The Stepbrothers, the Stolen Pickup, and the Nineteen Day Manhunt Across Six States of America
In June 1997, Iowa stepbrothers Jamie McMahan and Christopher Kauffman, driven by a methamphetamine habit and a craving for a green pickup, murdered two women who trusted them, Barbara Garber and Island Schultz, robbed a small town bank, and fled across six states in a nineteen day manhunt that ended in a Pensacola motel through patient hostage negotiation. They pleaded guilty to avoid the federal death penalty and received multiple life sentences, McMahan dying by suicide in prison in 2017 while Kauffman remains incarcerated, leaving a lasting lesson about addiction, misplaced trust…
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