The Fugitive Baker: How a Cherry Pie Ended a Runaway Thief
The Fugitive Baker: How a Cherry Pie Ended a Runaway Thief
A lattice-top cherry pie, still faintly warm, photographed in a church pantry became the single clue that led a Deputy U.S. Marshal to a twenty-six-year-old bookkeeper who spent sixteen months on the run baking at county fairs. Could a pie - entered under a false name and remembered by judges for its crust - be what finally closed a cross-state manhunt for two hundred and twelve thousand dollars in missing funds?
In this episode, we tell how the photo of a pie at First Methodist's annex in Pelham Crossing, Tennessee connected to a…
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