Inmate's Secret Life in Toys "R" Us

You won’t believe where an escaped inmate secretly built his second life for months.

After slipping out of a North Carolina prison, Jeffrey Manchester didn’t flee across

states or vanish into the woods—he walked straight into a Toys “R” Us and disappeared

inside the walls. Every night, after the store locked up, he crawled through

a hole he carved out and roamed freely. He rode bikes through empty aisles, watched employees

through baby monitors, lived on candy and baby food, and slept behind a fake wall he constructed

near the bikes. For months, he existed like a ghost no one could find.

But when the Christmas rush made his hideout too risky, he simply shifted next door to an