WEBVTT - Jeffrey Alan Manchester: The Roofman Cometh…AGAIN 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:07.560 Elizabeth Dunton. I got a question for you, sir. Do 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:11.440 you know what's ridiculous? What I do? 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:15.840 Beyonce? No, they're all going to come and get me. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:16.960 I'm coming out to get. 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.319 Let me finish my thought. So Beyonce, I don't know 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.639 if you heard. She had an album called Renaissance that 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.400 came out of this, and then she had another album 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:34.720 called Cowboy Carter and on both of them, apparently the 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:40.000 cover has the picture of a horse. Yeah, and so 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:47.760 do you know, Oh my god, anyway, do you know 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.280 the name of the horse on the Renaissance album? Steve Well, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:59.040 the fans the high they were calling it rene Renaissance 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:04.759 and then ny I g h okay. Well, so anyway, 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:10.880 Justina Omakua, who is the senior vice president at Parkwood Entertainment, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.600 Beyonce's production and management company, clarified, No, no, no, no, the 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:19.839 horse is named shardonay with any like at the end. Yeah, 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.920 it's it's a it's a tragedy. So Shardona is the 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.720 name of the buttery shard And that's ridiculous. But wait 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.039 there's more. Oh no, yeah, so people hear about this, like, oh, 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:37.520 that's cute. Like no, but I do have to tell you, 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:45.639 Bold refined Horsey. Now you can blame. You can blame 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.040 Michelle Zibadiba on Instagram and k Law on Instagram. They're 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.160 the ones, the first two through the gate who told 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.920 us about this. All right, Bold refined Horsey. What am 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.960 I talking about? Yes, I am talking about the fact 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:07.080 that Arby's released uh Horsey sauce, which apparently that's their life. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.600 I heard people reference these people. They're going on my list. 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.240 Yeah, put them on there with like Cheetos and all them. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:16.560 They have released a Horsey sauce that's infused with Shardonnay 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.880 wine and it's called Chardonnaise with the any Igh Horsey Sauce. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.840 And it's in this like frosted glass wine bottle, sixteen 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.400 dollars a bottle. It has. The package has a silhouette 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.640 of quote, a majestic horse in mid. 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.680 Gallop for a mayonnaise sauce. 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.240 I suppose, yeah. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.160 Its right. I'm assuming that's. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.040 A no because they got the idea from. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.240 From the I know, but I'm assuming it's a mayonnaise 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:42.920 space sauce. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:43.239 I don't know. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.400 I've never had Horsey sauce. What is it? Is it 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.000 like donkey sauce? Whatever? I've never been to an Arby 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.960 can I can? I admit that. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.240 Which could beat each other in a fight. Horsey sauce 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.840 or donkey sauce. Donkey I'm saying donkey sauce. 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.200 Every time, especially if Guy Fieri did a mashup between 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:04.639 donkey sauce and he brought in Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabbo tequila. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:11.560 Like anyway, So if you want some chardonnayse Arby's horse 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.960 Horsey sauce, which, oh, there's just a lot for me 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.240 to talk about, you have to go to the Arby's 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.400 website and sign up for their Arby's Club. I didn't 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.160 I was going to sign you up for Club Arby's, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.200 but I didn't know. I didn't do it. I didn't 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:31.200 do it. It's oh, it's a signature horse Radish sauce with a. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.000 It's a roast beef place, the. 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.520 Beef people, of course. Okay, anyway, so this has gone 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:39.200 on way too long. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.120 You know about them, right? They have the meats. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.760 Yeah, that's what they tell me. If I were to 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:44.360 watch TV and. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.440 I assume they also have the meat sweats. 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:49.280 Of course they do. Of course they. 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.280 That's daring, ridiculous. I know you know else is ridiculous. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.080 Tell me how about a guy who makes corporate practices 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.119 the basis for his outlandish crimes. Yeah, Elizabeth, this cat 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.040 he's a break in artist with a McDonald's problem. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.119 Oh mashup. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:30.720 No, this is ridiculous crime. A podcast about absurd and 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:36.080 outrageous capers, ice and cons. It's always ninety nine percent 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:42.800 murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous. Cheers, Elizabeth Jarh 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:44.320 November nineteen ninety eight. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:45.800 I remember it. 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:50.840 You do? You remember en times we had in November 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.560 nineteen ninety eight. It's so good. 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:55.120 Keep going. 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.680 Let me take you back the song do Wop That Thing? 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.720 By Lauren Hill? Yeah, number one on the Billboard charts. Yeah, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.880 you loved that song, sure, Aaron, Lauren Hill. Sure you 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.960 even wore your hair like hers and sister Act too Appropriation, which, 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.240 by the way, came out in nineteen ninety three, which 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.840 is just two years after your new favorite bank ribery film, 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.560 Point Break. Yes, did you know Point Break came out 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:19.480 in nineteen ninety one? 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.000 You're kidding me, sort of? I had no idea, right, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:22.680 and I've never heard that. 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.520 Yeah, you'll remember it later anyway. Also on the radio, 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.560 back in nineteen ninety eight, your man was holding it 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.640 down in the number forty spot on the Billboard chart. Man, 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.359 he's new to the charts. It's his first time in 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.359 such rarefied air. This was his first hit off of 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.880 his third album, but it won't be his last. In 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.520 ninety eight, it's his first big hit song. It's called 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.360 hard knock life ghetto anthem. That's right at your man. 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:48.800 Jay Z horse face as you call it. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.800 He's got a long nogging. What was going on at 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.560 the Cineplex Elizabeth in November of nineteen ninety eight. 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.480 November ninety eight, Yeah, I don't know. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.520 And by the way, if jay Z has horse face, 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.839 and so does Troy Aikman, So really I'm shooting a 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.200 lot over here. I'm wide shots anyway, November ninety eight 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.640 at the Cineplex. You remember movies, right, That's where the 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.360 group it was a group activity, was it. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:10.640 People? 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:12.320 They would go and they would sit in a darkened 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.839 room and they would stare at a blank screen. In 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.680 every twenty fourth of a second, a new image would 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.880 be projected onto the screen. Right, It was amazing. It's 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:22.880 this steady stream of images would be creating the simulation 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.440 of movement paired with sound. It was a very evocative 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.720 art form. Sadly it's been forgotten to history. Kids today 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.880 they see pictures of movie theaters from the nineties and 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:33.800 they will often mistake them for some sort of like 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.840 an ancient ritual space, like it was a cult. Perhaps, yeah, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.719 a church dedicated to snacks and cold drinks. Anyway, back 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.400 in November of nineteen ninety eight at the box office, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.240 can you guess what the number one movie was? 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:45.880 No? 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:47.440 The water Boy? 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.800 Oh goodness, it was such a bleak time nineties. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.760 Harder question. What was the third highest grossing film of 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.520 November nineteen ninety eight? 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.800 Was it another Adam sit where They're too? 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.159 No, but it was a movie that was part of 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.240 what you Love, which is two movies that come out 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.400 at the same time and people can't decide. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.039 Which one is an asteroid movie. 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.920 No, good guess though it was? It was an insect movie. 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.360 That's my Oh, bugs and ants? 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.440 Yes, which one a bugs? Life did better? 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:18.080 Okay? 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.760 Okay, okay. Last question of our cinema ninety eight pop quiz, 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:26.600 Keep going Elizabeth for the Grand Prize. I love pennies. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.239 Can you correctly name the number four highest grossing film 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:31.920 of November nineteen ninety eight. 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.560 Okay, so we've got water Boy and Bugs. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.720 Yes, I'll throw in here just to help you. 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:37.520 Oscar Bait. 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.080 Number two was the Rugrats movie. Just, oh my god, 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:41.160 throw that rounded? 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:43.600 Was it a film for grown up? 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.480 This was the first film for grown ups on our list. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.360 Okay, tell me who was in it? Tell me one 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:49.840 person who is oh man? 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.920 Okay, one person. I'm going to start from the bottom 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.800 of the list. This film had an amazing cast, right, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.240 and I'm just gonna listen to some people I liked 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:05.960 at the bottom of the Lisa Bonnet, Regina King, Jack Black, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.000 Jason Lee, the pro skater thing, Yes, skater, Jake Busey, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:18.800 son of the Busy, Scott Cohn, son of the con 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.760 So we got two sons of it's so rich with 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.520 nineties goodness. Do you want the top guys? You'll immediately 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.200 know the film if I say tell you the top 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.239 guys Will Smith and Gene Hackman. 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.040 Oh what's it called? 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.080 I love this film. I'll give you a hint. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.560 So's it's on the tip of my tongue. 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.640 Will Smith. At one point in the trailer he asked 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.760 Gene Hackman, what the hell is happening, and then Gene 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.160 Hackman says, I blow up the building, and Will Smith 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.920 is like why, and then Gene Hackman shouts back, because 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.040 you made a phone call. I jumped out of my seat. Elizabeth, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.120 give me the name Enemy of the State. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.040 That's right, Lisa bonet me. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.000 That was the college girlfriend for Will Smith. Gena King 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:02.800 was the White anyway, Elizabeth and a movie that launched 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.040 later a blank one eighty two album with a similar name. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.720 Oh that's Right of the State. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.600 Boom, Yeah, there it is. Wow, it's all coming together, 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:11.960 you guys. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.120 Nineties action films they hold so much. If Jerry Bruckheimer 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.400 produced it, I'm gonna watch it, right, I mean, come on, Elizabeth, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.880 Amy the State, right, I mean Enemy? This date is 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.280 great because it's this paranoid action thriller about how the 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.280 NSA is watching everything. It's like this post Watergate paranoid 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.200 thrillers of the seventies, but now it's like you know, 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.080 the Parallax few with the Warren Baby, right but now, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.000 which I also love that movie. But anyway, I love 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.200 paranoid thrillers. I think the point is that they're like 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.040 key holes in for like the moment in that time. Right. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.320 But anyway, if Tony Scott made it, I'm gonna watch 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.280 that one. Took True Romance, not a paranoid thriller. But 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.760 I love that Tony Scott film. Interesting anyway, it's another movie. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:52.559 I love them, just laying out movies I love. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.559 But besides, that's what today's show is about. Movies we love. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.920 November of nineteen ninety eight, jay Zy Hard Knock Life 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:03.079 Gene Hackman, An Enemy of the State. That was November ninetea, Elizabeth, 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.800 you remember it well, right, anyway, that's same November. That's 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.080 the time when today's perp first started getting busy. I 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:10.920 want you to be able to know the context in 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:11.319 which he was. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.239 Well, it's actually very important. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.559 I think it helps sometimes in this case it does matter. 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:17.959 So today, Elizabeth, I want to tell you the story 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.960 of the Roofman, Jeffrey Manchester. 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.960 The Roofman. What were we talking about yesterday? Oh, rack Man. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.240 There was like some business where they sell racks. It 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.840 looks like, yeah, saying it sounds like it sounds like 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.920 something that in like a hip hop song would be 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:35.840 the name of like a like a guy who sells 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.160 drugs on the corner to see the rack man, Like 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.160 I'm too old to know that. Yeah, and so Roofman 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.680 also sounds like that, like there's gonna be a whole 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.520 thing like forty talking about Roofman. I'm like, I don't know. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:48.280 Yeah, You're like I thought I brought my jeep there 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:49.400 and got a new roof rat. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.160 And then I'm like trying to act cool, like, yeah, 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.640 I got this from the roofman. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:55.800 Okay, lady, lady, it's not a local advertising thing. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:57.600 Like but jay Z told me say it. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.000 Well, we were recommended this story by a few rude dudes. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:02.760 Oh really Yeah. 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:07.960 Most recently Brandy This, a comic from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.200 suggested we do this one, and I just happened to 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.079 be reading up on him when she tweeted me about 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.040 this synchronous So I bump the Roofman right to the 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.880 top of the big board. Is I mean you said synchronicity, 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.920 I think of serendipity. It's happening. It's an idiot. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:22.880 It's all connected. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.920 Government named for this cat. Jeffrey Allen, Manchester, Jeffrey, Yeah, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.560 which makes him my second favorite. Jeffrey Allen. I've covered 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.239 Jeffrey Allen. Yes, Jeffrey Allen. Lash look him up anyway, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:36.959 this guy norcow guy. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:41.720 Elizabeth's jamming the Bay jam. So. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.679 He was born in Sacramento in seventy one. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:44.400 Good for him. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.400 You went to Rancho Cordova. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.520 High, Okay, second a kid, yeah right, you know. 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.320 Your man Hurtcane. He graduated, went on to enlist in 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.520 the army. He joins the eighty second Airborne. You know, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.840 the eighty second Airborne. 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:56.880 Thank you for your service. 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.480 Do you know about the airborne. That's the paratroope. 0:11:58.520 --> 0:11:59.080 You're in the sky. 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.160 They jump out of the planeanes thick, easy company and 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.440 band of brothers. Right. They parachute behind enemy lines with 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.120 a rifle and that's about it. Okay, right, there's they 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.160 can do on their own. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.559 They just parachute and then they don't do anything. That's 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:10.839 about it. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:17.240 That's it. The scarecrow. Now stand there. So paratrooper eighty 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.920 second Airborne jeff Manchester. He is trained in the military 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.520 arts of his particular task. And his task. He gets 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.080 really good at a repelling, so he's good with ropes, 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.920 climbing gear. He was also skilled at dropping to the 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.320 grounds from a great height. 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.040 Oh, I say I could do that. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:34.720 I know you can do that. But he gave it 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.400 from way higher than you and land it stick the 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.559 landing the hospital. Yeah, there's no hospital trips for him. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.440 No bruises like livers, none of that. No skilled camouflage 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.000 and evasion as well. Yeah really yeah, you. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.840 Like it's like the back of a g I Joe totally. 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.760 So tell you more about this cat so code name so. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.440 Like many who listen in the military, Jeff man Manchester, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.640 he got married young, right he was twenty? 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.040 Did he have a dodge charger dodge magnet so. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.640 By nineteen ninety nine, though, Jeff Manchester and his young family, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.800 they were living in Conquered, California, Conquered just over the 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.600 hill from here. He was stationed at the Naval Weapons 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.720 station there at Conquered And in November nineteen ninety nine, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.440 Jeff Manchester's wife said, Hey, I want a divorce. Oh 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:22.400 I'm out deuces. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.160 That's sad. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.200 Not really, it was good for her because the couple, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.720 the couple had a fight. I don't know exactly what happened, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.160 but you know, perhaps she discovered her husband's big secret 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.480 that he was an accomplished break in artist to spend 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.320 his nights burgling local businesses as the roofman. Or maybe 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.560 she's just like, I'm tired of your snoring. I don't 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.800 know what happened when something happened. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.560 So either way, she signed on for life. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.160 You know, got I feel you on that. But when 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.360 you're married to Rufman, that's a different question. So, by 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.080 the way, when you have the name Rufman, as you 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:52.920 can no doubt guess there's a story behind you. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.160 Yeah, oh really, yes. 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.640 Elizabeth, I'm gonna tell you that story. So Jeff Manchester 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.240 he earned his norm du crime for his work as 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.600 a regional tile distributor like a roofing tile. No, he 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.880 did not do that. It was his habit of breaking 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.800 into businesses through the roof and then stealing whatever cash 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:13.800 he could find. Yes, the Roofman was particularly fond of McDonald's. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.200 Starting back in November of nineteen ninety eight, a year 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.640 before he got divorced, he began a crime spreed that 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:27.080 stretched across the country. We're talking. He robbed spots in California, Nevada, Oregon, Massachusetts, Maryland, 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:32.080 North Carolina, Virginia, Minnesota right now. In California, he broke 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.760 into McDonald's restaurants in towns you know, places you've been to, 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.920 San Luis, Obispo, Sam Pedro down South up here. He 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:44.560 hit spots like Emeryville, Dublin, Pleasanton, Pleasant Hill, from Roseville 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.960 to Placerville, all around the Sacramento. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.480 County Whereville McDonald's is. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.000 I think you do too. So based on eyewitness accounts 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.120 of the roofman, the police gave this description of the perp. Right, 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.320 They're like, be on the lookout for this guy who's 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.840 probably between eighteen and thirty years old. He was sought 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:04.120 to anywhere between five seven and six foot three. That's 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.880 that's a hell of a ring exactly. He looked like 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.680 a roof To put that into perspective, the range five 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.440 seven to six foot three, that starts with like Mark 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:16.920 Hamill and Robin Williams and like Willem Dafoe, they're all 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.680 five foot seven actors. At six three, you got Chris 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:23.480 Hemsworth aka Funny Hammer Guy. Yeah, yeah, so he's six three. 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:25.360 So if you're looking for a guy somewhere between Robin 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.160 Williams and the guy who plays Thor. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.680 And you don't have your glasses on, and he's like 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.080 moving around and bend and you. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:37.200 May not know, possibly moving quick. Who knows? So this 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.120 cat roof man. The cops also pointed out a couple 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.560 other things. They said he had a prominent Adam's Apple. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.120 Wait, now hold on, you can you can't tell if 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:51.320 he's a little in but. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.280 People have noticed this. Yeah, it must be really pro 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.920 it's even it's even better Elizabeth. Also apparently he had 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:57.600 a pair of noticeably fold lips. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.080 What did he look like? Well, he had pillowy. 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:11.880 Lips, an apple, cozy bosom, and I quote he also 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:16.000 had extremely athletic build. It sounds like the copa roof 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.280 man if only I can swipe right on. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.040 Yeah, that's like their dating profile. He has to be 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.920 anywhere between five seven and sixth Street, but he must 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.800 have beautiful casts. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.400 Mike van Winkle from the California Department of Justice. He 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.080 said that the Roofman was and I quote, business like 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.880 and focused and very serious about what he does. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.840 You carry a briefcase, but many. 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:39.560 Of those he robbed have been struck by What a 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.480 nice decent guy. He seems to be a real gentleman. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.560 I really hope that the cost. I hope that they 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:47.720 find the roofman, because they seem really sprung. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:50.160 They have a future. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.600 Yeah, I mean, who knows, but I can see why 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.000 they love him. He's good. Right, As Van Winkle said, 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.280 it's human nature that when you find something that works, 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.880 you continue to do it. And he also added, and 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.400 I quote he knows that unlike banks, where you often 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:07.440 encounter silent alarms, video cameras and armed security guards, that's 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:10.639 not the case with fast food places. Like he's a 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:11.240 smart guy. 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:20.720 This guy his intellect if he's reinventing robbing seven months 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.800 free Jeff Manchester, he burgled forty restaurants, pulling a total 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:25.720 of one hundred grand. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:27.720 Right, but as good as the cops made him out 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.960 to be, Rufman did occasionally run into troubles. Like his 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.240 mo o was to start from the roof. He'd find 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.840 a McDonald's he liked the looks of. Then he would 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.640 grab up his bag of drills and hammers and axes. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.639 You get up there and repel up or whatever. Then 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:43.960 he'd chop into the roof and then he'd drill a hole. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:46.120 Sometimes he couldn't get in so right later on cops 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:48.800 would discover some like half drilled hole, a mess of 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.240 abandoned tools, right, And other times he didn't do enough research, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.359 so he'd get there he'd drill his hole. So when 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.080 he was in fulsome right Falls in California, he drilled 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:58.960 a hole in the roof, dropped in, but the restaurant 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.920 was closed. He's like, damn it, right. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:03.919 There was another place he was going in when it 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:04.280 was open. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.600 Yeah, he would go in late at night to rob them. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.480 So basically right at the end of the. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:09.840 Ship, when people were still in there. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.760 Yes, well the employees were still in the right time. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.280 You can't repel up, right, you can only repel down. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.600 You basically repelled down. Yeah, but I mean like you 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:18.480 can pull, you. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:24.520 Can climb on when you go up climbing, something. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.720 Telling you mountain climbing. That's why it's called climbing high. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:29.840 So other times he would cut a hole in the 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.480 wrong place and he'd wound up in like a tiny 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.560 spot behind a freezer. You know, it's just like stuck, Yeah, 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.920 a little Heidi hole. So in Plasterville, he almost got 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.480 caught when the police arrived on the scene. He was 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.880 still inside the McDonald's. So the cops spot Jeff Manchester 0:18:41.960 --> 0:18:44.959 inside and he spots the cops. So what did he do? 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:46.720 He jumps out of like I don't know, I imagine the 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.120 drive through window, and then he makes a run for it. 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.320 The local cops they give chase, right, but they haven't 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:52.920 had to do this kind of exercise in a while. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.200 So yeah, right, So the roof man when he makes 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.920 a run for it, remember he's got that real extreme 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:01.560 physically fit body, and he's like, a yeah, exactly, it's 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:02.720 got those amazing calves. 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:03.800 Have you seen the caves? 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:05.960 If he wore short shorts, I'm telling you, I had 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.960 to eat it up. So anyway, he runs down to 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.119 Highway fifty, right, because they're in. He runs down the 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.480 Highway fifty. He runs across the freeway, four lanes of 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:18.600 speed and traffic. He loses the cops on the other side. 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.000 They're like, I get paid enough for that, right, he 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.359 gets away. The reason why he's so successful for so 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.040 long was that he targeted teens who were working at 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.880 night under supervised totally. Because I remember, as I said, 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.200 this is the nineties, right, So the weak spot in 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.760 the American capitalism in the late nineties were all the 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.400 teenage assistant managers working at a McDonald's on a school night. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.880 Yeah right, like I'm not going to be a hero. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.000 No, totally. The roofman he droves a two foot by 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:43.920 two foot hole he drops into a fast food spot, 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.840 usually McDonald's. The employees would be like almost closing. They're 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:49.000 stunned by this guy's mask. He's got like a semi 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:52.880