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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:56 AM Feb 2012

19 Years and £1 Million Later, a Past Catches Up

OZARK, Mo. — As she listened to the outlandish story pour out, slightly slurred, from her new husband’s mouth, Jessica King dismissed the tale of his family’s two-decade run from the law as the product of an overactive imagination and too many drinks.


The couple had been married two months, and now Lee King was telling her that his father, a balding local cable technician, was actually an international fugitive who had staged one of England’s most infamous bank heists.

A few weeks later, on Dec. 28, all doubts vanished. That night, she said her father-in-law appeared at the newlyweds’ home, grabbed her arm and, leaning in to fix his eyes on hers, warned her to keep quiet.

“I know you know,” she said he told her in his native British accent. “I will kill you. I will bloody kill you.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/us/british-robbery-suspect-edward-maher-arrested-in-missouri.html

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19 Years and £1 Million Later, a Past Catches Up (Original Post) n2doc Feb 2012 OP
Crime doesn't pay Bucky Feb 2012 #1
Wait...he won the lottery too? HipChick Feb 2012 #2
That was funny! Mimosa Feb 2012 #3

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
2. Wait...he won the lottery too?
Wed Feb 15, 2012, 08:52 AM
Feb 2012

and the police dept didn't have a phone plan to allow them to call overseas?

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