She worked her way up the ranks from a secretary to an administrator over the department of civil service making 57,000 dollars a year. He had been convicted of fraud and was to spend at least 15 years in prison. By answering his “looking for love personal” she would eventually share his distinction of being a convicted felon. I was first made aware of what this relationship had developed into by my school principal who knew the prisoner. The prisoner had been at our facility and moved to a prison in the north. It seemed the prison administration also had knowledge of their relationship. Her visiting him at our facility was restricted because of a misconduct the prisoner received for “inappropriate touching” her on one of many visits. The administration also knew how controlling and abusive this prisoner was towards her, and feared for her safety. What other steps they used to prevent her from visiting led her to invent a second identity with a validated license. She used this identity to visit him in his new location.
She used her new found skills to get him a fake identification as well. This was just the beginning of the spiral which would launch her into notoriety but not of the good kind. The question of why lingers like an emotional cut that will not heal. She obviously had some of those. Today she decided, from his abusive cajoling, that she would take helicopter flying lessons. The plan would be to fly a helicopter into the prison yard and remove her new found amour from his current predicament. Of course he explained to her that he was a political prisoner and took his fight to “the man- that being his only crime!” He was the proverbial “rebel for a cause. ” She loved the rebel and no matter how twisted the abuse became, she was determined to free him. They would live happily ever after she dreamed. She didn’t realize just how dangerous or delusional her rational had become. She even smuggled in, over one of her prolonged visits, a 22 caliber derringer with ammunition. He might have to use it to get to the yard where her helicopter would be waiting. They had a full proof plan. Anyone who stood in their way would have to be eliminated. God help them.
The day of reckoning was upon them. She had just enough flying experience to pilot a helicopter and believed it would not be a problem flying it into the prison yard for his escape She stole a helicopter as planned from a local small community airport and set her sites on the freeing of her boyfriend, soon to be lover. It was a perfect sunny, calm day, and she was feeling real confident, even giddy, at what she was getting ready to do. Flying low, so as not to be detected she thought, was her best plan. As she approached a lake she thought how beautiful it looked from her elevated position in the sky. It looked just like a mirror, and she began to loose her depth perception the further she flew over it. Loosing her altitude and confidence she crashed into the water shocked by what had just happened. The sheriff deputies who pulled her from the water knew the helicopter had been stolen and she was promptly arrested. They found a lot of money, 2 fake ID’s, and a 30 caliber automatic rifle with ammunition in the helicopter, and a sketch of her landing site inside of the prison. She also confessed to smuggling in a weapon for her boyfriend and he was quickly detained by the prison administration who found the gun. I filed this story under “what would you do for love.?” Unfortunately, in the prison these stories were not uncommon.
TO BE CONTINUED…..
Putin’s continue use of missiles against civilian areas in the Ukraine begs this question? The Ukraine gave up their Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in an agreement that Russia would honor their borders. Since Russia is not honoring that agreement and has invaded, isn’t it time to give them their missiles back? I am quite sure they will know how to use them. Slava Ukraini
MJ-Way 