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00:07Rockville is a maximum security facility. You've got a very tall fence with razor wire, rows and
00:15rows of razor wire. There are towers and there's a guard that's armed that drives around the
00:27perimeter. There were around about 1,200 inmates there. Whether it was because it was all women, they
00:35just didn't cause any problems. On August the 4th, 2008, an ordinary day, you just kind of wake up and
00:51yet everybody has their own routine. They run at least three visual body counts a day. You had to be
01:02on
01:02your bunk and show skin for the count. We got counted and then the count ran over. Not abnormal.
01:19And they counted us again. And that's when you, you know, you really start to think what is going on
01:27that
01:27they can't count for where would somebody be? The count was bad. We had two bed counts to verify all
01:34the
01:34empty beds. At 4 o'clock, they had one missing. Very, very unusual. Trying to verify where the offenders are,
01:45where they shouldn't be. The sergeants, the bigwigs, they come in, start counting,
01:52stomping around, huffy puffy. They were mad. And then about a half an hour goes by and you could just,
02:09like, hear the whispers across the dorm.
02:16Unable to locate her on the facility grounds. Somebody 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. She got
02:35out of here.
02:38Sarah Pender just vanished. You know, we got to get her back. She's already killed two people. Who knows what
02:44she's going to do next? Tonight, a convicted killer is on the loose. A woman escaped from the Rockville
02:50Correctional Facility. A 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. She has a Charles Manson-like ability to manipulate people and committing crimes.
03:09She looks like a sweet little innocent girl. But within, there's a deep evil demon.
03:32okay, wait a minute.
03:36my name is sarah pender people have called me a minute people have called me all sorts of names
03:42they've said that i'm a manipulator that i'm psychologically i'm a psychopath
03:52stop looking at me this is going to 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
04:34and 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 me
04:55up
04:57so i definitely needed a partner to help me out and then i found one
05:06once the gate was open
05:09i remember walking across the pavement and it being so hot
05:16i was so excited i was never going back
05:33i remember looking and seeing cows in the pasture driving through small towns looking at all the
05:42buildings and small structures wondering what all those little people were doing in their little lives
05:49and how they had no idea what was happening
05:52i felt completely refreshed and i remember
05:56i remember hitting the dashboard and just
05:59bob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob bob and i was like
06:02i'm free
06:11i was down in florida and i get a phone call and it was sarah and then it dawned on
06:22me well
06:23normally when she would call me from prison the operator comes on and that didn't come on and
06:29was sarah's voice and i was like well where are you calling me from i'm on a cell phone and
06:38i'm on the road
06:41and that just threw me for a total loop i was standing there with my mouth open like did she
06:51just tell
06:52me she walked out of prison
06:58i'm living out on the west coast the phone rings and it's bonnie uh sarah's mom
07:05and sarah had uh had escaped and she was gone
07:12110 years that's what the judge sentenced sarah to
07:18she was was 21 when she was arrested she had the her whole life in front of
07:28growing up she's a joyful child her and her sister jennifer we were living in greenfield it's a small town
07:37east of indianapolis she was uh kind and considerate intelligent
07:49she just amazed me at and how quickly that she just learned it was like she was two grades
07:58higher than what she was
08:02years later and uh you know now sarah graduated from high school and they got the news we'd been
08:09accepted at purdue it was a joyous time
08:15she went straight into biophysics biochemistry trigonometry and calculus
08:25i was lucky that my father was very interested in my education because he knew that education
08:33was 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 your daughter's on the run from the law yeah well how can this be it just doesn't make
08:57any sense
09:05i can't believe she's sitting next to me in this vehicle and we're driving away
09:13things were just right from movements that particular day to who was on the gate that day
09:26i met jamie in county jail what started as a sexual relationship became a deep friendship between us
09:35and now jamie had already been out of jail for quite some time she already had this free life that
09:43she
09:43was risking for me but i trusted that that she would be there whenever i got out
09:52one of the things that made me fall in love with jamie was she was very defiant and i admired
10:01her guts
10:04her guts jamie was down for anything she liked risks and she liked me
10:12you know what i'm gonna be perfectly honest with you i told her don't look back
10:17i loved her enough to let her go you want her to stay out free yeah i do you want
10:24her to be free
10:25forever yeah i do run sarah run
10:42now sarah pender is described as a white female five foot eight weighing about 200 pounds with brown hair
10:48and blue eyes police say they are tracking pender and she should be considered dangerous jamie dropped
10:56me off at the safe house and left to get me clean clothes and hair dye a new cell phone
11:06my money
11:08we are going to use every resource to hunt her down and find her
11:17that's what she's going to do it's concerning because we don't know where this woman is you know
11:26we don't know what she's capable of i live about seven miles south and 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 she didn't breach the parameter she didn't go over the
11:44fence or anything there's only one conclusion that she went out through a gate to do that she had to
11:52have an accomplice a correctional officer they reviewed a lot of tapes and they come up with a primary
11:59suspect scott spitler the correctional officer because he went out about the time that she had gotten
12:08out i know the spitler guy has to be the one that did it i said i want to see
12:16him i got him in an
12:19interview room i asked him if he would take a voice stress test and he said yes it's a lie
12:26detector of
12:27sorts i mean he was nervous he's stuttering guilt was pouring out of him he failed it badly real bad
12:39and finally he confessed he 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 so i began to watch and pay attention consider
13:04and
13:06look for opportunities
13:09i identified scott spitler and i befriended him
13:15i would pay him to bring in contraband cell phones tobacco benadryl
13:23i sent the money that i made to my friend jamie jamie held the money aside so that i would
13:32have it
13:33whenever i got out and at this point scott saw an opportunity to make even more money
13:43because he knew how to get me out he asked me for fifteen thousand dollars
13:48in order for him to drive me to the parking lot and i agreed
13:55but as time went on scott wanted to have sex with me
14:01it's not like i have a choice
14:05and so you i did what i had to do
14:12scott spitler told me about utilizing a van and went through the back gates and let her out up in
14:19the
14:19front parking lot where jamie a long time friend of sarah picked her up
14:26i saw scott as a means to an end before i got out of the van i said scott
14:34i love you and i will text you later and scott said you better
14:41she never called and i told her i said it looks pretty obvious to you you got took
14:49she had the ability to bring people into her
14:55i've never seen an inmate like that before 41 year old scott spitler he is now in jail facing seven
15:02charges including assisting a criminal official misconduct and sexual misconduct i have no idea
15:08what he was thinking if he was manipulated she is should be considered dangerous
15:17when we got jamie's name out of spitler immediately we go to the visitation records
15:23we saw that jamie long's name everywhere
15:28we looked to see how many times she had been there what her last visit was what her address was
15:36so we got an emergency response team to jamie's house
15:44so we had a very brief interview with jamie and she didn't give up any information
15:53looked at my phone jamie texted me an officer had talked to her she was afraid to come to the
16:04house
16:04because she didn't want to leave them to me i needed my money
16:12to move on i don't know what to do what do i do what do i do
16:18and and you know we didn't waste any time and the commissioner called u.s marshals task force
16:28she was going to get caught and you're going to come back and nobody's going to care about you anymore
16:40sarah penner was the first inmate to ever escape from this prison and they hope she's the last over
16:46my three years working with us marshals i caught hundreds of murderers not dozens hundreds were professionals
16:57every 24 hours i'd get a phone call i was accustomed to getting the next bad guy or the next
17:05bad girl
17:05the other one uh typically we catch them pretty quick department corrections they said that we had a female breakout
17:15it wasn't like oh this is an interesting case you mean she escaped from prison i i don't get that
17:22like
17:22emotional towards it it's just another fugitive she was driven outside the gates by correctional officer
17:27shot but also it wasn't that she robbed a bank she killed two people and put them in a dumpster
17:34she's a risk to the public
17:37would she kill again probably would she want to go back probably not it's a pretty high level danger situation
17:48there's no better thrill than the hunting of mankind you know the intellectual being who can think
17:54who's trying to outthink you is that thrilling you better believe it's thrilling
18:0649 year old sarah pender is still on the run after breaking out of the rockville correctional facility
18:12she's certainly a dangerous individual uh has the ability and the capability of killing
18:17the news came on and they said that sarah pender had escaped my heart sank the first time i met
18:26sarah
18:27was in the marion county jail she was coming in there for a double murder so i'm thinking some crazy
18:35looking lady's gonna come in and she came in and she was just a normal person she was young
18:42she was really nervous and i helped her you know get settled in she was like a daughter
18:51she's a good person that she didn't do anything that she's accused of
18:58she wouldn't hurt anybody
19:05she wouldn't hurt a fly
19:12no she called me i just knew in my heart that i had to help her whatever i could do
19:20i had to help her
19:23when i got into peggy's car i think that the first thing that she said to me was oh my
19:29god i can't
19:31believe you're out i 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 will share with me that jamie long had helped her
19:53you know that's a hell of a lead
19:56grab her gear our radios our tech bath i needed me to talk to her
20:07jamie was more scared than i was so she decided to deliver the money undercover and a mcdonald's
20:19help her to help her to help her to help her to help her to help her to help her
20:20to help her
20:21but without that i knew that i was in trouble
20:28even though the police were on jamie's tail
20:32we had already committed that far so what's one more step
20:44i was hoping that the police had not connected peggy to me yet even if they were following jamie
20:53however i can't just be sitting in the back of peggy's car
20:59and so i climbed into her trunk
21:06i remember feeling jumper cables digging into my back and it was so hot and stuffy but it was
21:15what i had to do
21:18having that money is essential to the rest of the plan
21:23i'm driving and i'm just looking you know checking on my mirrors thinking oh my god
21:27or you know are the police following me i could have went back to prison i was nervous
21:36told jamie that i'd meet her in the bathroom at a certain time
21:42i felt the car stop the engine shut off the door open and 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 i seen some feet underneath the stall
22:06and i said jamie
22:10she said yeah i said okay i'm peggy you know so i went in the next stall beside her and
22:17she handed me the money underneath the little partition wall there
22:24and then when i came out of the bathroom went up to the counter
22:28and then that's when i seen jamie come out of the bathroom and leave the mcdonald's
22:53so i took her to motel 8 on shadeland
22:59i took her to motel 8 on shadeland
23:04i think she was a little bit disappointed
23:13jamie only gave me 350 dollars
23:17i was expecting about 3 500
23:22jamie was afraid to bring the full amount
23:26she was really worried about you know getting caught
23:32and now i just had to wait hoping that she would give me the rest of the money at a
23:39later date
23:42but my gut emotion was fear
23:45i knew that the possibility was there for her to be arrested
24:06i went straight to jamie's house
24:12and when she came to the door you could see that she was concerned
24:22identify myself with the u.s marshals
24:24she was um i had nothing to say basically out of the box she wasn't cooperative
24:30i was very open and honest with jamie hey jamie you know you're in trouble
24:33and you know you're gonna you know spitler is already arrested but it's gonna happen you know it's
24:37gonna happen but she told me she goes i don't know where she's at she's somewhere on the east side
24:45of
24:45annapolis i can call her for you that surprised me it did but i was rolling with it
24:58the phone rang and it was jamie
25:03she answered i knew something was off immediately
25:13jamie sounded panicked she had a lot more to lose than i did
25:22now the conversation was not free-flowing jamie's like what's up sarah how you doing
25:30she said that she needed to meet me in the parking lot where she dropped me off
25:35i knew that she hadn't dropped me off in the parking lot so i told her
25:39okay well i'm already out at the farm and sarah was like well i'm waking up at the farmhouse it's
25:46nice to have breakfast with the farmer out in the country it was weird stuff right away i thought
25:51they're playing games i knew that either the police were there or they were listening in
26:01but then sarah hung up
26:05it was very quick my profile of her started forming like that she's not stupid she's very smart
26:11and that she's controlling her communications now and she's not sloppy with this because this is going
26:16to be a challenge it was frustrating because you know jamie here was still not cooperative
26:25so how do i get her to cooperate with me i want her to really grasp onto you know i'm
26:30fucked she had a husband with her inside a very old frail man his name was larry
26:38you could tell that he was on his last weeks of life and she was caring for him he had
26:44oxygen and
26:45medicines everywhere but um that was good because i knew that she was his caregiver
26:54and i told him i said jamie will get charged understand that but i won't lock her up right
27:00now if you can get her to help me and he was nervous he was like yeah but she's not
27:08going to
27:09cooperate with you i said well you need to talk some sense into her i mean she's your caregiver i
27:13mean
27:13you don't want to lose your caregiver do you he goes no and he cried and then jamie had a
27:21different tone
27:22with me she was very very scared she said follow me upstairs i went upstairs in her room and she
27:32gave
27:32me a shoe box and the shoe box had all the money in there that sarah wanted to get
27:41that was a huge thing to give to me because right away that took you know we took off her
27:45means we got
27:47something that she really needed i mean she was choked who's she going to turn to i mean now what
28:00deputy prosecutor larry sells once called sarah joe pender the female charles manson when i was in
28:07the hotel i changed phones i broke the old phone and uh started up the new
28:20i cut my hair significantly shorter and dyed it a darker color
28:31and that's when i started thinking about all the things that i wish i had done differently
28:40all the choices that i made that i regret
28:55that i could not complete college i did not have an excuse
29:17because i knew that i was smart enough but despite the fact i was academically talented
29:25i did not feel a great sense of self-worth from it
29:30my self-worth really came from making other people happy
29:35i think that started after my mom left
29:43when sarah was six roland and i sat there and 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 and so i let him have the children
30:04the children until i could better myself
30:10sarah never got in trouble growing up but the i think it was difficult it was very difficult
30:17on her um and there wasn't much of anything available in the way of any kind of support
30:23they 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 i was afraid of being alone i wanted someone to be there
30:45to help me
30:46navigate life and also to love me
30:51that was certainly the case at the time that i met rick
30:58pender was serving time for a double murder in merriam county back in 2000. police came to believe
31:03that 22 year old richard hall was the likely murderer all eventually was sentenced to 90 years
31:09in prison investigators thought she was the brains behind the killing
31:20if i could go back for the very first time that i met sarah i would just leave
31:29i mean it cost me my family being with her
31:35so no yeah there's yeah i would definitely leave
31:41we could always play the what if game what if i would have turned left instead of turning right
31:47you know i i could do that all day and 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 things kind of was a blur and happened so
32:22fast
32:24when i met rick he was both manly and sensitive rick put his arm around me
32:33and he said stick with me kid and i'll take care of you and it felt so good
32:45sarah told me well i have a boyfriend and i said oh i said where'd the boyfriend come from is
32:56he
32:56from purdue too and that and she goes no she told me his name was richard hall
33:05i said is he good to you she said yes mom and he loves me and he's my protector
33:17in the beginning rick told me that he worked at a carpet cleaning business
33:28it wasn't long after that that i found out that his real job was dealing drugs
33:34when she first met me she knew i was into the you know business in the drug business so it
33:40wasn't
33:40like a huge surprise to her you know i mean that's what we were out there doing was having a
33:47big old party
33:50i was very smitten and i felt like it was an adventure
34:05after a few weeks together rick told me that his friend drew and drew's girlfriend trish were
34:14traveling from nevada and needed a place to stay for a little while
34:22rick made it clear that the less that i knew the better off that i was
34:28they looked like any two normal hippie couple
34:35we found a house on south meikle street we all moved in together
34:41i had no frame of reference for what might happen
34:47all i knew is that i wanted to be loved and to stay in that that loving relationship
34:57i really had this vision that we would move to the suburbs and get a small house a picket fence
35:05a dog you know start living the american dream just like anyone else
35:12but it was like two different worlds
35:16i would party with rick on the weekends and then sober up on sunday and go to work on monday
35:23while i went to work at a construction company drew and rick would deal drugs
35:36we actually used to drive around indianapolis and throughout noblesville and if you've ever seen a
35:44movie fair and loving las vegas with johnny death when they're carrying around a little suitcase full
35:50of drug you know a briefcase full of drugs that was us you know i used to tell people man
35:56we got uppers
35:57downers inner outers and all arounders whatever you want it's there
36:00you know i didn't get good vibes i thought okay they're they're dealing drugs it frightened me a little
36:15i just had this tremendous urge to put her in the car take off
36:26and you have that overwhelming feeling i need to get her out of here but it didn't turn out that
36:35way
36:40the victims a white man and woman were discovered last night in a dumpster behind the teamsters hall
36:46in the 800 block of south meridian 25 year old andrew pataldi he and his girlfriend 26 year
36:53old trisha nordman had been shot to death investigators knew to search their house on
36:59south michael street police think that's where the couple died
37:06two hours ago a u.s marshal led task force apprehended indiana's second most wanted suspect
37:12the alleged person who drove the getaway car bore a twice convicted killer ma'am anything you want to
37:17say about your situation did you drive sarah pender from prison the marshals arrested 42 year old jamie long
37:26on a charge of aiding an escape jamie knew the consequences
37:34that loyalty and obedience is is is mind-blowing it's bizarre but she was that madly in love with her
37:46i'm not the first person who says that sarah pender is a manipulator
37:51there's a common theme she gets people to do things that aren't normal
37:56she gets people to do things that land them in prison
38:07i needed intelligence there was one piece of evidence that was given to me very early on is
38:13they gave me the phone number of the phone that she had while she was in prison
38:19i got the cell phone records i saw the name peggy she was up there in the top ten
38:28peggy's address came back to the house in indianapolis
38:37you know you lived in the neighborhood all your life you know your neighbors
38:42there was a strange truck parked down the street
38:50and then me and my daughter left
38:54and i noticed that truck was following us
39:03me and my daughter pulled up at my sister's house the truck pulled up behind us in the driveway
39:09and then when i actually got out of the car i looked and i seen the street was full of
39:17cop cars
39:19and then the marshal
39:23they all had their guns out
39:27i was frightened
39:30i told my daughter to get in the house
39:32don't stop
39:34and they tried they yelled at her to stop and i told her no you get in the house
39:39you know why that's what they paid me to do you can't be a pussy and do this
39:46because you can't handle these people with the soft kid gloves you can't
39:51u.s marshal ryan harman
39:56he just portrayed himself to be
40:02just like a big bad guy like you know i'm gonna get your friend no matter what
40:11they went in and searched upstairs and downstairs looking for sarah
40:18they didn't look like they were too happy that that they couldn't find her there
40:26they asked me if i knew where sarah pander was
40:32i was a nervous wreck
40:36because i didn't know
40:39i didn't know what to say or really do
40:43peggy was a
40:46very very wiry nervous oh shit kind of a person
40:56which was good just do what's right
41:03wow this brings up a lot of memories
41:06and she did
41:10i was laying on the bed
41:13and i was thinking that i had to get out of that motel room
41:20suddenly there was a knock on the door
41:24my heart dropped to the floor nobody would be knocking on the door i don't want to go back to
41:30prison
41:33i thought holy
42:03holy
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