Still has also like the bones and the like ligaments 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:07.160 and attendance of a kid as well. He can take 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.600 that kind of His cardilage doesn't go what are you doing? 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.400 That's like if I get out of a car too fast, ode. 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.000 I'm lucky if I have cartilage in places still, And 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:18.120 I'm like, oh, hey, there's cartage between those bones. Yes, yeah, 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.960 So the cops they searched the stolen Mercedes he left behind, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:22.959 the one smashed into the tree. Right, the police they 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.040 find this treasure trove of evidence. There's stolen cell phones, 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:30.240 there's credit cards, also importantly a digital camera. Oh. On 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.200 this digital camera, the cops find pictures of Colt. He's 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.399 got like selfies. Yeah. Oh, he's also got pictures of 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.560 his campsite. Right, and the cops they're able to locate 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.600 this campsite, and they go out to the campsite. What 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.199 do they find? They find his dog. You see, he 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.880 had a dog and he left him at the campsite. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.240 So he wasn't very far away. And then the cops 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:51.200 they find this pooch named Melanie, right, and the cops 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:54.879 they take they take Melanie the dog. This changes the 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.560 complexion of Colt's crime sprees. Yeah, I'm serious. The dude 0:19:58.600 --> 0:19:59.600 goes full on john Wick. 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:01.639 Is this say? This is like this is his origins? 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:04.560 Yes? I mean he doesn't go full john he goes 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.919 like ten percent john Wick because there's no guns, but 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.400 also like anger about the dog. That's all there. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.600 I feel it. So he writes, I can see that. 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.879 Oh like you would, you would totally identify with this 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:16.760 kid's Like, well, here, I'll just tell you. So he 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:18.840 writes a note, sends it to his mother because he's 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.359 still in contact with her all the time. So the 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.119 note is about the cops grabbing Melanie. It reads, quote, 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:27.280 the cops want a play, huh it's war? Tell them that. Yeah, 0:20:27.320 --> 0:20:30.480 so Colt coming for the cops this point, Elizabeth. He's 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.280 still on the lamb right, and he's also convicted. So anyway, 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.440 the locals are worried and scared about this guy. Think 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:39.040 maybe he's armed, maybe he's dangerous, you know. Sightings of 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.560 Colt get reported all across the island. He's here, he's there, 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.480 he's everywhere. Right. The locals starts to stock up on 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:48.159 firearms and ammo right, and I'm talking mostly like the 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:49.760 vacation own people, not the local one. 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.399 Imagine fears he's never no. 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:55.840 Never done anyone hard, violent, No, not at all. So 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.320 Colt realizes if he stays on this island, he will 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:00.879 eventually be caught again. So he can only hide out 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:02.960 in the forest for so long. So he tries a 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.040 new tech. What's he do, Elizabeth, I have no idea 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.000 steals a boat. Got to get off the island smart, 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:11.480 So he makes a run for it to a new island, 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.840 a place called Orcas Island. Right like, it goes like 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.000 I'm found by an orca, Like this is Orcas Island. 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.320 When they attack boats, Oh my god, yes, oh my god. 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:22.359 That makes me so happy. 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.800 I get like high reading articles about how killer whales 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:28.200 after yachts. 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.840 Totally destroy them, and you're like, oh, tell me more. 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:32.480 It's like how I feel about elephants when they go 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:36.280 and take it after people. Yeah, side with elephants. I'm sorry. 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.160 I figured they must have done something wrong. I've never 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:41.000 seen an elephant just decide I'm gonna go after them. 0:21:41.000 --> 0:21:42.040 Their total sweet peas. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.160 Yeah, and they have long memories from what I understand. 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:45.640 So and he never forgets. 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:48.439 He ditches his boat when he gets over to Orcas 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:50.639 Island and he treks into the woods because you know, 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:52.400 that's what he knows. He camps out, finds a nice 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:54.320 spot in the woods near a local airport. 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:54.960 Okay. 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.160 Now, Colet always love planes as a boy. He'd watch 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.720 them fly overhead. He could identify them by their cillorette. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.400 I would imagine there's like seaplanes all over the place. 0:22:03.200 --> 0:22:06.240 Exactly, a lot of puddle jumpers, all sorts of planes. Interesting, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.879 a lot of also small aircraft for people flying in 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:10.840 from air. A lot of these islands on the airfields. 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:12.840 So that's like how they get around soup. 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:16.280 So his mother, she would recall, like to the press 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:19.159 about how her son as a boy, just loved planes 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:22.880 right he he could. She would buy him balsa wood models, 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:25.800 like the old school balcewood models, and he would build those. 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.600 He also she bought the books about planes, she told 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:30.600 one reporter, and I quote from the time he was 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:32.520 a little kid. He could look up at any plane 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:34.119 in the sky and tell you what make it was 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:37.160 what engine it had when it was built, and weather 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:38.240 was a good safe one. 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:39.200 Oh. 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.359 Now, at school he would spend his time obviously playing 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:45.200 Microsoft flight Simulator, right, So if you checked his MySpace page, 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.800 you'd find he listed his occupation as pilot, which reminded 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:50.399 me of that guy you told me about on Reddit 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:53.479 the the a t a guy who was like, uh, 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:56.800 his girlfriend got mad because he told people at her 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:58.639 work dinner party he was a pilot. 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.879 He was introducing himself as pilot. Yeah, her work functions. 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.040 And the truth of the matter is he just he'd 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.800 never flown. He had flight simulator going in like a 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:09.280 special room in his house. 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:10.480 Like ten thousand hours on flight. 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:12.760 Simulator exactly, and it was just like but he would 0:23:12.800 --> 0:23:15.600 he would brag about it, but not about being just 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:16.560 sitting in his chair. 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.160 But yeah, and it went on from there. 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.800 But well, that's how I kept picturing this kid. I 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.240 was like, oh, yeah, here we go, another flight simulator pilot. 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:26.680 So there he is camping in the forest. It surrounds 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.320 his local airport. He's watching the small planes land, he's 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:32.080 watching them take off, he's clocking the workers. He figures 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:34.360 out the schedules, the rhythms, and he starts to plan 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:37.560 his next move. What do you think he did, Elizabeth, Well, 0:23:37.720 --> 0:23:41.479 that's right, he stole the plane, my man, amazing. 0:23:41.000 --> 0:23:42.800 So he knows from flight simulator. 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:45.399 It's got to be brutal to be like hanging out 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:47.800 in the woods and seeing this freedom flying over you. 0:23:48.240 --> 0:23:49.200 They can go wherever they want. 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:50.800 Yeah, and you need to go off an island. People 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:53.000 are after you. Yeah, you're like, you're a kid. You're like, 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:53.879 I can do that. 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:54.639 I totally do that. 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:54.920 Yeah. 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:58.760 Do you think he managed to like go out and probably? Well, 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:01.000 rather me tell you about, Elizabeth, I'd like you to 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:05.480 close your eyes. I like you to picture it. It's 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:08.359 a November on a place called Orchis Island in the 0:24:08.400 --> 0:24:10.600 San Juan Chain of Islands. They're off of the coast 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:14.240 of Washington State. It's right around sundown, and you, Elizabeth, 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:17.400 are the little angel on the shoulder of a wayward boy. 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:20.920 You are both there at the stand of trees at 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.639 the edge of the woods, and the boy gazes at 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:25.960 an airfield. You tell him not to do what you 0:24:26.040 --> 0:24:28.400 hear him thinking. But the little devil on his other 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:31.040 shoulder scoffs and laugh and he says, you know you 0:24:31.119 --> 0:24:33.639 want to do it, do it now. Without warning, the 0:24:33.640 --> 0:24:37.320 teenage boy hops over the deer fence runs towards the airfield. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:39.280 You hang on to his shoulder as he runs for 0:24:39.320 --> 0:24:41.720 a Cessna one eight two sky lane. It's a simple 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:43.800 plane to fly. It's a sort of plane that beginners 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:47.399 get comfortable flying alone. It's the VW Bug of airplanes. 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:49.680 Now there's one sitting alone in a hangar, and the 0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:52.080 kid runs right for that hanger. He's a big boy. 0:24:52.119 --> 0:24:55.560 This kid is six foot five wa His six foot 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.639 five frame lumbers across the grass and he makes it 0:24:58.680 --> 0:25:00.880 to the hangar. You try to reason with the boy, 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:03.320 tell him you've had your fun, time to go home, 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:05.919 But he listens to the little devil instead, and he 0:25:05.960 --> 0:25:08.840 picks the lock door. The door swings open. The teen 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:11.760 sneaks in. He finds keys hanging on a hook. You 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:14.200 plead with him to stop what he's doing. Someone could 0:25:14.280 --> 0:25:17.480 get hurt. You're something of a worry word, Elizabeth, and 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:19.879 he ignores you again. Instead, he climbs into the Cessna, 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:21.960 but he doesn't start it up right away. That's a 0:25:22.040 --> 0:25:25.560 relief for you. Instead, he finds the manual. He reads it. 0:25:25.840 --> 0:25:29.479 You're glad that he's checking the section on autopilot safety first, 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.000 you think. Plus, you know he has played a ton 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:35.439 of Microsoft flight simulator in the game. The Cessna one 0:25:35.480 --> 0:25:38.080 eighty two is the dashboard you learned to fly on. 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:41.520 Now he's sitting behind the real deal. He studies the manual, 0:25:41.560 --> 0:25:44.040 compares the real dashboard to what he knows to see 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:47.440 if it's all the same gauge's same controls. By sunrise, 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.480 he feels he's got it. He spent the entire night studying, 0:25:50.640 --> 0:25:52.840 So now he hops out, goes to open the roll 0:25:52.920 --> 0:25:56.440 top door of the hanger. You suggest to him, you've 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:59.000 had your fun, now time to go, But the little 0:25:59.000 --> 0:26:01.520 devil on his shoulders forget her. You deserve to have 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.440 some fun now cold agrees with him. Now not you, 0:26:04.480 --> 0:26:07.680 So he grabs the planes tobar and uses the full 0:26:07.840 --> 0:26:10.840 leverage of a six foot five frame two hundred pounds 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:13.639 to push the plane out of the hangar. You beg 0:26:13.760 --> 0:26:16.280 and plead for him to stop. On the tarmac. He 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:19.800 hops into the stolen Cessna, fires up that two hundred 0:26:19.800 --> 0:26:22.960 and twenty five horspower fuel injected engine. You argue, you plead, 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:25.720 you guilt, but no one is listening to you. Elizabeth. 0:26:25.920 --> 0:26:28.440 Colt points the nose of the plane south. He taxis 0:26:28.480 --> 0:26:31.200 down the runway. This is it, it's really happening. At 0:26:31.200 --> 0:26:33.960 the end of the runway. Is the ocean well, Puget sound. 0:26:34.200 --> 0:26:36.280 You tell Colt that he doesn't get his takeoff right, 0:26:36.280 --> 0:26:38.919 he's gonna be a bad please to crash. The devil's 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:43.240 his go ahead. Colt pops the plane's toe breaks, He 0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:46.560 grabs the throttle pushes it forward. The propeller's plane engine 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:49.840 roars to life. The aircraft starts to roll forward, quickly 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:52.640 picking up speed. The airstrip is short. It's also thin. 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:56.920 You argue, do not do this too late. Now hold on, Elizabeth, 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:59.520 because the plane's about to roll right off the runway. 0:26:59.680 --> 0:27:02.960 Colt smashes down on the right rudder pedal. That counteracts 0:27:03.000 --> 0:27:05.720 the pull of the propeller's spin and the torquet generates. 0:27:06.119 --> 0:27:08.600 Quick thinking, you say to him, you remind cult that 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:10.920 he could still turn off the plane engine and get out. 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:14.040 The plane continues to pick up speed. The propeller chops 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:17.160 at the air The plane reaches sixty miles an hour. 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:20.199 That's the magic number. You feel the plane lift up 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.399 from the runway and it takes off you see the 0:27:22.480 --> 0:27:25.680 sun is also lifting up over the eastern horizon, cresting 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:28.680 over Mount Baker, which is blanketed in snow. It's like 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:32.960 dyllic Don's first leg. Colt banks the Sestana towards the 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.399 rising sun, Elizabeth. Nothing for you to do now but 0:27:36.640 --> 0:27:39.359 enjoy the view. Colt turns again heads south. He can 0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:41.800 see his home from here, well, his home, Camano Island. 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:45.359 Colt continues flying south by southeast over the forested woods 0:27:45.400 --> 0:27:49.400 of mainland western Washington. Next you see Seattle, which looks 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:53.040 beautiful from the air. Look, there's Pike Street Market, you 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:55.760 hear yourself saying, Colt flying at the ceiling of ten 0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:57.879 thousand feet, close enough to see the faces on the 0:27:57.920 --> 0:28:00.840 ground still, and also it's early so the city is 0:28:00.880 --> 0:28:03.840 mostly asleep. Once he flies past Seattle, he aims for 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.040 the next SPECS thing he can see from a distance, 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:09.960 a snow capped Mount Rainier. You comment on how pretty 0:28:09.960 --> 0:28:12.800 it looks in the morning light. The little devilt imitate you. 0:28:12.840 --> 0:28:18.720 Oh help, Then he laughs, and again Colt follows his advice. 0:28:18.760 --> 0:28:21.920 He follows the Cascade Mountain range heading east. You tell 0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:26.119 him mountains make for very choppy air. Read turbulence. You 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:28.520 try to remind cult that he's in a tiny propeller 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:31.800 plane flying for the first time ever. Also, it's November, 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:35.600 storm grade winds. They come ripping off the Cascade Mountains. 0:28:35.600 --> 0:28:38.400 Soon enough, the Cessna gets hit by a storm force wind. 0:28:38.600 --> 0:28:42.680 The Little Devil laughs gleefully as the tiny plane is 0:28:42.720 --> 0:28:44.880 cast about in the sky like some small ship and 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:48.200 storm toss seas. Only these seas are the sky. One 0:28:48.320 --> 0:28:51.440 wind verse hits the Cessna like an invisible dump truck, 0:28:51.680 --> 0:28:54.239 smashing into the Blaine. The Sesta bucks and falls out 0:28:54.280 --> 0:28:57.640 in the sky. Somehow, Colt recovers all his hours of 0:28:57.680 --> 0:29:00.680 flight simulator and indeed paid off. The Little Devil urges 0:29:00.760 --> 0:29:04.280 them on, good, come on, go down. Meanwhile, you're giving up, 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:06.880 arguing you've just closed your eyes. Colt is in heaven 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:10.080 for a few hours. He enjoys this rare view. Finally, 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.960 at eleven am, the fuel gate says fun time over. 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.800 At this point, three hundred miles from where he took off, 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:19.520 somewhere over Yakama Indian Reservation. You suggest, oh, look a 0:29:19.680 --> 0:29:22.560 rural airfields to land, but the Little Devil says, no. 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:27.120 Crash the plane and Colt listens to him. Kid Colt 0:29:27.120 --> 0:29:29.560 tries to spot a soft place to crash land. He 0:29:29.560 --> 0:29:32.280 points the nose of the propeller plane at the earth. 0:29:32.400 --> 0:29:36.680 You scream, you hit it. As the plane plummets and 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:39.240 the ground rushes up, you race for impact and count 0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:44.280 down with cold five. Four, three, You shake your fist 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:48.200 at the little devil on the Colt's shoulder. Two one. 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.880 The plane slams into the ground. It skips over the 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:53.080 dirt like a stone on a pond, and it slams 0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:55.960 back to the earth. The propeller and the ancient chew 0:29:56.120 --> 0:30:00.000 up dirt and prairie until finally the plane stops slide, 0:30:00.040 --> 0:30:03.800 fighting over tall scrub grass and comes to a gentle stop. 0:30:04.080 --> 0:30:06.560 The little Devil looks over at you and says, see, 0:30:06.640 --> 0:30:09.720 I told you he could do it. Oh my god, 0:30:10.480 --> 0:30:13.360 is Elizabeth. I know it's a low bar, but in 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.440 my book, any crash landing you can walk away from 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:17.560 is a successful way. 0:30:17.680 --> 0:30:20.720 We say so a couple a couple of notes on this. 0:30:21.400 --> 0:30:23.840 I like that. I think you wrote yourself into the 0:30:23.880 --> 0:30:24.880 picture it as the devil. 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:27.040 What what are you talking about his shoulder? I don't 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:27.880 know what you're talking about. 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:30.880 And to find out that he's six foot five to 0:30:30.960 --> 0:30:32.600 tell you that it's got to be really tough. 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:35.480 He's got this. 0:30:35.440 --> 0:30:38.560 Giant man body that most men will never achieve at 0:30:38.560 --> 0:30:38.960 that height. 0:30:39.360 --> 0:30:41.760 And like, but he's got the brain of a kid 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:43.080 and a brain that you know. 0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:44.520 Has the impulse control of a kid. 0:30:44.640 --> 0:30:47.080 Yeah, and like his you know, so you have this, 0:30:47.280 --> 0:30:49.680 it's got to be so difficult to navigate the world 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:52.680 that way. God, and the fact that he could study 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:55.120 a manual all night, and so he has. 0:30:54.920 --> 0:30:56.800 These skills really really smart. 0:30:56.880 --> 0:30:58.800 And it's like I hate when people say, oh, you know, 0:30:58.920 --> 0:31:01.160 he could have they could have just directed him purely 0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:04.000 to that kind of education. What they need to do 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:07.200 is understand the soft skills of education of what he 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:09.520 was lacking to be able to apply that, you know, 0:31:09.560 --> 0:31:10.080 to whatever. 0:31:10.120 --> 0:31:12.800 He needed a holistic approach as opposed to just a 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.520 skills based approachable. He needs to do this test and 0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:17.560 showed this person he passed this test and go on 0:31:17.600 --> 0:31:18.480 to make money. 0:31:18.360 --> 0:31:22.520 Right exactly, help the boy become When you said he 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:23.920 was six or five, all of a sudden, I'm like, 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:25.240 oh poor. 0:31:25.280 --> 0:31:27.960 Yeah, I wait until you're seeing him in motion. Yeah yeah, 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:30.760 all right, well respect him a man cult right now? 0:31:30.800 --> 0:31:33.080 His mother she hears about what her son has done, 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:35.600 because the reporters come to send her as soon as 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:39.080 this gets reported, and she says, and I quote, evidently 0:31:39.200 --> 0:31:43.520 he didn't need flight school. So not your typical motherly response, 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:46.120 I'll admit, but we already knew that about her now 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:48.680 his mother, Pamela. She also told reporters who came a 0:31:48.720 --> 0:31:51.479 call and quote, I'm not saying it's right, but if 0:31:51.480 --> 0:31:54.760 he flew those planes, I'm very, very proud of him. 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:56.959 Oh yeah, So at least his mom's proud of him. 0:31:57.000 --> 0:31:59.040 And tell him that, you know, to the TV media, 0:31:59.080 --> 0:32:02.280 and he's catching it apparently. Anyway, She also hopes her 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:04.880 son will start wearing a parachute whenever he steals a plane. 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:07.680 She is, after all, a mother still anyway. Meanwhile, back 0:32:07.680 --> 0:32:11.640 to the crash site, the plane's total course, house cold. 0:32:11.840 --> 0:32:15.800 He's okay, he survives, totally, totally fine. He walks away unharmed. 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:18.959 When the police arrived, no colt, he's gone. Only thing 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:21.760 that they find is his vomit on the dashboard of 0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:24.960 the plane. So apparently he hit and then puked. Right 0:32:25.080 --> 0:32:27.480 the puke just tells the cops what cult ate for breakfast. 0:32:27.520 --> 0:32:29.000 That's the only clues they have to go on. 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:32.480 Yeah, I mean he might have gotten like a. 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:33.200 Like a concussion. Yeah, I'd be willing to bet you 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:34.880 got a concussion. Maybe even like a bruise on his 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:37.840 face or broken nose, something like that cracks some webs. 0:32:38.240 --> 0:32:39.920 But he was not, like he was able to walk 0:32:39.920 --> 0:32:42.040 away and didn't need immediately go to the hospital. 0:32:42.120 --> 0:32:42.280 Yeah. 0:32:42.320 --> 0:32:44.360 So, And there's also no signs of which way he 0:32:44.400 --> 0:32:46.680 disappeared back into the woods. Gone, Yeah, so. 0:32:47.080 --> 0:32:49.080 And he's three hundred miles away from home. 0:32:49.160 --> 0:32:52.960 Yeah, exactly. So at this point, Colt is like he's 0:32:52.960 --> 0:32:55.360 basically Bigfoot with a stolen plane. You know, he's just 0:32:55.400 --> 0:32:58.400 he goes disappears into the woods. The only difference between 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:00.720 him at Big Food is the stolen plane. So what 0:33:00.760 --> 0:33:03.360 does Colt do now that he's officially a pilot? 0:33:03.840 --> 0:33:04.800 Steals another point? 0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:08.120 No, he steals a car. There's a trick question. He 0:33:08.240 --> 0:33:10.200 drives that until he gets he runs out of gas. 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:13.000 And then why does he do that? Because rather than 0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:15.320 hit a gas station where there are cameras which the 0:33:15.360 --> 0:33:18.080 police can use to track down his movement, he ditches 0:33:18.080 --> 0:33:20.880 the stolen car, then steals a new one. He's literally, 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.120 as you've said, going through life like Grand Theft Auto 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:26.360 the Cult version. Now it's spring of two thousand and nine. 0:33:26.360 --> 0:33:28.680 At this point, Cult is still successfully on the run, 0:33:28.800 --> 0:33:32.000 so he does what other older criminals do. He goes 0:33:32.080 --> 0:33:34.480 back home. He returns to Kamlo Islands and for the 0:33:34.560 --> 0:33:37.520 next two months he lays low, really well kind of. 0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:39.640 He hits a few homes and then disappears. And then 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:41.480 in June of two thousand and nine, he's feeling bored 0:33:41.480 --> 0:33:44.680 of a or maybe a little rambunctious, and Colt breaks 0:33:44.720 --> 0:33:47.880 into a police car. He steals a rifle and a 0:33:47.920 --> 0:33:51.880 box of AMMO. Then he melts back in the woods. 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:55.760 So now it's Bigfoot with a rifle. Summertime passes, September 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:58.000 rolls around. He decides to time to island top again. 0:33:58.080 --> 0:34:00.360 So he steals now a quarter of a million dollar 0:34:00.440 --> 0:34:02.720 luxury boat. He's still a two hundred and fifty thousand 0:34:02.760 --> 0:34:03.640 dollars luxury boat. 0:34:03.800 --> 0:34:04.280 Oh my god. 0:34:04.680 --> 0:34:06.560 Takes off for a place called Friday Harbor over in 0:34:06.600 --> 0:34:09.200 San Juan Island. Once he's there, he cases that island 0:34:09.440 --> 0:34:11.360 and what did he do? He gets an itch to 0:34:11.400 --> 0:34:14.319 go flying. Oh my gosh, so second little break can 0:34:14.440 --> 0:34:16.279 after this, I will come back and tell you how 0:34:16.400 --> 0:34:39.680 my man cold gets back into the skies. Were back, Elizabeth, Hi, 0:34:39.840 --> 0:34:40.759 how you dig him? A man? 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:42.000 This is so good. 0:34:42.000 --> 0:34:44.120 See why it's my new favorite anti hero and what 0:34:44.280 --> 0:34:47.120 I relate to him so much? He is for me 0:34:47.320 --> 0:34:50.719 The road untaken? Yeah, the path are passing. The wood 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:55.280 diverged and I took the one less interesting. So anyway, 0:34:55.320 --> 0:34:57.880 my man called, he's at this point. I told you 0:34:58.000 --> 0:35:00.160 he's got an itch to go flying again. He's like 0:35:01.000 --> 0:35:04.120 land of the last plane, So do this again? So 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:05.759 and he also needs to get off an island. So 0:35:05.800 --> 0:35:08.120 he goes down and he finds a local airfield because 0:35:08.120 --> 0:35:09.960 I remember I told all these islands have these small 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.880 little airfields. He finds that one he spots another plane, 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:14.920 not assessmin of this time. This time it's a Serrus 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:17.600 SR twenty two. That's a plane he fancies. It's a 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:19.640 nice plane, right, So he waits for his opportunity. Then 0:35:19.680 --> 0:35:22.360 he sneaks onto the airfield, climbs into the cockpit, starts 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:25.040 the engine, taxis down the runway, and he steals away 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:27.560 into the sky. Colt still hasn't learned how to fly 0:35:27.640 --> 0:35:30.120 a plane, though, other than the manual he read right, 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:33.000 So again he has to crash it. He knows basically 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:34.759 how to handle a plane in the sky, but he 0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:37.239 can't get them down out of the sky, right, so 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:40.920 crashes it on Orches Island. Back to Orchis Island right now, 0:35:40.960 --> 0:35:45.080 Elizabeth Orchis Island is home to four thousand full time residents, okay, 0:35:45.239 --> 0:35:48.640 mini part time residents. The island boasts all kinds of 0:35:48.719 --> 0:35:53.120 vacation homes for real money, like Microsoft millionaires, Boeing contractors. 0:35:53.440 --> 0:35:57.799 Most famous resident Gary Larson of the Far Side fame. Yeah, right, 0:35:58.320 --> 0:36:02.240 so Colt he survives plane crash onto Gary Larson's island, 0:36:02.640 --> 0:36:05.319 and the crash planned it sends up this cloud of smoke, right, 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:06.960 and I've got all these rich people on this island. 0:36:06.960 --> 0:36:09.080 So the authorities come out to investigate. They think maybe 0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:11.960 Gary Larson crashes helicopter or whatever. I don't know. They discover, 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:14.120 oh my god, this is plane crash, but no pilot. 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:17.279 They put two and two together and it's cold. So 0:36:17.400 --> 0:36:20.279 the police spring into action, right. They erect roadblocks, they 0:36:20.320 --> 0:36:22.600 close the docks, the marine is They alert the local 0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:24.759 airfield to be on high alert. We're gonna catch this. 0:36:24.960 --> 0:36:27.480 Sob this time, I don't know how he does it. 0:36:27.520 --> 0:36:30.080 I'm impressed by the fact he does. But somehow cult 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:33.400 evades the roadblocks, the closed harbor, the marina. Somehow he 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:35.880 sneaks down to the water line and he steals a boat. 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:39.080 And he races away in a stolen speed boat. Where 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:44.279 to go now, Canada. He's getting international with it, all right, 0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:47.480 So he jumps the all the cops on his tail 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:50.919 and he makes it over the watery border to Canada. 0:36:51.000 --> 0:36:53.760 Now he keeps playing his one man game of cult GTA. 0:36:54.200 --> 0:36:57.040 He breaks into homes, he commits more burglaries, he steals 0:36:57.040 --> 0:37:00.239 some cars, he ditches them, steals more cars. Ben he 0:37:00.280 --> 0:37:02.560 finds in himself in the place called Creston, Canada, A 0:37:02.560 --> 0:37:04.840 little place now. I guess he gets tired of snacking 0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:08.040 on poutine because he quickly dips back down the lower 0:37:08.239 --> 0:37:11.000 forty eight. He steals a car, drives back across the 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:15.000 border into a town called Bonner's Ferry in Idaho. Now 0:37:15.120 --> 0:37:17.160 he goes to the local airport because he loves those, 0:37:17.200 --> 0:37:20.160 and he promptly steals a Cessna one eighty two, his 0:37:20.440 --> 0:37:23.320 third stolen plane. He flies this one same as the others, 0:37:23.400 --> 0:37:25.520 really well in the sky. He flies two hundred and 0:37:25.520 --> 0:37:28.600 fifty miles west back to Washington and then in a 0:37:28.680 --> 0:37:32.840 town called Granite Falls, he successfully crash lands the plane. 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:35.680 By this point, the national news media is loving this 0:37:35.800 --> 0:37:38.600 crazy kids kid who just keeps stealing planes and crashing 0:37:38.640 --> 0:37:41.000 him and walking away. Yeah, so my man called, He's 0:37:41.000 --> 0:37:44.760 stolen planes, crashed them, survive, stolen expensive boats, escape the US, 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:48.359 escape the fbis, he's stolen cars. He just left them, 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:52.560 dotting the landscape like he's a vehicular Johnny Appleseed right. Naturally, 0:37:52.719 --> 0:37:57.200 all the usual suspects begin to profit off this kid's story. CNN, Fox, 0:37:57.280 --> 0:38:01.520 CBS News, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Today's Show on NBC, 0:38:02.120 --> 0:38:05.000 all of them. They send out the reporters to document 0:38:05.040 --> 0:38:07.680 his crime spreees. They all start to profit off his escapades. 0:38:07.719 --> 0:38:10.359 As his stories keep going viral, go international. He's now 0:38:10.400 --> 0:38:14.279 got a Facebook fan page. It starts popping off, Elizabeth. 0:38:14.280 --> 0:38:16.680 There are kids in Australia who were wearing T shirts 0:38:16.680 --> 0:38:20.080 that say fly Colt and fly You're kidding. Kids in 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:24.120 Italian City's wearing shirts to say Mama tried for cult. 0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:24.840 Wow. 0:38:24.960 --> 0:38:27.440 He was out an international folk hero for teens. 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:28.000 Wow. 0:38:28.160 --> 0:38:30.280 So cult is at this point laying low on the island. 0:38:30.280 --> 0:38:32.399 He still needs to eat, still a grown boys six 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:35.320 foot five, so you know he's hungry. His hunger cannot 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:37.840 be denied, so he breaks into a grocery store steals 0:38:37.840 --> 0:38:41.200 food and some money. He also leaves footprints intentionally, he 0:38:41.280 --> 0:38:44.600 leaves chalk outlined footprints of his bare feet. What see, 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:47.760 I'm telling you, yes, he's bigfoot with a stolen plane. 0:38:48.360 --> 0:38:50.919 But they don't they like the press somehow misses that 0:38:50.960 --> 0:38:54.040 he's like doing like a bigfoot thing. But they instead 0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:56.440 they refer to this chalk outlined feet and they give 0:38:56.520 --> 0:38:58.879 him the nickname the barefoot bandit. Okay, I mean, yeah, 0:38:58.920 --> 0:39:01.560 it's got good alliteration. But clearly the man is doing 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:04.000 a barefoot thing in the bigfoot area and he goes 0:39:04.040 --> 0:39:04.720 out to the woods. 0:39:04.719 --> 0:39:07.200 I mean, come on, do you imagine growing up like 0:39:07.320 --> 0:39:11.719 bigfoot banded. How much the bigfoot bandits legs must have 0:39:11.840 --> 0:39:13.400 ached to be young and six. 0:39:13.760 --> 0:39:16.080 Oh yeah, his bones are just stretching it. You can 0:39:16.160 --> 0:39:21.359 watch them go like a plant. Yeah yeah, huh. So 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:24.839 at this point, my big foot banded with a stolen plane, right, 0:39:24.880 --> 0:39:27.640 the press are all excited. But also I forgot to 0:39:27.640 --> 0:39:30.000 tell you when he did that he left the chalk 0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:32.359 outline of his own feet in the store. He also 0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:35.640 left a note for the cops. Really three letters, see 0:39:36.000 --> 0:39:38.880 dash y, a exclamation point, see you. 0:39:39.360 --> 0:39:40.000 Oh my god. 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:42.399 The media loves this. They brought on this once again. 0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:45.160 The cops and the authorities are furious. They're embarrassed. They're 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:47.760 made to look like fools by the teenage boy Clever. 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:49.920 So what do they do, well, the local cops they 0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:53.360 called the FBI back. Can you guys try again. 0:39:53.400 --> 0:39:55.280 Bail state police they could. 0:39:55.120 --> 0:39:56.920 Oh, yeah, they've they've been doing that, but it's Washington 0:39:56.960 --> 0:39:58.960 State Police. Like Oregon. Washington don't really have like the 0:39:59.000 --> 0:40:01.759 same levels a place to say California, We're used like 0:40:02.080 --> 0:40:05.400 CHP or like sometimes I don't message John. In Oregon, 0:40:05.440 --> 0:40:08.759 this is like as few as eight highway patrol on 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:12.439 patrol at any one time, eight officers in the entire state. 0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:13.000 Whole state. 0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:17.600 Wow, blow me away, anyway. So at this point they 0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:21.439 call the FBI back in. They also call Homeland Security. Yes, 0:40:21.880 --> 0:40:26.839 the federal alphabet agents starts swarming over island, upsetting all 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:29.200 the well heeled locals. This is not why they came 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:31.399 to live in and out of the way island. Elizabeth. Yeah, 0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:33.960 at this point it's May. At the end of the month, 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.480 cops discover a new note and one hundred dollars bill 0:40:36.560 --> 0:40:39.360 taped to the door of a vet clinic. The note is, 0:40:39.360 --> 0:40:43.200 of course from Colt, and I quote drove by, adds 0:40:43.200 --> 0:40:45.839 some extra cash. Please use this money for the care 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:49.759 of animals Colton Harris Moore Aka it's a barefoot bandit. 0:40:49.640 --> 0:40:50.320 Oh Colton. 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:54.600 Yes, so he's leaving money at that to take care of. 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:57.040 Animals, all in the name of Melanie. 0:40:57.120 --> 0:41:00.239 Yeah, telling you it is. That's his motivation. That's where 0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:02.880 he flips and twists and turns and everything becomes like 0:41:03.239 --> 0:41:05.759 the war. So that same day he goes down to 0:41:05.760 --> 0:41:08.000 the docks. He finds a super expensive racing boat and 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.400 he likes it, so he steals it. Boom, he takes 0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:13.440 off to Oregon. Now, my favorite part, Elizabeth, is how 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:17.480 he calls his attorney from this now stolen go fast boat. Yes, 0:41:17.480 --> 0:41:19.560 the man's got an attorney and he's got a phone. 0:41:19.680 --> 0:41:22.040 So what is he to want to talk about. He's 0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:25.520 arranging his negotiated handover to the Feds. No, no, he's not. 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:28.759 Is he negotiating the movie rights for his life story? Yes? 0:41:28.880 --> 0:41:31.319 Yes he is. Wait, he wants a lawyer to ask 0:41:31.400 --> 0:41:34.000 for top dollar for any potential movie to be made 0:41:34.000 --> 0:41:36.200 about him, his life and his crimes. Oh my god, 0:41:36.440 --> 0:41:38.640 of course. Then he goes. He hides out again. Soon enough, 0:41:38.680 --> 0:41:41.920 he grows bored, so Colt steals a car, drives to 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:45.480 yanked In, South Dakota. Yankton Wood. That's a town that 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:48.000 should be fel familiar to the fans of the show Deadwood, 0:41:48.480 --> 0:41:51.600 the Yankedon people. Yeah right, So Yankton, that's where we are, Yankton, 0:41:51.640 --> 0:41:54.719 South Dakota. And Colt sets up shop, starts casing some 0:41:54.760 --> 0:41:57.160 houses he plans to break into. He finds this one 0:41:57.239 --> 0:41:59.920 fitting house, breaks in, makes himself at home, makes himself 0:42:00.080 --> 0:42:02.720 a hot meal. He also takes off his dirty clothes 0:42:02.760 --> 0:42:05.359 and he does a load of laundry. Then he goes 0:42:05.400 --> 0:42:07.360 and he takes a hot shower. You know, he may 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:09.600 have broken in, but essentially he's just stolen a home 0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:12.080 for himself. That's what he's done, right, But the house 0:42:12.120 --> 0:42:14.239 he selected is not a vacation home. It looks like 0:42:14.280 --> 0:42:17.000 a vacation home, it's not a vacation home. Elizabeth, the 0:42:17.040 --> 0:42:19.720 family just happened to be away. Ironically, on vacation. 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:20.319 Oh no. 0:42:20.600 --> 0:42:23.560 So at three am, the family returns home. The Clark 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:26.799 family comes back from their vacation. When mister Clark walks 0:42:26.800 --> 0:42:29.000 into the family home, he senses something just ain't right. 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:31.160 You know what that is? Lights are off, that's not it. 0:42:31.200 --> 0:42:33.360 The weird thing is the TV is on. He's like, 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:34.960 I know, I did not leave the TV on. 0:42:35.120 --> 0:42:35.279 Yeah. 0:42:35.360 --> 0:42:37.839 He's a super observer like you yeah, yeah, Now I 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:40.239 would have noticed that Colt left the remainder of his 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:42.360 hot meal on the kitchen counter. That's what we're to 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:44.880 cut my eyes. So mister Clark, from these two clues, 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:47.120 he's able to determine there's someone in the house. He 0:42:47.120 --> 0:42:49.839 tells his family stay out, and he searches the family home. 0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:52.759 He creeps through the hallways looking for this interloper. In 0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:55.360 the hallway, he notices at the end the bathroom lights 0:42:55.360 --> 0:42:58.720 on the door is a jar. Oh boy, Colt, here's 0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:02.400 footsteps approach. But he doesn't jump out in surprise and 0:43:02.440 --> 0:43:05.360 attack mister Clark. No, instead, he jumps out and just 0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:08.040 runs past him. So mister Clark gets his six foot 0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:10.960 five guy running back him at three am or three 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:12.960 thirty probably at this point, and then he hears the 0:43:12.960 --> 0:43:15.160 guy rush through his house and he recognizes the sound. 0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:17.319 He hears him run down into the basement, and then 0:43:17.360 --> 0:43:19.920 he also recognizes, wait, I know where he is. He 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:23.080 rushes and locks the door. He's trapped Colt in his basement. 0:43:23.120 --> 0:43:25.320 Then he phones the police. The cops rush out to 0:43:25.360 --> 0:43:28.440 the house. You know exactly who this guy is. They're geeked, Elizabeth. 0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:31.719 Yea Colt trapped in a basement with no escape. They 0:43:31.760 --> 0:43:34.799 have him finally, make fun of us. The cops arrive 0:43:34.880 --> 0:43:37.120 at the Clark home and they enter the premises. They 0:43:37.120 --> 0:43:40.280 search the home. They go down to the basement, flashlights drawn. 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:43.480 Just imagine shafts of light peering through the dark. And 0:43:43.480 --> 0:43:46.280 what do they find, Elizabeth, don't guess. I'll tell you. 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:50.760 Colt is gone. He grabbed his laundry from the washing machine. 0:43:50.760 --> 0:43:53.040 That's why he ran down to the basement. He grabbed 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:54.799 his other stuff, and then he wriggled out of a 0:43:54.800 --> 0:43:58.040 basement window, squeezed out gone. He maybe six foot five, 0:43:58.040 --> 0:44:00.560 he still weighs two hundred pounds. He's a thin, big boy. 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:00.839 Yeah. 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:02.960 So he doesn't run far though. He runs to a 0:44:03.000 --> 0:44:06.240 neighbor's house. There he breaks in find some car, Keys 0:44:06.520 --> 0:44:09.400 steals the neighbor's car, drives off my cot man. Colt 0:44:09.440 --> 0:44:10.839 gets away yet again. 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:11.400 Wow. 0:44:11.520 --> 0:44:14.560 The local cops and the FEDS now they know that 0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:17.279 they've got this kid, Colt, and and he's gonna break 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:19.360 a run for a local airfield, right like that's his 0:44:19.400 --> 0:44:21.600 way or he can't get to a boat. He can't 0:44:21.640 --> 0:44:24.960 be this isn't an island. So they say watch the airport, right, 0:44:25.200 --> 0:44:27.960 this high alert works. No plane gets stolen, and then 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:31.880 caution wears off. Days pass. One week later, on the 0:44:31.920 --> 0:44:35.560 fourth of July, when everyone's totally distracted, Colt sneaks onto 0:44:35.600 --> 0:44:38.920 the airfield. Get this, Elizabeth, he steals a plane. 0:44:39.120 --> 0:44:42.719 He's gonna have great views of fireworks, totally amazing expensive 0:44:42.719 --> 0:44:45.160 Cessma this time, not like on a small training plane 0:44:45.160 --> 0:44:45.799 like the first couple. 0:44:45.840 --> 0:44:48.000 This time he steals a Cessna four hundred. It's worth 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:51.200 seven hundred thousand dollars. Oh dang, Yeah, Colt steals the 0:44:51.239 --> 0:44:53.600 plane because you know he plans to fly further than 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:55.960 he's ever flown before. This is a real like, oh, 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:58.200 I can fly to New York in this plane. Oh, 0:44:58.239 --> 0:45:01.600 his plan to fly to Cuba. So he taxes he 0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:04.120 his newly stolen plane down the runway. He climbs back 0:45:04.120 --> 0:45:06.440 into the sky, up there among the clouds, where he 0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:09.560 likes it. He flies across the US. He flies all 0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:12.120 the way to the Atlantic. Then he turns and heads 0:45:12.120 --> 0:45:14.640 for Cuba. But he's not a trained pilot, so he 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:19.640 misjudges one thing, his fuel. Somewhere over the Atlantic, he 0:45:19.719 --> 0:45:21.960 realizes he's almost out of fuel and he will not 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:24.480 make it to Cuba. So what does he do now, Elizabeth? 0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:28.279 He spots the Bahamas on the horizon. He flies for 0:45:28.400 --> 0:45:31.800 the islands and he makes it barely to the Bahamas, 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:34.440 where he crash lands. The seven hundred thousand dollars beauty 0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:37.880 of a plane plays destroyed, but my man Cold walks 0:45:37.920 --> 0:45:43.160 away unharmed. Cold Boom another successful landing. Colt walks to 0:45:43.200 --> 0:45:46.160 a fishing village where he promptly breaks into local stores 0:45:46.160 --> 0:45:50.239 and steals some food. He's hungry again, so then he's 0:45:50.280 --> 0:45:52.359 still hungry, so he breaks into some restaurants and then 0:45:52.400 --> 0:45:55.160 gets some more, throwing teenage boy, what are you gonna do? 0:45:55.239 --> 0:45:57.640 Always starving? So in the news coverage of Cold story, 0:45:57.640 --> 0:45:59.600 there's this one woman who I caught who was like 0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:01.160 once kind of cult and I kind of wanted to 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:03.480 include her because she gives us a little perspective on him. 0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:05.000 She cared for him when he was a she's a 0:46:05.040 --> 0:46:08.040 foster mother, but she cared for him like a foster mother. 0:46:08.120 --> 0:46:09.920 So she sees this at risk youth and she's part 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:12.120 of a program helping kids, and she tries to help 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:14.319 this wayward boy. And she spoke with the press at 0:46:14.320 --> 0:46:16.640 this around this time when people start going, why is 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.520 this kid doing it? She someone finds her and she says, well, 0:46:19.760 --> 0:46:23.040 she believes and I quote Colt didn't intend for all 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:25.520 this to happen. It's gotten away from him now, right, 0:46:25.680 --> 0:46:27.320 She hadn't met him when he was fourteen, before he 0:46:27.360 --> 0:46:29.640 started stealing planes, when he was just doing court ordered 0:46:29.640 --> 0:46:32.000 community service, right, that kind of stuff. He's so one 0:46:32.080 --> 0:46:34.520 day he arrives and she's running the court ordered community 0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:37.400 service in a park, cleaning up. He arrives without any lunch. 0:46:37.400 --> 0:46:40.000 She notices it. She recalls, quote, I fed him, gave 0:46:40.080 --> 0:46:42.719 him water, and he was just so very grateful. Now 0:46:42.760 --> 0:46:44.400 she also noticed it. He was a hard worker. He 0:46:44.440 --> 0:46:47.000 was smart, as I've pointed out, he knew a quote 0:46:47.080 --> 0:46:49.640 ridiculous amount of knowledge of local plants, and he was 0:46:49.719 --> 0:46:53.280 kind hearted, much like her, and she said, and I quote, 0:46:53.320 --> 0:46:55.399 he really struck me as a good hearted kid who'd 0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:58.520 always been looked at with negative expectations. It didn't have 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:00.680 a lot of motivation to feel good about his life, 0:47:01.000 --> 0:47:03.760 yet when given an opportunity, I mean, he just worked 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:06.520 his butt off. How is it possible that all these 0:47:06.560 --> 0:47:10.360 groups of people and systems in place miss children like 0:47:10.400 --> 0:47:14.680 this over and over again? So yeah, she also recalled, 0:47:14.680 --> 0:47:17.280 by the way, when Colt was done with his community service, 0:47:17.360 --> 0:47:20.280 he biked back ten miles to this park where she worked, 0:47:20.360 --> 0:47:22.000 and he met her and it was like just kind 0:47:22.000 --> 0:47:24.319 of checking in. She remembers how, and I quote, he 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:26.520 was kind of shy, handed me three small bags and 0:47:26.600 --> 0:47:28.960 just said here. I told him we had a very 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:31.160 small budget for new plants, and he'd gone out and 0:47:31.280 --> 0:47:34.279 hand harvested seeds from local flowers that he thought would 0:47:34.320 --> 0:47:36.640 grow well in the park. I said, oh my god, 0:47:36.680 --> 0:47:39.040 thank you so much. And he's like, yeah, all right, 0:47:39.360 --> 0:47:41.200 turned around and said thank you for being so nice 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:43.440 to me. I was literally teary eyed. 0:47:43.560 --> 0:47:44.239 Oh my god. 0:47:44.440 --> 0:47:45.719 And I told you all that because I wanted you 0:47:45.719 --> 0:47:47.680 to keep that in mind as I keep calling him 0:47:47.680 --> 0:47:50.880 my man Clt. Right, he's tea, he's a teenage kid. 0:47:50.960 --> 0:47:52.920 He's on the run. And I know, yes, he's crashed 0:47:52.920 --> 0:47:55.640 a stolen seven hundred thousand dollars plan that he stole 0:47:55.680 --> 0:47:58.680 into the Bahamas, Right, but he made it to the Bahamas, right, 0:47:58.880 --> 0:48:01.880 I'm still on his side. Yeah, So next stop, Cuba. 0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:02.879 Do you think he makes it? 0:48:03.120 --> 0:48:05.080 Does he pull a tupac? No? 0:48:05.880 --> 0:48:08.120 After the plane crash is discovered, because remember he's sending 0:48:08.200 --> 0:48:11.280 up smoke signals. Basically, local authorities track down the stolen 0:48:11.320 --> 0:48:13.840 plane and they tell the US authorities, Oh, this is 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:16.440 one of yours. They tell the Bahamian authorities to hold 0:48:16.440 --> 0:48:19.239 the pilot, right, and they say, if you catch him, 0:48:19.320 --> 0:48:20.640 hold them. We'll be there as soon as we can 0:48:20.680 --> 0:48:23.040 get there. The locals they put up wanted posters of 0:48:23.080 --> 0:48:25.440 this kid, Colt Harris More because that's what the FEDS 0:48:25.440 --> 0:48:27.759 tell them. Yeah. Knowing that the heat is now on. 0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:29.960 When he sees one of his wanted posters, Colt does 0:48:30.000 --> 0:48:33.239 what he does best. He cuts and runs, don't hesitate. Run, 0:48:33.400 --> 0:48:36.359 So he steals another go fast boat and he takes 0:48:36.440 --> 0:48:38.440 off for Harbor Island, assuming this is one of the 0:48:38.480 --> 0:48:40.880 bigger islands in the Bahamas, assuming that'll be a bigger, 0:48:40.880 --> 0:48:43.279 better place for him to hide out. Okay, he makes it. 0:48:43.360 --> 0:48:45.800 He docks the boat, sneaks down to a luxury hotel 0:48:45.840 --> 0:48:47.480 to like hide out, let the coolick, you know, let 0:48:47.520 --> 0:48:50.360 the heat blow over, maybe find maybe it'll quick score somewhere. 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:50.680 Yeah. 0:48:50.680 --> 0:48:53.719 Instead, security guards spot him, They recognize, you know, belong here. 0:48:53.760 --> 0:48:56.080 They give chase. Colt tries to run, but at this 0:48:56.160 --> 0:48:58.799 point he's grabbed a gun somewhere, so he turns back, 0:48:58.840 --> 0:49:01.040 flashes a gun. The secure guards see that if they 0:49:01.080 --> 0:49:03.600 turn they run away. They go and they call the cops. Right, 0:49:03.640 --> 0:49:07.760 we're gonna need backup. Cops mobilize. Also local federal agents, 0:49:08.000 --> 0:49:11.879 also the military. Everybody on this Bahamian island are all 0:49:11.920 --> 0:49:14.880 searching for this kid, all of them armed right, hunting 0:49:14.920 --> 0:49:17.520 my man Colt. At this point is July eleventh, twenty ten. 0:49:17.960 --> 0:49:20.160 Colt is desperate to get to Cuba. So what does 0:49:20.200 --> 0:49:23.239 he do? Steals another go fast boat. This is his 0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:26.359 last chance. Yes, so he's get spotted though it gets 0:49:26.400 --> 0:49:28.200 like three point thirty in the morning. When he steals it. 0:49:28.360 --> 0:49:30.160 The cops they go and they rush and fire up 0:49:30.200 --> 0:49:32.839 their own boats. So now the chase is offat chase. 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:37.239 Colt leads them to the open ocean. He's gonna make 0:49:37.239 --> 0:49:39.680 a run for it, headed to Cuba. I man, he 0:49:39.719 --> 0:49:42.880 thinks that's Cuba, so then I hope it's not Dominican Republic. Anyway, 0:49:43.160 --> 0:49:45.759 He's on the open ocean, right, colt speedboat is way 0:49:45.840 --> 0:49:48.600 faster than the cops watercraft. In the dark of the night, 0:49:48.640 --> 0:49:51.279 they're on the ocean, racing to Cuba. Colt escapes the 0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.840 Bahamian cops, but his luck finally runs out in the 0:49:54.960 --> 0:49:58.920 dark of night, his speedboat slams into a sandbar. That's 0:49:58.960 --> 0:50:00.960 how the Bahamian cops able to catch up to him. 0:50:01.000 --> 0:50:03.080 And when this is where it gets wild, to make 0:50:03.080 --> 0:50:04.799 sure he can't escape again, what do they do. They 0:50:04.800 --> 0:50:06.879 pull out those guns and just start firing on them. 0:50:06.920 --> 0:50:10.120 Oh no, oh, yeah, they fire on the speedboat, but 0:50:10.160 --> 0:50:12.480 not at the kid. They shoot out the engines so 0:50:12.520 --> 0:50:15.080 that way he can't They they basically disabled the boat, 0:50:15.480 --> 0:50:18.840 so Cold is now captured, taken into custody the Behaming authorities. 0:50:18.840 --> 0:50:21.920 They parade their capture in a walk of shame on 0:50:22.000 --> 0:50:25.200 the island. Yeah, tropical purp walk right, Yeah, so the 0:50:25.239 --> 0:50:28.359 authorities they only have Cold on one solitary charge though 0:50:28.400 --> 0:50:31.279 failure to present his passport, So he gets fined three 0:50:31.360 --> 0:50:33.520 hundred dollars. And they're about to like let him go, 0:50:33.600 --> 0:50:35.759 and the US are like, you have to hold him. 0:50:35.800 --> 0:50:38.160 He will be right there. Take the two days. So 0:50:38.280 --> 0:50:40.239 they get there, they arrive, they take the kid into 0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:43.560 custody where he gets transported to Miami. The Americans they 0:50:43.560 --> 0:50:46.120 got plenty of charges, they got to got charge. Yeah, 0:50:46.160 --> 0:50:49.759 so they throw sixty seven felony charges at Colt that 0:50:49.760 --> 0:50:52.440 would have resulted in maybe twenty thirty years in federal prison. 0:50:52.600 --> 0:50:52.799 Yeah. 0:50:52.840 --> 0:50:54.600 Yeah. The total for all of his damage and the 0:50:54.640 --> 0:50:56.520 cost of the man hunt, they're saying was one point 0:50:56.520 --> 0:50:59.560 four million dollars. That's what he now owes in restitution 0:50:59.680 --> 0:51:02.000 to victims and to the state. Now, remember I told 0:51:02.040 --> 0:51:04.200 you he called his lawyer from his go fast vote 0:51:04.440 --> 0:51:07.640 to negotiate the sale of his life story to Hollywood. Yeah, 0:51:07.680 --> 0:51:10.200 well he was on something there. He sells his life 0:51:10.239 --> 0:51:14.040 rights to twentieth century Fox for exactly one point four 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.200 million dollars because he cannot profit from his crimes, but 0:51:17.239 --> 0:51:19.680 he can send it all into restitution. Sce gets exactly 0:51:19.719 --> 0:51:22.600 that in his trial. The cult's the lawyer he pleads 0:51:22.640 --> 0:51:24.719 for lniency. He's like, he's a kid. Look at him, right, 0:51:24.800 --> 0:51:27.480 They sight his upbringing, his home, his abusive parents, the 0:51:27.560 --> 0:51:30.160 bully against school. The judge and the jury. They listen 0:51:30.200 --> 0:51:32.319 to all this, right, and they feel bad, just like 0:51:32.360 --> 0:51:34.520 you and I do. From a man cult. The judge 0:51:34.520 --> 0:51:36.840 even says, and I quote, I think this case is 0:51:36.880 --> 0:51:39.880 a tragedy but also a triumph with the human spirit. 0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:43.600 I sympathized with the defendant for his terrible upbringing that 0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:46.200 he had. It was tragedy that he had to steal 0:51:46.200 --> 0:51:50.360 food to endure an alcoholic an abusive mother. But nevertheless, 0:51:50.400 --> 0:51:52.200 the sentence of six years and I wish him well. 0:51:52.600 --> 0:51:54.960 Six years boom yeah, just like that, he's sentenced for 0:51:54.960 --> 0:51:57.400 a few heads off to federal prison. He's since been released. 0:51:57.680 --> 0:51:59.960 Six years isn't bad considering what he was possible looking at. 0:52:00.080 --> 0:52:02.400 So there you go, Elizabeth, the story of the Barefoot 0:52:02.560 --> 0:52:07.560 Bandit or aka the Bigfoot Bandit. I prefer it. He's out, 0:52:07.160 --> 0:52:08.240 he got released. 0:52:08.400 --> 0:52:09.600 Wow, I hope he's doing well. 0:52:09.680 --> 0:52:11.880 What's a ridiculous takeaway there? You know? 0:52:12.000 --> 0:52:16.400 I think that like early childhood intervention is so key, yes, 0:52:16.480 --> 0:52:19.440 you know, and it's age zero, simple stuff that, like 0:52:20.080 --> 0:52:25.040 just the attention nutrition, you know, definitely, yes, that makes 0:52:25.080 --> 0:52:27.640 such a huge difference that you know, if a kid's hungry, 0:52:27.680 --> 0:52:29.319 they can't pay attention, and they're not. 0:52:29.360 --> 0:52:31.320 Their brain doesn't develop in the way it should. 0:52:31.640 --> 0:52:36.719 This kid like so smart and clever, you know, it's 0:52:36.760 --> 0:52:40.040 just what a waste, My god, it's your takeaway. 0:52:40.680 --> 0:52:43.880 I just related to him very much, like all the 0:52:43.920 --> 0:52:45.640 whole time, like I you know me, I love planes. 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:47.800 I would have always wanted to steal a plane. I 0:52:47.800 --> 0:52:50.400 think the only thing is that the difference is our 0:52:50.440 --> 0:52:53.239 relationship store a mother. The reason why would would have 0:52:53.320 --> 0:52:55.960 killed my mother? Yeah, and so I didn't do it 0:52:56.000 --> 0:52:58.799 for that reason, whereas he's like, you know, yeah, she's 0:52:58.840 --> 0:53:00.879 already taken care of that. I don't have to worry 0:53:00.920 --> 0:53:03.040 about that. So I think that's what it is. It's 0:53:03.080 --> 0:53:08.000 just like the the he couldn't be guilted or whatever, exchange, 0:53:08.000 --> 0:53:10.240 whatever it is that they kept me. But the bond 0:53:10.320 --> 0:53:12.399 between you know, a boy and his mother the only 0:53:12.400 --> 0:53:15.160 thing they kept me from doing more serious crimes. Yeah wow, yeah, 0:53:15.280 --> 0:53:17.239 So there you go. Thanks mom, I know, right, So 0:53:18.080 --> 0:53:20.399 thank your mother, call your grandmother and thank your mother. 0:53:20.760 --> 0:53:22.600 So you're in the mood for a talkback. I am 0:53:22.640 --> 0:53:30.040 after that one. D can you favor this one? Oh 0:53:30.160 --> 0:53:35.239 my god, I love get. 0:53:38.719 --> 0:53:42.719 I downloaded the iHeart app specifically to tell you, Elizabeth, 0:53:42.840 --> 0:53:46.480 how disappointed I am that the joke of you not 0:53:46.640 --> 0:53:53.120 watching TV is over. I don't like Scandal era Elizabeth. 0:53:53.360 --> 0:53:59.480 I giggled so hard at the jokes that you didn't 0:53:59.520 --> 0:54:03.319 watch any TV but somehow knew about all TV. I 0:54:03.440 --> 0:54:05.879 miss it, but still love you. Thanks for the show. 0:54:06.560 --> 0:54:09.839 Oh my god, I'm sorry to disappoint I really am, 0:54:09.920 --> 0:54:12.000 but I had to stand in my truth. 0:54:12.160 --> 0:54:13.920 I'll tell you this much. She doesn't listen to radio 0:54:15.080 --> 0:54:20.840 doesn't work well as always. 0:54:21.000 --> 0:54:21.120 Uh. 0:54:21.480 --> 0:54:24.239 You can find us online at Ridiculous Crime on your 0:54:24.280 --> 0:54:26.520 social media's and we have our website that we love. 0:54:26.600 --> 0:54:28.960 Go check it out ridiculous crime dot com. There you 0:54:29.000 --> 0:54:31.880 can give a you know, a review of you. You 0:54:31.960 --> 0:54:33.880 can tell us about you on the website, so go 0:54:33.920 --> 0:54:35.960 there and tell us about you. Also, if you'd like, 0:54:36.000 --> 0:54:38.600 you can go to the iHeart app, download it and 0:54:38.640 --> 0:54:40.359 you can leave us talk back again. You can tell 0:54:40.440 --> 0:54:42.040 us about you, or you can tell us about things 0:54:42.040 --> 0:54:43.279 you found, or you just tell us. 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:45.680 About joke disappointed you or Elizabeth. 0:54:46.920 --> 0:54:48.920 Also, you can always email us if you like a 0:54:49.000 --> 0:54:52.360 Ridiculous Crime at gmail dot com. Please type in dear 0:54:52.480 --> 0:54:56.440 producer d thanks for listening. We will catch you next time. 0:55:01.600 --> 0:55:05.080 Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zaren Burnett, 0:55:05.320 --> 0:55:08.360 produced and edited by the Harley Davidson Iron Wing to 0:55:08.480 --> 0:55:12.280 Our Colt Harris Moore, Mister Dave Houston, and starring Analys 0:55:12.400 --> 0:55:16.360 Rucker as Judith. Research is by amateur pilots Marissa Brown 0:55:16.440 --> 0:55:19.439 and Andrea Song Sharpened Tear. Our theme song is by 0:55:19.520 --> 0:55:23.000 Bad Boys of the Pacific Northwest Thomas Lee and Travis Dunton. 0:55:23.400 --> 0:55:26.879 The host wardrobe provided by Botany five hundred. Guest hair 0:55:26.920 --> 0:55:31.080 and makeup by Sparkleshot and mister Andrea Hotel. Accommodations provided 0:55:31.120 --> 0:55:35.040 by the Omni. Executive producers are Ben hot Meal, Bowlin 0:55:35.239 --> 0:55:37.799 and Nol Survival Knife, Brown. 0:55:42.880 --> 0:55:46.640 Dick, Why say It one more time? 0:55:47.080 --> 0:55:48.240 Geek We Cry. 0:55:49.360 --> 0:55:52.680 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio four more podcasts. 0:55:52.800 --> 0:55:56.000 My Heart Radio visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or 0:55:56.000 --> 0:55:57.800 wherever you listen to your favorite shows.