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00:07Rockville is a maximum security facility.
00:11You've got a very tall fence with razor wire, rows and rows of razor wire.
00:18There are towers and there's a guard that's armed that drives around the perimeter.
00:28There's around about 1,200 inmates there.
00:31Whether it was because it was all women, they just didn't cause any problems.
00:44On August the 4th, 2008, an ordinary day, you just kind of wake up and everybody has their own routine.
00:56They run at least three visual body counts a day.
01:01You had to be on your bunk and show skin for the count.
01:10We got counted and then the count ran over. Not abnormal.
01:19And they counted us again.
01:23And that's when you, you know, you really start to think, what is going on that they can't count for?
01:29Where would somebody be?
01:31The count was bad. We had two bed counts to verify all the empty beds.
01:36At 4 o'clock, they had one missing. Very, very unusual.
01:43Try to verify where the offenders are, where they should be.
01:47The sergeants, the bigwigs, they come in, start counting, stomping around, huffy-puffy.
01:55They were mad.
01:56Go up to room I, check around the offenders' bed area and see if perhaps you might be hiding in
02:02a locker.
02:05And then about a half an hour goes by and you could just, like, hear the whispers across the dorm.
02:16We're unable to locate her on the facility grounds.
02:20Somebody said, Sarah's not in her bed.
02:24And I just got a little twinge of excitement in my stomach and I said, she did it.
02:35She got out of here.
02:38Sarah Pender just vanished.
02:41You know, we gotta get her back.
02:42She's already killed two people, who knows what she's gonna do next.
02:46Tonight, a convicted killer is on the loose.
02:49A woman escaped from the Rockville Correctional Facility.
02:52A Marion County jury convicted Sarah Pender in the year 2000 in a double murder.
02:57Along with her then-boyfriend, Richard Hall, she helped kill a man and a woman and then stashed their bodies
03:02in a dumpster.
03:03She has a Charles Manson-like ability to manipulate people when committing crimes.
03:09She looks like a sweet, little innocent girl.
03:13But within, there's a deep, evil demon.
03:28Hi.
03:29My name is Sarah Pender.
03:35okay women my name is sarah pender people have called me a minute people have called
03:41me all sorts of names they've said that i'm a manipulator that i'm psychologically i'm a
03:48psychopath stop looking at me this is gonna be it people call me
03:57pathological
04:11every inmate thinks about escaping prison especially when you have a lot of time
04:19i was sent to prison for 110 years for two murders that i did not commit
04:25i knew that i was going to die in prison
04:33and then one day
04:37i thought i bet i could get out of here
04:45i knew that i would need help
04:49even if i made it past the guards or through the fence i would need someone there to pick
04:55me up
04:57so i definitely needed a partner to help me out and then i found one
05:05once the gate was open
05:10i remember walking across the pavement and it being so hot
05:16i was so excited
05:19i was never going back
05:23this is what i've been waiting for so don't flake out now
05:33i remember looking and seeing cows in the pasture
05:38driving through small towns looking at all the buildings and small structures
05:45wondering what all those little people were doing in their little lives and how they had no idea what was
05:51happening
05:52i felt completely refreshed
05:55and i remember
05:57hitting the dashboard and just
06:00and i was like
06:01i was down in florida and i get a phone call
06:18and it was sarah
06:21and then it dawned on me well
06:23normally when she would call me from prison
06:26the operator comes on and that didn't come on and it was sarah's voice
06:30and i was like
06:32well where are you calling me from
06:35i'm on a cell phone
06:37and i'm on the road
06:41and that just
06:43threw me
06:45for a total loop
06:46i was standing there with my mouth open like
06:51did she just tell me she walked out of prison
06:58i'm living out on the west coast
07:00the phone rings and it's bonnie uh sarah's mom
07:04and sarah had uh had escaped and she was gone
07:12110 years that's what the judge sentenced sarah to
07:18sarah was was 21 when she was arrested
07:22she had uh her whole life in front of me
07:28growing up she's a joyful child
07:31her and her sister jennifer
07:33we were living in greenfield
07:35it's a small town east of indianapolis
07:39she was uh she was uh kind and considerate
07:45intelligent
07:48she just amazed me at how quickly that she just learned it was like she was two grades higher than
07:59what she was
08:02years later and uh you know now sarah graduated from high school and they got the news
08:08she would have been accepted at purdue it was a joyous time
08:15she went straight into biophysics biochemistry trigonometry and calculus
08:24i was lucky that my father was very interested in my education
08:29because he knew that education was one of the number one things that would help create success in life
08:43she hadn't even really got started in her life
08:47and now
08:49your daughters
08:50are on the run from the law
08:53yeah well how can this be
08:55it just doesn't make any sense
09:05i can't believe she's sitting next to me
09:07in this vehicle and we're driving away
09:13things were just right
09:16from movements that particular day
09:19to who was on the gate that day
09:25i met jamie in county jail
09:29what started as a sexual relationship
09:31became a deep friendship between us
09:34and now jamie had already been out of jail for quite some time
09:41she already had this free life that she was risking for me
09:45but i trusted that
09:47that she would be there whenever i got out
09:52one of the things that made me fall in love with jamie
09:56jamie was she was very defiant
10:00and i admired
10:01her guts
10:04jamie was down for anything
10:07she liked risks
10:09and she liked me
10:12you know what i'm gonna be perfectly honest with you
10:15i told her don't look back
10:17i loved her enough to let her go
10:20you want her to stay out free
10:21yeah i do
10:24you want her to be free forever
10:25yeah i do
10:29run sarah run
10:42now sarah pender is described as a white female
10:45five foot eight weighing about 200 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes
10:50police say they are tracking pender and she should be considered dangerous
10:55jamie dropped me off at the safe house and left to get me clean clothes and hair dye
11:04a new cell phone my money
11:08we are going to use every resource
11:10to hunt her down and find her
11:13there were a lot out physically looking
11:15the entire department corrections
11:18homeland security
11:20we didn't know what she was going to do
11:21it's concerning because we don't know where this woman is
11:25you know we don't know what she's capable of
11:28i live about seven miles south
11:30and there's woods all around there
11:33so that's that's always been a concern
11:36we didn't have any evidence of how she got out
11:40she didn't breach the parameter
11:43she didn't go over the fence or anything
11:46there's only one conclusion
11:48that she went out through a gate
11:51to do that she had to have an accomplice
11:53a correctional officer
11:55they reviewed a lot of tapes and
11:58they come up with a primary suspect
12:01scott spitler the correctional officer
12:03because he went out about the time that she had gotten out
12:09i know the spitler guy has to be the one that did it
12:15i said i want to see him
12:18i got him in the interview room
12:20i asked him if he would take a voice stress test
12:23and he said yes
12:25it's a lie detector of sorts
12:28i mean he was nervous
12:30he was stuttering
12:32guilt was pouring out of him
12:33and he failed it badly
12:37like real bad
12:38and finally he confessed
12:41he told us everything about how he helped her get out
12:50planning my escape took several months
12:54i knew that i would need money once i got out
12:57so i began to watch and pay attention
13:04consider and look for opportunities
13:09i identified scott spitler
13:12and i befriended him
13:15i would pay him to bring in contraband
13:19cell phones
13:20tobacco
13:21benadryl
13:23i sent the money that i made
13:26to my friend jamie
13:30jamie held the money aside
13:31so that i would have it whenever i got out
13:35and at this point
13:38scott saw an opportunity
13:39to make even more money
13:43because he knew how to get me out
13:45he asked me for $15,000
13:48in order for him to drive me to the parking lot
13:52and i agreed
13:55but as time went on
13:57scott wanted to have sex with me
14:01it's not like i have a choice
14:05and so
14:06i did what i had to do
14:12scott spitler told me about
14:14utilizing a van
14:15and went through the back gates
14:17and let her out up in the front parking lot
14:20where jamie
14:21a long time friend of sarah
14:24picked her up
14:26i saw scott as a means to an end
14:30before i got out of the van
14:31i said scott
14:33i love you
14:34and i will text you later
14:36and scott said you better
14:41she never called
14:44and i told her i said it looks pretty obvious to you
14:46you got took
14:49she had the ability to bring people into her
14:55i've never seen an inmate like that before
14:5841 year old scott spitler
15:00he is now in jail
15:01facing seven charges
15:03including assisting a criminal
15:04official misconduct
15:05and sexual misconduct
15:07i have no idea what he was thinking
15:09if he was manipulated
15:10she is
15:11should be considered dangerous
15:16when we got jamie's name out of spitler
15:19immediately we go to the visitation records
15:22we saw jamie long's name
15:25everywhere
15:28we looked to see how many times she had been there
15:31what her last visit was
15:34what her address was
15:37so we got an emergency response team
15:40to jamie's house
15:44so we had a very brief interview with jamie
15:47and she didn't give up any information
15:53looked at my phone
15:54jamie texted me
15:57an officer had talked to her
16:01she was afraid to come to the house
16:04because she didn't want to leave them to me
16:09i needed my money
16:12to move on
16:14i don't know what to do
16:15what do i do
16:15what do i do
16:18and you know
16:19we didn't waste any time
16:22and the commissioner
16:23called
16:23u.s marshals task force
16:28she was going to get caught
16:30and you're going to come back
16:33and nobody's going to care about you anymore
16:40sarah penner was the first inmate to ever escape from this prison
16:43and they hope she's the last
16:45over my three years working with u.s marshals
16:48i caught hundreds of murderers
16:50not dozens
16:52hundreds
16:53were professionals
16:57every 24 hours
16:59i'd get a phone call
17:00i was accustomed
17:02to getting the next bad guy
17:04or the next bad girl
17:07typically we catch them pretty quick
17:10department corrections
17:11they said that we had a female breakout
17:15it wasn't like
17:16oh this is an interesting case
17:19it means she escaped from prison
17:20i don't get that like emotional towards it
17:23it's just another fucking fugitive
17:25she was driven outside the gates
17:26by correctional officer scott spidler
17:28but also
17:29it wasn't that she robbed a bank
17:32she killed two people
17:33and put them in a dumpster
17:34she's a risk to the public
17:37would she kill again
17:39probably
17:40would she want to go back
17:42probably not
17:42it's a pretty high level danger situation
17:48there's no better thrill than the hunting of mankind
17:52you know the intellectual being who can think
17:54who's trying to outthink you
17:56is that thrilling?
17:57you better fucking believe it's thrilling
18:0729 year old sarah pender is still on the run
18:09after breaking out of the rockville correctional facility
18:12she's certainly a dangerous individual
18:13has the ability and the capability of killing
18:17the news came on
18:18and they said that
18:19sarah pender had escaped
18:21my heart
18:23sank
18:25the first time i met sarah
18:27was in the marion county jail
18:29she was coming in there for
18:31a double murder
18:33it's like i'm thinking some crazy looking lady's gonna come in
18:36and she came in and she was just
18:38a normal person
18:40she was young
18:42she was really nervous
18:43and i helped her
18:44you know get settled in
18:46she was like a daughter
18:51she's a good person
18:52that she didn't do anything
18:53that she's accused of
18:58she wouldn't hurt anybody
19:05she wouldn't hurt a fly
19:08no
19:12she called me
19:15i just knew in my heart that i had to help her
19:18whatever i could do i had to help her
19:23when i got into peggy's car
19:26i think that the first thing that she said to me was
19:29oh my god i can't believe you're out
19:34i knew that she would help me get the money from jamie
19:39to do whatever i needed to do
19:49when the department of corrections
19:51shared with me that jamie long had helped her
19:53you know that's a hell of a lead
19:57grab her gear
19:58my radios are tack best
20:00i needed me to talk to her
20:07jamie was more scared than i was
20:10so she decided to deliver the money
20:14undercover and at mcdonald's
20:18it was a risk
20:21but without that
20:23i knew that i was in trouble
20:28even though the police were on jamie's tail
20:31we had already committed
20:33that far
20:34so
20:36what's one more step
20:44i was hoping that
20:45the police had not connected peggy to me yet
20:48even if they were following jamie
20:52however
20:52i can't just be sitting in the back of peggy's car
20:59and so i climbed into her trunk
21:05i remember feeling jumper cables digging into my back
21:10and it was so hot and stuffy
21:14but it was what i had to do
21:18having that money
21:19it's essential to the rest of the plan
21:23i'm driving and i'm just looking out
21:25checking on my mirrors
21:26thinking oh my god
21:27you know are the police following me
21:29i could have went back to prison
21:32i was nervous
21:36told jamie that i'd meet her in the bathroom
21:38at a certain time
21:40i felt the car stop
21:44the engine shut off
21:46the door open
21:48and close
21:52i walked in and i looked all around you know
21:56scoping out the people that was in the restaurant
22:00i got to the bathroom
22:01i seen some feet underneath the stall
22:06and i said jamie
22:10she said yeah
22:13i said okay i'm peggy you know
22:15so i went in the next stall beside her and she handed me the money underneath the
22:19little partition wall there
22:24and then when i came out of the bathroom
22:26went up to the counter
22:28and then that's when i seen jamie
22:30come out of the bathroom and leave the mcdonald's
22:41jamie went home
22:44peggy got in the car
22:45and we backed out of the parking space
22:55so i took her to motel 8 on shadeland
23:04when i gave sarah the money i think she was a little bit disappointed
23:13jamie only gave me 350
23:15i was expecting about 3 500
23:22jamie was afraid to bring the full amount
23:26she was really worried about
23:28you know getting caught
23:31and now i just had to wait
23:34hoping that she would give me the rest of the money
23:38at a later date
23:42but my gut emotion was fear
23:45i knew that the possibility was there
23:49for her to be arrested
24:07i went straight to jamie's house
24:12and when she came to the door
24:14you could see that she was concerned
24:22identify myself with the u.s marshals
24:24she was um
24:26i had nothing to say
24:27basically out of the box
24:28she wasn't cooperative
24:30i was very open and honest with jamie
24:31hey jamie you know you're in trouble
24:33and you know you're gonna
24:34you know spitler is already arrested
24:36but it's gonna happen
24:37you know it's gonna happen
24:40but she told me she goes
24:43i don't know where she's at
24:44she's somewhere on the east side of annapolis
24:46i can call her for you
24:48did that surprise me
24:51it did but i was rolling with it
24:58the phone rang
25:01and it was jamie
25:03she answered
25:06i knew
25:07something was off immediately
25:14jamie sounded
25:16panicked
25:18she had a lot more to lose
25:20than i did
25:22now the conversation
25:23was not free-flowing
25:25jamie's like
25:26what's up sarah
25:27how you doing
25:30she said that she needed
25:32to meet me
25:32in the parking lot
25:33where she dropped me off
25:35i knew that she hadn't dropped me off
25:37in the parking lot
25:38so i told her
25:39okay well i'm already out at the farm
25:42and sarah was like
25:43well i'm waking up at the farmhouse
25:45it's nice to have breakfast
25:47with the farmer out in the country
25:49it was weird stuff
25:51right away i thought
25:51they're playing games
25:55i knew that either the police were there
25:58or they were listening in
26:01but then sarah hung up
26:05it was very quick
26:07my profile of her started
26:09forming that she's not stupid
26:10she's very smart
26:11and that she's controlling her communications now
26:14and she's not sloppy with this
26:15because this is going to be a challenge
26:19it was frustrating because
26:21you know jamie was still not cooperative
26:25so how do i get her to cooperate with me
26:27i want her to really grasp onto
26:29you know i'm fucked
26:32she had a husband with her inside
26:34a very old frail man
26:36his name was larry
26:38you could tell
26:39that he was on his last weeks of life
26:42and she was caring for him
26:44he had oxygen and medicines everywhere
26:45but
26:47that was good
26:49because
26:49i knew that she was his caregiver
26:54and i told him i said jamie we'll get charged
26:57understand that
26:59but i won't lock her up right now
27:00if you can get her to help me
27:04and he was nervous
27:05he was like
27:07yeah
27:08but she's not going to cooperate with you
27:09i said well you need to talk some fucking sense into her
27:11i mean she's your caregiver
27:13i mean you don't want to lose your caregiver do you
27:16he goes no
27:17and he cried
27:20and then jamie had a different tone with me
27:24she was very very scared
27:27she said follow me upstairs
27:30i went upstairs in her room and she gave me a shoebox
27:34and the shoebox had all the money in there
27:37that sarah wanted to get
27:41that was a huge thing to give to me
27:43because right away that kept
27:44you know we took off her means
27:46we got something she really needed
27:48i mean she was choked
27:53who's she going to turn to
27:54i mean now what
28:00deputy prosecutor larry sels
28:02once called sarah joe pender
28:04the female charles manson
28:06when i was in the hotel
28:08i changed phones
28:10i broke the old phone
28:11and uh started up the new
28:20i cut my hair
28:23significantly shorter
28:26and dyed it
28:28a darker color
28:31and that's when i started thinking about
28:34all the things that i wish i had done differently
28:40all the choices that i made that i regret
28:49once i went off to college
28:51i did not spend enough time
28:54on my studies
28:56and um my and so my grades suffered
29:01um i had i had failed enough to where i decided not to go back
29:10i felt ashamed
29:11that i could not complete college
29:14i did not have an excuse
29:16because i knew that i was smart enough
29:20but despite the fact
29:22i was academically talented
29:25i did not feel a great sense of self-worth from it
29:30my self-worth really came from
29:32making other people happy
29:35i think that started after my mom left
29:43when sarah was six
29:46roland and i sat there
29:47and tried to explain that i wasn't going to be there
29:51we were going to divorce
29:56i didn't have anything to offer him at the time
29:59and so i let him have the children
30:04until i could better myself
30:10sarah never got in trouble
30:12growing up
30:13but the
30:14i think it was difficult
30:16it was very difficult on her
30:18and there wasn't much of anything available
30:21in the way of any kind of support
30:24they didn't understand why i wasn't there
30:29my mother leaving created a sense of abandonment
30:36and so by the time i was 20
30:38i was afraid of being alone
30:42i wanted someone to be there to help me
30:46navigate life
30:47and also to love me
30:51that was certainly the case
30:53at the time that i met rick
30:58pender was serving time for a double murder in marion county back in 2000
31:02police came to believe that 22 year old richard hall
31:05was the likely murderer
31:07all eventually was sentenced to 90 years in prison
31:10investigators thought she was the brains behind the killing
31:20if i could go back from the very first time that i met sarah i would just leave
31:29i mean it cost me my family
31:31being with her
31:35so no yeah there's yeah i would definitely leave
31:41we could always play the what if game
31:44what if i would have turned left to set it to turn right
31:47you know i i could do that all day
31:51and beat myself up all day
31:58but i actually at one point in time i could say that i did love her
32:06what attracted me to sarah was her personality that she had
32:10she was fun she she had a good heart then i mean we
32:14we had a good relationship i guess i mean it was
32:18things kind of was a blur and happened so fast
32:24when i met rick
32:26he was both manly and sensitive
32:31rick put his arm around me
32:33and he said stick with me kid and i'll take care of you
32:36and it felt so good
32:45sarah told me
32:47well i have a boyfriend
32:51and i said oh
32:52i said where'd the boyfriend come from is he
32:56from purdue too and that and she goes
32:59no she told me his name was
33:01richard hall
33:05i said is he good to you
33:08she said yes mom
33:10and he loves me
33:12and he's my protector
33:16in the beginning
33:18rick told me that he
33:20worked at a carpet cleaning business
33:28it wasn't long after that that i found out
33:30that his real job was dealing drugs
33:34when she first met me she knew i was into the you know
33:38business in the drug business so it wasn't like a huge surprise to her
33:42you know i mean that's what we were out there doing
33:46was having a big old party
33:51i was very smitten and
33:55i felt like it was an adventure
34:05after a few weeks together
34:07rick told me that his friend drew and drew's girlfriend trish
34:12were traveling from nevada
34:17and needed a place to stay for a little while
34:22rick made it clear that the less that i knew
34:25the better off that i was
34:28they looked like any two normal hippie couple
34:35we found a house on south meikle street
34:38we all moved in together
34:41i had no frame of reference
34:43for what might happen
34:47all i knew is that i wanted to be loved
34:51and to stay in that that loving relationship
34:55i really had this vision that we would move to the suburbs
35:01and get a small house
35:04a picket fence a dog
35:06you know start living the american dream
35:08just like anyone else
35:12but it was like two different worlds
35:16i would party with rick on the weekends
35:18and then sober up on sunday
35:20and go to work on monday
35:24while i went to work at a construction company
35:27drew and rick would deal drugs
35:36we actually used to drive around
35:38in indianapolis and throughout noblesville
35:42and if you've ever seen a movie
35:44fair and loving las vegas with johnny death
35:47when they're carrying around
35:49a little suitcase full of drug
35:51you know a briefcase full of drugs
35:52that was us
35:54you know i used to tell people man
35:56we got uppers downers inner outers
35:58and all arounders
35:58whatever you want it's there
36:04i didn't get good vibes
36:07i thought okay they're they're dealing drugs
36:11it frightened me a little
36:15i just had this tremendous urge
36:21to put her in the car
36:23take off
36:26and you have that overwhelming feeling
36:30i need to get her out of here
36:32but it didn't turn out that way
36:40the victims a white man and woman
36:42were discovered last night
36:44in a dumpster behind the teamsters hall
36:46in the 800 block of south meridian
36:4825 year old andrew pataldi
36:50he and his girlfriend
36:5226 year old trisha nordman
36:54had been shot to death
36:56investigators knew to search their house
36:58on south michael street
37:00police think that's where the couple died
37:06two hours ago a u.s marshal led task force
37:09apprehended indiana's second most wanted suspect
37:12the alleged person who drove the getaway car
37:15bore a twice convicted killer
37:16may i mean anything you want to say
37:18about your situation
37:20did you drive sarah pender from prison
37:23the marshals arrested 42 year old jamie long
37:26in a charge of aiding an escape
37:29jamie knew the consequences
37:34that loyalty and obedience is is
37:36is mind-blowing it's bizarre
37:40but she was that madly in love with her
37:46i'm not the first person
37:47that says that sarah pender is a manipulator
37:51there's a common thing
37:52she gets people to do things that aren't normal
37:56she gets people to do things that land them in prison
38:07i need an intelligence
38:10there was one piece of evidence that was given to me very early on
38:13is they gave me the phone number
38:14of the phone that she had while she was in prison
38:19i got the cell phone records
38:21i saw the name peggy
38:24she was up there in the top 10
38:28peggy's address came back to house in indianapolis
38:37you know you lived in the neighborhood all your life
38:39you know your neighbors
38:42there was a strange truck parked down the street
38:50and then me and my daughter left
39:02me and my daughter pulled up at my sister's house
39:06the truck pulled up behind us
39:08into the driveway
39:09and then when i actually got out of the car
39:13i looked and i seen
39:16the street was full of cop cars
39:20and then the marshal
39:23they all had their guns out
39:27i was frightened
39:30i told my daughter to get in the house
39:33don't stop
39:34and they tried
39:35they yelled at her to help her stop
39:36and i told her no you get in the house
39:39you know why
39:41that's what they paid me to do
39:42you can't be a pussy and do this
39:46because you can't handle these people with the soft kid gloves
39:49you can't
39:51they said
39:52us marshal
39:53ryan harman
39:56he just
39:57portrayed himself to be
40:02just like a big bad guy
40:04like you know
40:06i'm gonna get your friend no matter what
40:10they went in and searched
40:13upstairs and downstairs
40:14looking for sarah
40:18they didn't look like they were too happy
40:20that they couldn't find her there
40:26they asked me
40:26if i knew where sarah pender was
40:32i was a nervous wreck
40:36because i didn't know
40:39i didn't know what to say or really do
40:44peggy was um
40:46a very wiry
40:48nervous
40:49oh shit
40:50kind of a person
40:55which was good
40:57just do what's right
41:03wow
41:03this brings up a lot of memories
41:05and she did
41:11i was laying on the bed
41:13and i was
41:14thinking
41:15that i had to get out of that
41:17motel room
41:20suddenly there was a knock on the door
41:24my heart dropped
41:25to the floor
41:27nobody would be knocking on the door
41:29i don't want to go back to prison
41:31i thought
41:34holy shit
41:36because
41:36i told you
41:36and
41:36we
41:37come
41:38and
41:38they
41:38and
42:04we
42:04we
42:04we
42:04we
42:05we
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