April 3, 2025

Lynette Barnett and Tina Gonzales | Hybristophilia #2

Show Notes
Transcript

In this episode of Bloody Angola, Jim brings you inside the relationship between prison guard Lynette Barnett and convicted murderer Terry Banks, which culminated in their escape from Crossroads Correctional Center in 1999. Jim also brings you the shocking story of correctional Officer Tina Gonzales who was caught in the midst of a sexual relationship with an inmate witnessed by 11 other inmates.
“Hybristophilia” is defined as a condition that involves “a sexual attraction to individuals who commit crimes.

Timestamps
04:14 Lynette's Troubled Marriage
05:20 Meeting Terry Banks
10:12 The Escape Plan
15:13 The Escape
17:27 On the Run
19:54 The Search Intensifies
23:01 The Arrest
24:07 Aftermath and Sentencing
25:33 A New Story: Tina Gonzalez

Sources:

Stearns, Matt. “Killer escapes prison.” The Kansas City Star. 30 Oct 1999.
Kennedy, Nicole; and Scherer, Ray. “Guard linked to break.” St. Joseph News-Press. 31 Oct 1999.
Riley, Claudette. “Escapee, guard are sought.” The Springfield News-Leader. 31 Oct 1999.
Associated Press. “Officials seeking escaped…” Lake Sun Leader. 01 Nov 1999.
Associated Press. “Search continues.” The Kansas City Star. 02 Nov 1999.
Faubion, Scott. “Escaped inmate, guard…” The Cameron Citizen Observer. 04 Nov 1999.
Stearns, Matt. “After weeks, questions…” The Kansas City Star. 10 Dec 1999.
Stearns, Matt. “Police locate truck.” The Kansas City Star. 11 Dec 1999.
Stearns, Matt. “Authorities fear prison…” The Kansas City Star. 12 Dec 1999.
Faubion, Scott. “America’s Most Wanted…” The Cameron Citizen Observer. 16 Dec 1999.
Staff Writer. “Runaway Con, Guard…” CBS News. 18 Dec 1999.
Associated Press. “Murderer, guard captured.” St. Joseph News-Press. 19 Dec 1999.
Faubion, Scott; and Stark, Jerry. “Escaped inmate, prison…” The Cameron Citizen Observer. 23 Dec 1999.
Associated Press. “Court appearance set…”...

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angla, a podcast

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one hundred and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman, and

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today I'm bringing you another episode from the High Bristophilia

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series and the subject of today's episode is Lynette Barnett, who,

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on August twenty ninth of nineteen ninety nine, while I

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employed as a prison guard at Crossroads Correctional Center, not

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only assisted in the escape, but went on the run

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with a convicted murderer by the name of Terry Banks.

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So that's what we're going to be talking about today.

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Let's get right into it, and I'm going to give

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you a little bit of background on Lynette Barnette. She

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was twenty eight years old when everything I'm about to

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tell you about went down, and she had kind of

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a different path than most early on in life. She

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met her husband, David, when she was sixteen years old

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and working at a grocery store as a cashier. And

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at that time David, he was working in the produce

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department of that same store. He was five years older

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than Lynette at twenty one years old, and as I said,

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she was sixteen at the time, and they fell in

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love just a year later at seventeen. So David was

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pretty controlling of Lynette after they married, and Lynette wanted

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to return to school and graduate, but David was worried

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she would meet someone else and he just wouldn't let

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her do it. So she decided to get her ged instead,

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and that's just what she did, and it's kind of

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off with life. David gets a job as a case

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worker at what was known as Western Missouri Correctional Center,

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and Lynette, she worked several different jobs. She's trying to

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find her footing in life, right, She's much younger than David,

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So she takes a job at a shoe factory. She

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becomes a nursing aide and a nursing home and eventually

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a job opportunity comes up at Crossroad Correctional Facility as

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a correctional officer Now, this job intrigued Lynette. She thought

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it would help strengthen her marriage because of her husban David,

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as well as her father in law, both worked in

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corrections and her employment was close in proximity to David's.

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Crossroad Correctional Center and Western Missouri Correctional Center were actually

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just next door to each other. So she certainly thought

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this new job would help. But the marriage stayed bad

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for these two, and it really was bad the whole time. Lynette,

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as a matter of fact, leaves the marriage several times

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throughout the ten years that were married, but each time

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her husband would say he was going to change, et cetera,

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and she would go back to him. However, in nineteen

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ninety nine, the relationship reached a breaking point when Lynette

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caught David cheating on her and she left the marriage. Now,

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for the record, David, he denies any cheating allegations, and

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he claims it was Lynette who was the one that

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was controlling. But she there's a lot of family that

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backs up her claim. And so it's the single life

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for Lynette, and life at this time was really bad

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for her. She ended up moving in to her mother's

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boyfriend's home, she was sleeping in a plane utility basement

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and stopped making her car payments all together. She was struggling,

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and it's at this point in her life she starts

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kind of opening up on her relationship while working at

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the correctional center, and specifically to a particular inmate by

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the name of Terry Banks. So let's talk about Terry

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real quick. He had a pretty rough childhood himself. His dad, Charlie,

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was in and out of jail constantly, and they moved.

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Around a lot.

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In nineteen ninety two, they landed in Joplin, Missouri, where

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Terry's brother lived, and it was at this point that Terry,

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who was nineteen, fell for a seventeen year old by

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the name of Sheena Eastburn. Now Sheena, although young, had

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already been married and divorced, and this girl totally hated

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her ex husband, who she described as a drug dealing loser,

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and she made claims to Terry that he had also

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raped her, and Terry, along with Sheena and their friend

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Tim Eastburn, her ex husband, So they go to his

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home inside a trailer park and Sheena goes into the home,

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and she's acting like she wants to reconcile with her

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ex husband Tim. Right, she gets him by the window

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where Terry fires a single shot through that window and

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takes down Tim Eastburn. So Terry and his friend Matt,

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they then go inside of the home and they steal

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everything they thought was of value, and on the way

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out Matt myers. He notices Tim move and appears.

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To be breathing.

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He's not dead yet, so Matt fires another shot directly

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into Tim's head and kills him. Police investigate. They talk

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to the ex wife, as you would imagine, that's the

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first person they wanted to talk to, and as you

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would expect, she gives up both Matt and Terry and

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tells police of this plan.

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So they go speak to Matt.

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Matt says the same story, and they wanted to pretty

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much nail Terry in Sheena more than Matt, so in

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exchange for a lesser charge. When it's all sudden done,

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Sheena and Terry get life in prison and Matt gets

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sixty seven years with a parole chance because he agreed

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to testify against the other two. And that was in

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nineteen ninety two. So back to nineteen ninety nine. Lynette,

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as I told you, she's in a really bad spot

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in life. She's struggling financially, she just got a divorce,

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and she's confiding in this inmate who she's pretty sure

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is into her. He flirts with her constantly. And Terry

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worked in the food warehouse of this prison and Lynette

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that's where she was assigned to guards, so they would

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see each other every single day. Well, one day, after

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talking back and forth and her confiding in him, and

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him being kind of the shoulder to cry on, Terry

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goes for it. He pulls her behind a stack of

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boxes where no one would see and kisses her, and

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she reciprocates, And so it begins with these two. And

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quite honestly, Terry caught Lynette at a weak time in

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her life. She was dawn, and she was susceptible to

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a male figure coming in and trying to be the

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strong person for her, even if it was an inmate. Right,

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that's all they got is time to do in prison,

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and their whole goal is to try and con people.

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To them, that's what it's all about. It is just

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a game to them, and she played right into Terry's game. Now,

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this prison, it's a pretty big prison. There are a

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lot of places you can get lost in there. You

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can get in a corner where the cameras can't see you,

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and you can have some time with someone pretty easily,

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and they would take advantage of that. In her as

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a correctional officer, she knew where those dead spots, if

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you will, in that prison were, and they would have sex,

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they would do all kinds of things in these dead spots.

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She was absolutely infatuated with Terry. And this continued for months.

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And as I've told you in the past, it's present

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and inmates are the nosiest people in the world, and

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it didn't take long before they noticed something was not

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right with these two. They got so bold, y'all. They

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would hold hands at some points away from cameras and

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sometimes in front of the cameras, and the inmates would

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see them, so they knew something was up. And as

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you would imagine, about two months in the rumors start

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circulating and Terry starts telling Lynette that they need to

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hatch a plan to get him out of there before

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the relationship is discovered. Now, when he's talking to her

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about this, he's saying, I don't want this relationship to end.

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The only way that we can be together is if

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you can break me out of here. Look, this guy

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is just looking for his freedom, but that was his

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story to her. He's playing on her heartstrings and all

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those sorts of things, and they start hatching a plan.

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So on October twenty ninth of nineteen ninety nine, Lynnette

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takes her prison issue badge to a place called the

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printing Center and she tells the clerks that her boyfriend

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had lost his ID card and he'd getting a bunch

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of trouble if he has to go tell the bosses

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at this prison that. So she asked them if they

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would make a copy of that badge, and the clerks

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they say, no, we can't do that. They make the

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right call, right, But she is undeterred and she goes

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to a second stop called Discount Printing and they said, sure,

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we can make you one. That same day, Lynnette also

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charges eighty dollars worth of men's shirts and jeans on

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her JC Penny credit card, and her credit card statement

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also showed that she stopped at a gas station filled up,

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then drove thirty five miles home and stopped to top

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off the tank. So she's making plans to go somewhere

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with a dude. So later that evening she shows up

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for work, but unbeknownst to her colleagues, she's wearing two

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sets of correctional officer uniforms. She takes one set off

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in a bathroom and she hides that in the stall

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and she leaves with the uniform she had underneath on.

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Terry then goes into the bathroom and he does what

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you think he's gonna do right here, he puts on

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the other set, and at the end of her shift, Terry,

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who's now in a correctional officer uniform, and Lynette they

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proceed to the security gate to leave. So Lynette Barnett,

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she slaps her ID card through the swiping machine at

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the security gate at Crossroads Correctional and incidentally, y'all, this

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is in Cameron, Missouri. Then she swiped it again for

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a man for behind her, which was Terry, and they

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stroll out into the parking lot, but the controlled tower

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guard stops the man behind Barnat because he didn't recognize

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that man, and the guard asked the man who is Terry,

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to take off his black baseball cap and hand over

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his ID card, and I'm sure Terry at this point

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is shitting a brick, but he does as he's told.

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And the name on the card, Chad Matthews, was on

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the prison employee cross reference less. So the control tower

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guard gives the ID back and says, you know, have

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a nice day. There was five hundred employees at this prison.

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You just can't keep track of every one of them.

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And during shift change about one hundred people would leave

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and a hunter would come in, so it was a

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little chaotic. But they do get out and Terry follows

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Lynnett out into the parking lot. He climbs in her

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truck and they take off down the road. Now, as

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far as Lynette was concerned, no one was expecting her

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home that day. She had told her mother and her

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mother's boyfriend that she was going forty miles north to

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her grandmother's house. This was in Bethany, Missouri, and she

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told them she was taking a five day weekend so

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they wouldn't get suspicious of her missing for at least

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five days. In her mind. Now, all that was missing

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from Lynette's room was a toothbrush, toothpaste, deuterant in her

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seizure medication. So the prison, and this is a stroke

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of bad luck for these two. They do a prison

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count like ten minutes after Lynette and Terry leave, and

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of course that count comes up one man short. What

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happens then they recount, and upon that recount they conclude

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that Terry Banks is in fact missing. So at that

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point they place all the inmates in lockdown and they

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start going through security footage, and sure enough they see

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that whole incident transpire when Terry and Lynnette were leaving

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the prison, and to that point, an arrest warrant gets

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issued for Terry Banks and Lynette. They weren't sure at

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this point whether she was being forced to do this

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or not, but they went ahead and did an arrest

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warrant in the event that she wasn't forced, but they

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weren't quite sure yet. However, that wouldn't last long because

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the FBI gets called in and they discover that upon

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leaving the prison, Lynnette stops at a liquor store outside

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of the prison and cash is her fourteen hundred dollars

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paycheck rather than just bringing it to the bank. So,

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unbeknownst to police FBI, Lynette and Terry their drive drive

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driving and They're three hours away, heading sound to where

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Terry's dad lived with Terry's dad's brother.

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His name was Charlie Banks.

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He had moved in with Terry's uncle just a few

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weeks prior to the escape. And of course they tell

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him that Terry's broke out of prison and we need

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you to hide us. And Charlie said that he knew

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some people that leved in Victoria, Texas and he would

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help them, but he'd like to go on the run

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with them. As I told you, Charlie Banks was bad news.

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Always had been his whole life. So the apple didn't

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fall far from the tree there. So they had to Victoria, Texas,

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and that's only about one hundred miles from the Mexican border,

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which was the ultimate goal for the fugitives. And they're

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on the run for about a month. It turns into

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December of nineteen ninety nine and the police they have

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no real leads as to where the hell these people are.

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So police decide to contact a very popular national TV

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show called America's Most wanted to feature the case, and

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they're hoping that this is going to provide some leads. Now,

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one thing they knew was because the three of them

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were on the run together. The chances were pretty good

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that someone may recognize at least one of these three guys.

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The more people you have, the higher those chances increase.

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Now in the meantime, on December tenth, police do find

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Lynette's truck near Joplin, Missouri, and police discover that Charlie

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Banks had sold it to an individual for two thousand

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dollars cash, and that America's Most Wanted episode airs, and

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police receive over sixty tips as to the whereabouts of

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that trio. On December seventeenth of nineteen ninety nine, a

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man in Victoria, Texas calls the tip line and he

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said he recognized Terry and Lynette in that they were

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traveling with an older individual. And he said he remembered

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the tattoos that Terry had on his hands and a

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scar that was mentioned in the episode on America's Most Wanted.

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But what was most interesting to police with this particular

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tip is on America's Most Wanted, they didn't mention anything

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about those two traveling with an older gentleman. They didn't

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say anything about Charlie, and that was on purpose because

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they knew if someone mentioned those two traveling with an

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older man. There's no way they would have known that,

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and it would be a good tip. So police are

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fired up. They're pretty sure, hey, we've got a really

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valid tip coming out of.

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Victoria, Texas.

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And the tipster he even gave the address where he

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met them at. Investigators go to that address and sure enough,

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there was a couple that lived there. That's the description

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of Terry Banks and Lynette. The apartment manager brings them

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up to the apartment. The police opened the door and

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it's completely empty, no one there. Police would discover later

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on that in between the time that authorities have received

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that tip in them showing up at the apartment, Terry

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Banks had been approached by someone else who lived in

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that complex, and that person told Terry in a joking

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manner that he looked just like the guy from an

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episode of America's Most Wanted, and of course Terry was like,

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holy shit. He goes in, he tells Lynette, and they

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got the hell out of there. And what they actually

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did was they packed their shit and they had to

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Charlie's hideout. He was hiding out in a I guess

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you could say unmarked trailer park. No one could trace

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it back to him, and that became the hotout for

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Terry Andnette and police. They had no idea where they

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were at, but they knew they were close. They knew

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they were hot on their trail. So another tip comes

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in from someone else, but this time that person recognized Charlie,

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who police had at this point made public, and they

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pointed out to police where this guy's trailer park was,

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where this particular trailer was, and police start surveilling it.

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Now FBI agents and officers from the Victoria Police Department,

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the Sheriff's office, the Texas Department of Public Safety. They

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all show up conveniently at one of the officer's house,

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which was up on top of the hill and it

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overlooked that trailer park, so they could watch the comings

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and goings literally from this officer's house. And sure enough,

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that afternoon they see Terry and Lynette walking with their dog,

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whose name was Oreo, through the trailer park. Charlie gets

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home that afternoon and they start drinking beer, smoking cigarettes,

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watching TV, etc. And when night fell, the officers start

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kind of moving in. And there was a fifteen acre

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cornfield that separated that trailer park and the highway and

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that's where they kind of start moving in because that

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corn created natural hiding spots for these police officers. And

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they see Terry. He's walking back and forth to and

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from the trailer. So throughout the night they're positioning, they

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start closing off highways. They know they've got this guy,

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but they had heard a lot of rumors that Terry

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stayed armed at all times, so they weren't taking any chances.

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They figured we'll wait till they're asleep and then we'll

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go make the arrest. So, as luck would have it,

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at some point during the US Charlie walks outside and

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they take him into custody right away. At this point,

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Banks and Barnett they're still inside the trailer, so police

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decide this is the time to make our move. They

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get on the bullhorn and they start screaming Banks and

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Barnett come out with your hands up, and they do

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this thirteen times and nobody comes out. Finally, after what

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seemed like an eternity, some hands come out at the

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front of the trailer and it is Lynette. She immediately

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gets arrested, thrown in a patrol car, and still Terry

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is refusing to come out. Stay on that bullhorn, and

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then they decide, we're not waiting any longer, we're going in.

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And about the seconds that they decide to do that,

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Terry's hands appear and there was no fight. He gave

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himself up and surrenders to police and they actually threw

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him in the patrol corps with Lynnette. So they go

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to the county jail. Lynnette costs her mother, and her

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mother even commented that Lynnette was asking how Terry was doing.

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Had her mother heard anything. She also called her sister,

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and her sister would say later that it was all

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about Terry and she was just defending Terry and was

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very concerned about him. So that shows you how much

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the high bristophilia was filling up this woman. So regardless,

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they're all in jail, and Charlie Banks he remains behind

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bars in Victoria County jail. He gets a bail of

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twenty thousand dollars and there's a lot of people that

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wanted to interview him and find out what was going

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on with these three, but the police would not allow

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interviews at this point. So they all had their arraiments.

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They all do what you think they would do in

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these cases. They plead not guilty because they want to

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work out plea deals, right, and actually, see Charlie Banks,

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he had a pretty good deal. He ends up with

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a year in prison. After it was all said and done,

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Lynette Barnett, she pleaded guilty to aiding in the escape

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of a prisoner in court that was on October second

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of two thousand and the judge gives Lynette the charges

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maximum sentence, which was five years. And as for Terry Banks,

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who was serving life in prison already, he gets an

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additional fifteen years for the escape. So throughout this whole thing,

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he had nothing to lose, right, ends up with an

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extra fifteen years on top of a life sentence. But

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there you have it. And look, America's most Wanted I

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have reviewed a lot of these cases, and back in

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that time, that was like the most popular TV show

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in America in the nineties. So a lot of these

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escapes that took place in the nineties.

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That's how they would catch these fools.

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This was kind of pre I mean, there was social

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media and all that stuff, but it's not what it

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was or what it is today. Back then that was

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kind of the social media. That's how you got the

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word out was you had to be on something like

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America's Most Wanted, so shout out to them. And I

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got a little bit of something extra for you today,

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a little lang yap, if you will, as we say

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here in South Louisiana. And it's just a real quick story.

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But I wanted to include this because it's pretty crazy.

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I thought y'all would find it entertaining. And I'm gonna

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tell you about Tina Gonzalez, who was twenty six years

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old and she began her career as a Fresno County

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Sheriff's correctional officer. This was in September of twenty sixteen.

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Now she resigned from her job at the end of

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December of twenty nineteen. So, in early December of twenty nineteen,

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Fresno County jail staff members they received a tip that

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a male inmate was in possession of a cell phone

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and was also involved in a one year sexual relationship

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with a correctional officer by the name of Tina Gonzalez.

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Jail staff they searched the cell of this inmate and

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they find that mobile phone. So those allegations were passed

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on to members of the Sheriff's executive staff and this

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internal affairs unit was assigned to investigate the accused employee

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and the vice unit was tasked with investigating potential crimes

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committed by Gonzales related to all this. So both units

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found evidence to support these allegations. In addition to that,

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detectives discovered that Gonzales had on one occasion, brought alcohol

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into the jail. Now this charge stemmed from a separate

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incident from Gonzala's relationship with the inmate. The you've been

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screwing for over a year. So detectives come in, they

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interview Gonzales, and she submits her resignation to the Sheriff's office.

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So let me tell you how this all goes down

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from there. On Friday, May first of twenty twenty, detectives

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