Along this latest stretch of his journey as he passed through from Western Washington
into Oregon, he left a note at a Raymond Animal Hospital that read, "Drove By Had Some
Extra Cash Please Use This Money For The Care Of The Animals."
He signed it, "Colton Harris Moore In parentheses, aka The Barefoot Bandit, Kameno Island Washington."
Ever heard of me? Ever heard of her?
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We feel like it's just like we don't know what to do with our hands.
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But now if you want to see us waving back at you, go to YouTube, join Patreon, add free, do the things, do all the things.
Yeah. What do we weigh? Who are we? Yeah. We're going to get back to that, okay?
It feels like pretty on-brand to just have an aside in the second sentence of the intro. That's just who we are.
Five seconds in. It's fine. If you don't like that leaf, now get out now.
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I'm wearing this special cemetery necklace just for our little outing later.
You know what else we do in these episodes?
What?
Tero readings at the end, just so we can get a little deeper insight into what we're talking about for the day.
Yeah. That thing. It's fun. That old gal.
All right. Are you ready?
I have wine.
Chapstick. Water. I think I'm prepared.
I had to make sure I had my chapstick. Got the water.
Okay. Yeah. We got all the necessities.
Necessities?
Yes. And we already said, "Asside your goodies for our other new show coming soonish."
What?
Is this breaking news right now? Are you just dropping this bomb on everybody?
I feel like we've hinted at it.
Kind of. I don't think we've actually said it was a new show.
No. We haven't.
Stay tuned.
Stay Titty-Tunid.
Wow. Really on one with the titties today.
I like titties. All right.
She's all about it.
Wow.
All right. Look at her. She's getting a after it.
Okay. We can get the sillies out.
All right. And then we'll go to your probably serious episode.
Well, it's not to say that this is a completely unserious episode, but it's a little bit more like-hearted.
Okay. Well, I love that.
Yeah. I like to.
Do a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
All right.
Today, we're talking about someone who became somewhat of a folk hero during his teenage years.
A modern-day teen Houdini.
Oh, okay.
I'm very intrigued.
There's no magic involved.
Oh, yeah.
Well, okay. Why would you bring up Houdini if there's no magic?
I don't- that was just one of the nicknames that they gave him.
So, Colton Harris Moore, also known as the Barefoot Bandit or Barefoot Burglar.
Okay.
Colton's story is one of adrenaline, reckless crime sprees, and some truly jaw-dropping crash landings and escapes.
Okay.
So buckle up like you're strapped in on a Boeing jet.
Oh, God.
I don't know if I want to be strapped in on a Boeing jet.
I think I want a good escape, escape, escape plan.
Yeah.
This is sounding like DB Cooper.
I can't say that there aren't maybe slight similarities, but...
Yeah.
Okay. I'm excited for this one.
Yeah. I thought you would really like this one.
In addition to digging through everything I could find online,
I watched the Barefoot Bandit documentary as part of my research for this case.
Ooh.
Which is actually kind of cool.
They do like part animated, like reenactment type scenes and stuff.
Oh.
Yeah.
There are some instances where they have like live action, like real actors doing reenactments of things as well,
which I will say makes it a little bit confusing at first to try to figure out, like,
wait, is that real footage?
Oh.
But I really liked it.
I really, really liked it.
Colton's criminal activity began early.
He was born to parents with addiction issues,
and seemingly not a lot of resources.
That's unfortunate.
Yeah, it's not a great compo.
Yeah.
But I feel like usually that's how that patterns out.
Locals were shocked when they realized that it was none other than 10-year-old Colton Harris Moore,
who'd broken into the Stanwood Elementary School on Camano Island.
10 years old.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
I can't even imagine trying to break into something when I was 10.
Yeah.
He was even known to hit hike at this tender age.
Oh.
I mean, I feel like living on an island in the Puget Sound at this point, probably that was,
I mean, still not a safe thing to do.
It wasn't safe to do, like, five decades prior, even, but yeah, but like in that sort of a smaller,
more rural community.
So young.
I know.
When Colton was still a young child, his dad began an awful cycle of coming and going,
returning and then leaving again, which is not super healthy just because obviously I think
whether you're a child or not, most people crave a little bit of stability in their life.
Yeah.
Especially kids.
They need that.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Eventually, his father stepped completely out of the picture.
He was a heavy drinker.
Not so subtly hinting at alcoholism as a factor for their unstable home life.
Well, it's probably got a good thing that he left.
I mean, yeah.
The whole thing.
Yeah.
There's, it's kind of one of those things where like is it worse for the kid to grow up in
an environment where someone is maybe having outbursts or they're seeing things related to,
you know, issues with substances that they can't really process or is it better to deal with
that, you know, the potential abandonment or I don't know.
None of it's good.
No.
And you know what?
We don't even have time to unpack it because my notes are super long today.
I know.
I mean, I don't want to unpack it.
So it's fine.
Yeah.
You're like, okay, moving on.
Just like, I'm a sad.
I know.
Ultimately, Colton was raised by a single mother in a mobile home on the island.
It may be that keeping himself fed was the initial or at least the primary driver to start
with when it came to his criminal career as a kid.
But it doesn't seem like we should write off shits and giggles or run of the mill rebellion
in the face of an unstable home environment as sort of contributing factors.
Yeah.
And not to say that that's an excuse per se, but, you know, we talk about this a lot where
it's like understanding where this person is coming from and their background.
Yeah.
You know, we can figure out ways to maybe, okay, how do we make that not a thing?
Yeah.
But I feel like a lot of kids go through that thing where they're a little rebellious.
Maybe they break into places here and there.
Probably mostly like abandoned places, but I don't know.
Abandoned places that can be really dangerous.
Well, yes, so dangerous.
But I'm just like, not for the intent of like harming anybody is kind of what I'm getting
at.
It's like, I feel like some kids are rebellious and they do that kind of thing, but they
don't turn into like criminals in the end.
Yes.
Hardened, violent criminals.
Yes.
That's, I feel like the main priority.
Like what's avoid that.
Yeah.
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Renton, Washington.
By that point, he was already becoming a menace in the region.
Moo.
Yeah.
Not like Dennis the menace, not like in a super cute kind of way.
Yeah.
That's like, you know, lovable, brosglous.
Yeah.
I wouldn't say harm.
Foooo.
But also not harmless.
Okay.
At six foot five and two hundred pounds.
Holy sh-
Owls.
I know.
Yeah.
I was like, oh, f*ck.
That's big.
Yeah.
I think that's why when I read that, I was a little bit confused because the reenactment actor
that they had in some of the documentary clips.
I was like, that kid, I guess that's why I.
Wow.
So when I read that, I was like, okay.
Probably hard to find.
Right?
This green eyed and now a well versed if barefoot burglar from Camano Island.
Colton wasn't your average runaway.
Doesn't sound like it.
No.
He’s in like the 90th percentile for height.
I'm just kidding.
I was just thinking, I'm like, he's like a kid.
I feel like I think about it in terms of like, you know, like a pediatrician.
I'm like, oh my god.
Yeah.
You're going to keep growing like he's like, I don't think so.
I think he probably talked out at that point.
I don't know.
Thus began the period that Colton, the barefoot burglar, lived on the lamb, camping in the woods
primarily, lived on the lamb.
Mm-hmm.
What is on the lamb?
What does that mean?
You just, it's like running from the law.
That's an old-timey way of saying they were like outlaws.
That's interesting.
Like what?
I can't even picture like where that saying even came from.
Like what does that even mean?
Mom the lamb, doll.
I don't get it.
I feel like I definitely used that before in a case.
Not just Gloucester, but I probably wasn't saying attention.
That was where I was dissociating.
I just want to make sure you cut onto the fact other than lived on the lamb.
He was camping in the woods of the island.
I thought you were saying lived off the land.
I wonder if that's what I just feel like a chill man.
I don't, I don't, computer.
Okay, camping.
Yeah.
Not a good place to camp, I feel like.
I feel like, you know, it's similar in terms of like the climate and everything from here.
It wasn't cold.
Yeah, I would say arguably quite a bit wetter.
Yeah.
Way more wetter-er.
I guess I don't know what time it will be here, but I just-
Largely during like kind of the milder months of like spring and summer, but I mean this
lasted more than- more than two seasons.
Let me say.
Wow.
Okay.
It lasted for quite some time.
He had a particular set of skills and apparently detested footwear, like a bizarre mashup
of Liam Neeson and Mowgli.
Oh, okay.
I feel like he was definitely probably neurospicy then.
I think so.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think there's some spice in there.
That's a thing.
Yeah.
Not diagnosing, but yeah.
Sounds a little spicy.
The skills section of his resume included breaking into homes and businesses, stealing credit
cards and using them to purchase all sorts of things.
GPS devices, bear mace, because you don't know if you're camping out.
And because he's a teenage boy, we know that there had to be some porn in the mix, right?
Couple playboys.
That detail didn't always get a lot of playtime in the nightly news, but kind of cracked me
up.
I felt like I came across like sources that at least hinted at it or people in the documentary
that like we're making kind of like joking comments about it.
And I was like, yeah, he's a teenage boy with a credit card.
Like, necessitated.
Wow.
It all circles back.
So he definitely could afford shoes.
He just couldn't.
He chose not to wear the shoes.
Yeah.
He could afford some shoes.
He could have had Jimmy choose.
Not in the woods, you can't.
I mean, I feel like they make other types of footwear fancy, but maybe not with like a
siletto.
Anyways, that's beyond that.
Yeah.
It's not the point.
Eventually all the staples one would need to turn a tree house into a tree home.
Just a few things that he needed to survive in the dense woods of rural Washington.
A live laugh love sign for his tree home.
Obviously.
Colton and a friend and I swear to God, I am not making this name up.
He's one of the talking heads.
He has the lower fifth.
He's got the, you know, the title.
Like this is, this is his name allegedly.
But it out.
Harley Davidson Ironwing.
Wow.
I like the Ironwing part.
That's pretty cool.
I know it sounds like Game of Thrones.
Yeah.
Colton and a friend, Harley Davidson Ironwing, formed a burglary team.
And soon enough, Colton's exploits earned him a catchy nickname from the media.
It's unclear who exactly dubbed him Teen Houdini.
But news channel reporters, Marley Genter of Como 4 and Rob Pierci of King V's reporting
would feature the nickname.
Wow.
They said it.
I don't know.
Houdini.
Oh.
Houdini.
Teen Houdini.
Such a missed opportunity.
Kind of felt like a martini though.
Yeah.
So inappropriate.
For his situation probably.
I mean, yeah.
I guess it's not as bad as moniker's go, but I think it also sends a message about the
level of threat he was perceived to pose at least maybe initially.
So that made him sound less threatening than he actually was?
I feel like it was a little bit making light of it because it doesn't imply necessarily
criminality.
It's more like you say Houdini, I think dare double.
Perhaps a bit cheeky.
Yeah.
You know?
I feel like he's not typically associated with true crime.
Right.
I don't know.
I mean, let me know if there's something I should know about Houdini.
I feel like there's some stuff about Houdini.
I like sketchy.
I don't know.
I can't remember what it is, but there's something.
I feel like there are some things.
I wait.
Did he die trying to escape one of his things?
I think so.
Okay.
Maybe that's one of them.
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah.
Like someone locked him in there.
And like someone did something shady to him.
Something shady.
However, the toning coverage would change over time as Colton would go on to elude the
authorities for roughly two years from this point forward.
Wow.
That's a long time.
Yeah.
Pretty successful on that whole run in a way and escaping the love.
That whole living on this lamb thing.
That's almost as long as the three-year sentence that he was supposed to be serving at
the time in that transitional juvenile detention facility.
Oh, he escaped.
Yeah.
That's where he escaped from.
And yeah.
Wow.
So Colton and Harley would take a vehicle at one of the island vacation homes that they'd
broken into for joy rides.
Here's the thing.
If you fuel it up, put it back in the exact right spot and maybe even do a little light
detailing.
Which apparently they did, the person might not notice.
Also I might not mind if you borrowed my car occasionally at that point.
Right.
If you're going to clean it and fill it up.
But I also don't drive a brand new Mercedes-Benz.
Wow.
So that was really nice and considerate of them though.
I think they were just trying not to get caught.
Yeah.
I could see that.
Yeah.
Such a nice boy.
I know.
Such sweet boys.
Very polite.
Very jimure.
So mindful.
So jimure.
Right.
Mindful.
I don't know.
I don't know the words you guys.
I don't take talk.
One of the primary areas where he operated other than Camino Island where he was originally
from was the East Sound, a village on Orchist Island.
Ooh.
You love you some Orchist Island.
That's so funny because that's literally what I was going to say.
This is a place that I know and love.
Orchist truly spent much of her youth around the holidays and particularly during the
lovely summer months in this very place.
No.
You have to take me there someday.
I know.
Okay.
You'll love this next part.
The deer on the island are adorable.
Oh.
They're deer, right?
Not deer.
No.
They're actual deer.
They're just tiny.
They're so small.
Oh.
Watching them eat the crab apples off the lawn at my grandparents' place is a very fond
memory.
Oh.
Along with card games and you know, they went on for hours, holiday meals, everyone seated
around the living room and dining room that those sizeables they might have been.
Oftentimes felt too small for an Irish Catholic family and all of their progeny.
Oh, you're really painting a picture right now.
Yeah.
Very nice.
Good night.
Leading into the holidays.
I know.
Okay.
So here's the weird thing.
I'm not even going to mention this, but I feel like I have to know.
It was a sign.
I decided just now.
We never really did Turkey for Thanksgiving when we went up to the island.
Oh.
Yeah.
Weird, right?
We did land.
Oh.
And it's because my paternal grandmother developed an allergy to Turkey as an adult.
Wow.
And it wasn't that it's wild because I feel like I don't know.
We didn't really have anything else that was like, I don't know, a deviation from kind
of the traditional meal plan or whatever for holidays and stuff, but that was one thing
we always did different.
We also had so many, like my dad is one of like nine and they all went on to just procreate
like it was their mission.
So there's so many of us.
So I remember we did Thanksgiving one year where we had Turkey, ham, lamb, and I think there
might have been something else.
I can't even remember what.
What?
Yeah.
Lamb sounds good though.
Oh, my grandma is such a good cook.
She makes a really, I've never had it for obvious reasons, but not the lamb.
I do eat that.
But she makes a chocolate cream pie that everybody says is to die for.
Honestly, I want to get the recipe just because even if I won't eat it, I feel like I need
a need that card in my back pocket.
You know what I mean?
I probably wouldn't need it because it's got like whipped cream in it, right?
I think usually you whip like chocolate pudding and whipped cream basically together.
I'm not a whipped cream person.
I don't know.
I'm not even that much of a chocolate person.
Yeah.
I think that's why we like each other so much.
And that's, yeah, that's the only thing we haven't common.
That's how this started.
That's interesting lamb and then living off the lamb and...
Oh yeah.
So many synchronicities.
There you go.
Anyway, all of this is to say, I remember at the time family members expressing concern about
my aging grandparents living in an isolated part of this very island as all of this was
occurring.
Oh, really?
Yes.
Wow.
And other than that, I only recall occasionally catching brief snippets about Colton and his
crimes on the news.
I do remember seeing something about Teen Houdini in real time, but that's cool.
I don't remember any of it.
I remember seeing it when we were up on the island.
I don't know that you would have seen it in the news as much here in Portland.
Okay.
But while he was still on Orchist Island, at least.
Right.
Because he's like on an island.
So how far could he get?
Oh, well.
And then he said, hold my beer.
Hold my lamb.
I want you to remember that you said that.
Okay.
Hold my lamb, child.
Meanwhile, Colton, who's the same age as my younger brother.
So early 30s now, but at the time, obviously we're talking about his teenage years.
We're literally born within two months of each other in the same year.
Wow.
I was like, okay, I know exactly what was very familiar.
Spent a lot of time with a kid just like you.
Did your brother wear shoes?
My brother did wear shoes.
He was known to Don footwear when it was necessary.
At least there's that.
Yeah.
So that's really where they deviate the harsh ones.
The harsh ones.
Yeah.
So meanwhile, Colton, who's the same age as my younger brother, was getting up to some
stiff like stealing an infrared camera from a local island fire station seemingly with
the sole purpose of using it to scope out homes before burglaries.
That's creepy.
I know.
So you can tell if people are in the house because a lot of people have vacation properties
on these islands.
I was like, was he going to go ghost hunting?
No.
I don't think so.
The crazy part though is that fire station was directly across the street from a home that
he had burglarized already.
Wow.
Twice.
Holy shit.
Well, small island, am I right?
How does the infamous Quico?
I think something like full me once can't get tricked again.
To which Colton said, well, my beer, which I think you're going to find.
I will quote him as saying a couple of times, maybe worked to two.
I think now hopefully you wasn't drinking alcohol.
I have to imagine there is probably a little bit of undraged drinking somewhere along the
way.
I feel like at a certain point that's small potatoes.
I like to think he is much of a criminal as he is.
He was like a hard pass on the alcohol.
Oh, okay.
He's like straight edge.
Yeah.
Maybe the vibe I'm getting from this guy.
Okay.
Well, I guess we'll see.
But other thing getting carried away by the juvenile version of True Crime Light, it hardly
computes that he's making the news based on our story so far.
Right?
I guess what I'm trying to say is it just doesn't seem crazy newsworthy at this point.
Like some burglary happens every day.
Yeah.
You know, that just doesn't feel like, oh, I'm not going to see that on CNN.
Right.
You know, local news.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Well, that's because I did one of my favorite things and buried the lead, of course.
You guys are so silly.
He wasn't just a local kid causing minor problems with his shenanigans though.
Colton took his crime spree on the road.
I mean, and also or rather to the air.
Okay.
That's right.
In 2010, at the age of 19, he stole a plane and crash landed on an island in the Bahamas.
That's really far away.
Huh?
Though it wasn't his first crash or planes, silly plane theft.
In fact, far from it, his fascination with planes wasn't a secret.
He'd stolen an infrared camera from a fire station to scope out homes for burglaries.
Remember that from like 15 seconds ago, but stealing a plane?
That kind of took things to a whole new level.
Dude had a major hard on for aviation.
Interesting.
Fun fact or maybe disturbing fact.
Prior to his catching that international flight, Colton had ordered a book titled, How
to Fly a plane.
Let's go say, how did he even know how to fly it?
Having a credit card that he managed to steal somehow from a local restaurant, he even
had said book shipped to that same restaurant, which on the surface, I kind of thought was
a dummy move, proving that I probably would have needed a masterclass to get away with anything
at that age.
Yeah.
I was like, that's the stupidest thing you could do.
And then I was like, oh, actually, that kind.
All right.
So here's how it plays out.
He watched the tracking for the order so that he could ensure he'd be able to grab the
loot at an opportune time.
He waited until after the restaurant's business hours to break in after close and take his
book.
Wow.
I know.
I don't know.
That was probably still pretty risky, but who would think that you'd return to the scene
of the crime in this case?
That's murderer stuff.
Man.
Yeah.
Not just that.
I don't know.
Is it a computer?
Yeah.
Wow.
Bro, this kid, Roll Savvy in some odd ways.
Okay.
How do you get internet in the woods?
I mean, they're, I don't think they're offering Wi-Fi in the woods, but there are other places
that you can go.
Oh, Starbucks.
Okay.
Yeah.
Starbees.
You might almost think this guy was some evil mastermind plotting his next move.
I'm not so sure about that, but his obsession with aviation was real, like a set massive
heart on.
Obviously, he put these books and manuals that he managed to get his little raccoon hands
on to practical use.
He was fascinated by airplanes.
He had pictures of them up in his room.
He drew pictures of them and could rattle off fun facts about planes as he saw them flying
overhead.
Okay.
So this is just cementing the narrow spiciness.
I feel like, yeah, of this hyper fixation on airplanes.
It's giving the tizamist strong.
Yes.
Again, not diagnosing, but I mean, hey, listen.
So back to his exploits, like that one time that he casually broke into a safe after ransacking
a local store, netting some essential supplies that also roughly $3,000 after beating the
safe in.
Oh, I was like, how did he learn how to like lock pick a safe?
No.
In the documentary, you actually see the safe and it's pretty much demolished.
Kids of freaking beast.
Oh, so how do you beat a safe?
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
With a crowbar, I think.
And even still, I...
What?
You must have had some rage you needed to get out or something.
As it could save to say.
The crazy thing is, Colton is believed to have been, again, this work.
I'm coming back because I just...
I couldn't get over this.
Essentially living in the woods and occasionally couch surfing.
He's living off his exploits and the occasional kindness of others while executing numerous burglaries
that would continue to escalate.
People police did at times find some of his camping sites in the area.
You see quite a few of them in the documentary.
Colton's dog.
Also, they just dropped that in.
Like, he's just hanging out in the woods with a dog that I was like, we're just learning
about the dog.
Does anyone know the dog's name?
What kind of dog?
It looked like it was a black lap.
I don't know if that's really the kind of dog that he had.
But they didn't say his name?
No, I don't remember anyone saying the name of the dog.
I feel like it was aviation-related.
Right?
Orval.
I just remember that from the true crime cards we were just thinking.
Yeah.
Colton's dog was even impounded during one of their various searches and held as evidence.
Despite Colton's mother's attempts to reclaim the dog, authorities wouldn't allow it because
evidence.
I hope he was being taken care of.
Yeah.
Well, though clearly as his mother pointed out, if they planned to subpoena the canine,
they were barking up the wrong tree.
He didn't have anything to do with it.
I know.
Leave the dog alone.
I know.
I, it really stressed me out when they were talking about the dog.
So that's why there are so many puns.
I was like, I just, I got to figure out how to stress me out.
Oh, no.
What to do with my hands?
Leave Orval alone.
I love how you just, you just named him.
In all seriousness, they probably thought that the dog would be easy leverage with the
kid.
I mean, they wanted to bring his spree to an end without blowing their overtime budget.
A number of people that knew Colton well commented throughout the documentary that he was always
on the hunt for a new source of adrenaline seemingly.
And it certainly doesn't seem like he was a complete dummy.
We already know he was pretty good at getting away with his crimes and that they would eventually
take on a whole new scale.
So as you might suspect, his pooch didn't stay at the pound for long.
Of course the guy who steals things is going to steal back his dog.
Oh, thank goodness.
I was dying.
I was like, really?
Is this real?
Because they do a cartoon animation of it.
So is this real?
Did he really do this or come on?
How much artistic license are we taking?
Nope.
Much to the dismay of the authorities.
The haven't.
The one thing I'm okay with him stealing is the dog.
I know.
Well, especially after his mom tried to get the dog back and they were like, nope, it's evidence.
And she was like, pole gay.
I mean, I can see where they're coming from, but I mean, I feel like that's pretty thin,
guys.
More of a sauce spot for the dog because the dog doesn't know what's going on.
It just knows it's not what it's human anymore.
So that's what breaks my heart.
Well, and I was really worried.
I was like, okay, yes, this is based in the Pacific Northwest, but it's a small island.
I don't know what their resources are.
I was scared, shitless, that they were going to tell us that this dog was taken to like
a kill shelter or something.
I was like, I won't finish this documentary.
I wouldn't listen to the story.
No, there was another dog.
Nope.
We'd have to go.
No, that would be a very short episode.
That's the crime.
I'm fucking cares about the Bahamas.
Okay, but I want to know about the Bahamas.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, yeah, it's kind of a big part of the whole thing.
So remember how I said that he would be arrested after making it all the way to the Bahamas.
But that wasn't the first plane that he'd stolen and then subsequently crashed.
Do you remember I said something about that?
So he crashed more than one plane.
How do you, oh my God.
Well, listen, if you're trying to learn how to fly a plane from a book, right?
After crashing one plane, I would not, how do you get back at another plane?
He is a young dumb teenage boy.
I feel like they do I need to say more?
God, plane crashes.
Yeah.
So I think this next part could be part of the explanation for how the story seemingly blew
up.
I mean, aside from the overall outlandishness of his series of crimes.
In November 2008, he reportedly stole the plane of then radio personality Bob Rivers from
a hangar on Orcas Island.
Wow.
So it's kind of like you fuck with a celebrity stuff and you're already like escalating.
Like, yeah, I could see Bob maybe getting on the mic and being like, this fucking kid stole
my plane.
Did they know who stole it?
I don't know that they were confident right away because at this point, he hadn't stolen
a bunch of planes.
So they're like, who could have done this?
And actually, I think initially they were sort of, the authorities were sort of like, oh,
there's got to be like, they suspected maybe even like drug runners or something.
That makes sense.
Like that or like terrorists or something bigger than just a teenager.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Joy right now.
Yeah.
But that plane, a Cessna 182, was valued at over $150,000 pre-flight, which is, I gotta say,
pretty fucking cheap for a plane.
Okay.
We're gonna learn.
I'm guessing significantly less afterwards because Colton may have taught himself how to fly
a plane essentially, but for all his efforts, playing flight simulator games and reading
aircraft manuals, he hadn't taught himself how to stick the landing.
That's a very important part of flying a plane, I feel like.
Sort of essential if you ever want to do it again.
It's like, oh yeah, okay, I did it.
I'm a, I'm a shit.
Oh, I gotta get back down, guys.
I've really miscalculated.
I got, I got too excited.
I blew my load too soon.
Oh my God.
Well, 300 miles east, he crash landed it on the Yakima reservation, fleeing from the crash
site before authorities made it to the scene.
They landed on a reservation.
I mean, he crashed on a reservation.
He clearly was not in full control of where this plane was going.
I think as the crash landing implies, they've been through enough.
Yeah.
Seriously.
I'm happy about that.
Honestly, this next crime might seem like small potatoes compared to the theft of an
actual ass airplane, but he also robbed a grocery store on Orcas Island as well.
Oh, yeah, he got hungry after all that crashing.
Totally.
Based on the surveillance footage, I think I've actually been to that grocery store on
the island, even without seeing the footage from the store.
That would be a fair assumption, though, because it's not a large island.
And unless a lot has changed since I was last there, I don't think there's a Walmart
Super Center or similar down the road.
There's not that many places to go.
Anyway, the footage is grainy, but what is visible is an individual driving a forklift directly
into the ATM machine.
It's funny, but it's not funny.
Colton bad.
So random.
You crash a plane and then steal a forklift and ram an ATM.
Yeah.
And some of these, it's really hard to track down the exact date.
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Back to our crash course in aviation.
Yeah.
See what I did though?
I do.
You get it?
With Colton, because this guy was stealing planes, trains, and automobiles left and right.
I mean, if you're going to steal a plane, you're probably also going to steal other stuff.
I had four glyphs.
Yeah, I had four glyphs.
Back home on Cmeno Island near the summer of 2009, he broke into a police officer's
patrol car that was parked in front of the police officer's home.
Holy shit, he's getting bold.
Pretty brazen, right?
Yeah.
He stole police equipment, including a cell phone, an official issue police rifle, and a supply
of ammunition.
Question.
Why is this policeman leaving a gun in his car parked out dead?
I feel like I have seen where they have some sort of like a rifle rack.
I sort of assume that that's got some sort of a walking mechanism to it.
But yeah, now I have a lot of follow-up shifts.
And they're probably like, who's going to break into a police car?
Like, again, Colton said, "Oh, my beard."
As the seasons changed, Colton's MO certainly had not.
This next part of the story that I'm going to tell you gives you a little bit of an idea
about just how much of a Charlie Fox trot situation, Colton's criminal antics, and the man
hunt for him had become Charlie Fox trot.
That's another one of those pilots they talk and they do the code stuff like in the military.
What's a Charlie Fox trot?
I think it's literally for like a catastrophic like fuck up or something.
Charlie Fox trot is a military euphemism for a mistake or disorganization.
It is similar to the term "snaffoo."
Oh, okay.
Yeah, got you.
Which that one I know we have like been like, what does that exactly like?
What does that technically mean?
I know what I think, but Colton had made his way to Canada from Northern Washington.
Because he stole both.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Like how do you get through the border?
Yeah.
Did he have his passport?
I don't think I think at this point you still did not need a passport to go into Canada.
I forget that was the thing.
Yep.
And as one might do in the land of maple syrup, he briefly befriended some Canadian musicians
when he approached them on the side of the road after their van broke down.
Oh.
The most adorable, like, meet cute with just like the most Canadian adult.
They're like, oh.
And then he became a rhodian.
That's the end of the story.
Right?
No.
When their friend arrived to pick them up, the group ended up smoking weed in the vehicle.
What?
Duh.
Canadian band.
Uh-huh.
Uh, they seemed like super sweet and like normal people, just Canadian musicians.
They just, you know, they're just live in life and being Canadian.
Were they a good documentary?
They were.
Yeah.
He stayed in one of the men's camper vans on his property after spending that night around
the fire enjoying their high.
Oh.
I know.
It seemed it was like kind of wholesome, honestly.
From what I gather, he then made his way back to the state side and in Bonner's very Idaho
on September 29th of 2009, managed to seal another sessna that he flew westward, landing
in a manner of speaking in Granite Falls, Washington.
The main island had been his intended landing site, but when the aircraft ran out of fuel,
his plans had to abruptly change.
Oh, I got to fuel this thing.
I know.
From the sound of things, that day he came awfully close to becoming another aviation fatalities
statistic.
Jesus.
Yeah.
I believe this is the plane that was, I mean, just a very, very short distance from
the nose impacting with a tree stump that was like, I mean, how old this tree must have
been because it was massive.
And it would have just gone straight down the center of the cockpit.
Like it probably would have smashed him to be it.
So he's crashed another plane.
Yes.
Plane number two.
I mean, yeah.
As far as we know.
Yeah.
I feel like there could be planes that we maybe don't even realize.
Who knows?
Listen, it's a lot of theft.
It's a lot of fever.
It's just a lot.
It's really extra.
When authorities were made aware of the crashed aircraft, a massive manhunt in Snohomish
County ensued.
Swat teams were deployed.
But Holtin had become a ghost, vanishing into the wilderness.
They searched the nearby area, but the only thing they could find was the cash bag that he
left behind as he fled their approach.
That's right.
He literally just like, doop, doop, doop, moon walked away from Swat team.
Reportedly with $20,000 inside this cash bag that you just dropped.
He can get more.
He's really good at stealing.
He's super good at stealing.
I mean, I don't, super good.
Maybe that's the made-able.
All it takes is a forklift to know.
Yeah, I actually think that what I remember from the documentary and some of the other research
that I did was that the whole forklift thing with the ATM, I don't think he got it open.
It didn't actually work.
Yeah.
I know you're shocked.
I was kind of thinking how he would have to smash that thing a lot and I feel like he wouldn't
at that time.
Yeah.
Yeah, I feel like the authorities are arriving, sir.
You can't get away very fast on a forklift.
True.
I don't think that's how he was going to escape.
Okay.
Meanwhile, the internet went wild for Holtin in what was cleverly coined the Holtin craze.
The shirts, song tributes and you guys, YouTube, YouTube videos, aplenty were made by those
looking to profit from his exploits or as the documentary shows, teens absolutely blown
away by his brazen escapades.
They were like, this is so wild.
They're so cool.
Yeah.
A lot of reactions.
Wow.
A lot of thoughts and feelings.
So I've just sent Cassie a picture of a t-shirt that was made during this era.
I'm going to refer to it as the Mama Tried t-shirt.
It was wildly popular.
Wow.
That's funny.
Is that his face on it?
It is.
Correct.
Because there is at least one infamous post of him just like in the woods when he was in
his camping phase still on the island and he posted to Instagram during the time.
He's like running from the law and posting from the woods.
When he was in his camping era.
Yeah.
When he was in his villain era.
His camping villain era.
He's living off the lamb era.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Suddenly, he had thousands of friends on social media.
But for all the folk hero attention, not everyone was thrilled.
One resident of Orgis Island, a place where Colton obviously had committed several
burglaries, joked about selling Cass of his footprints online as memorabilia.
That person and his wife experienced backlash real quick death threats.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
From why?
There is it because they were trained to profit essentially off of that he's a criminal.
Honestly, I think that's really, do we not have bigger fish to fry?
I don't know.
Whatever.
But there's actually a news clip in the documentary.
Is this someone I believe this was from Orgis Island and they were having kind of like a town
hall style meeting.
It looks like they're in like the high school gymnasium.
And this guy, somebody handed him a mic and I was like, well, that was your first mistake.
Does that man look like he needs a microphone?
I will answer that for you.
No, no, he does not.
And he basically says like, everybody wants him dead.
Like people were like at first, he was talking about like, this is like becoming a real problem.
We got to fix this blah, blah, blah.
And everybody was like, yeah.
And they're like with him.
And he's like, everybody.
But honestly, I'd rather see him dead.
And people were like, oh, you sure it's audible.
People go like, yeah, which I was glad that, you know, people weren't immediately jumping
to like, let's kill this.
Yeah.
Like, what some people definitely were like vigilante.
Like a pitchfork.
Yeah.
What are they called?
Yes.
Like, the Lagers chasing after them with their pitchforks.
Yeah.
That was very much the imagery.
Wow.
I know.
He didn't kill anybody.
No.
I mean, definitely, I do understand the danger of stealing planes and crashing them.
You could kill a lot of people.
Absolutely.
And yes, obviously this is like, okay, we can't keep doing this.
Yeah.
At the height of the manhunt for Colton, he'd been squatting in a local airhanger.
When he stole a vehicle belonging to the owner's wife and drove to their home to make calls,
as it seemed he had been doing recently.
He was created by the SWAT team.
Whom he just ran away from, of course.
Okay, bye.
So he's squatting in their airhanger.
He steals the wife's truck.
He's two, those same people's home and he's been doing this, going there to make calls.
And somebody figures out like, oh, hey, I think this is what's going on.
Wow.
And the SWAT team is there waiting for him and he's just like, bye.
No, thank you.
It places to be.
Yeah.
Dude must have had quite the long stride.
This is where him being 65 is significant.
I just imagine the SWAT team.
The SWAT team.
Literally the SWAT team as like little short-feeling running after him and he's just like my mini-bodies
chasing him.
But I mean, he was constantly outpacing local law enforcement and now these dude bros too.
I mean, like the SWAT team get some serious training in their typically like, they're like
a pretty hearty athletic crew.
So a deputy recommended that locals on the island whose property Colton had passed through
at some point.
So this goes back to the people that got the death threats.
He had been on their property and he'd left footprints.
Okay.
So he was like, well, you should take cast of the footprints and see if they could sell,
you know, put them up on eBay.
You know, just while his crimes are still newsworthy.
So in the documentary, I watched the woman explained that a lot of people looked at the listing,
but they actually received more than one death threat through eBay.
Wow.
Yeah.
I don't understand why that needs a death threat.
I know.
Well, one of them apparently basically said that they were enabling his criminal lifestyle.
And she was like, what?
How?
Like, I feel to see how exactly because they weren't planning to wire Colton whatever
price they fetched.
Yeah.
But at any rate, she said they'll probably just hang them on the side of their chicken
coop.
Oh my gosh.
I know.
Still kind of cute and foxy, but like the death threats are like, oh, that's yucky.
Here reminds me of Bigfoot.
Like Bigfoot.
Yes.
That is exactly what I thought of.
And honestly, like, it's a sizable footprint.
So like, I know.
Wow.
Yeah.
Big boy.
Did they ever get any like, like, prints from his toes, like fingerprints?
I don't think so.
Oh, that would be so like a really cool way to catch someone.
Did toes have fingerprints, like, fingers?
I really want to look at my toes right now.
I feel like they do because I feel like I've actually heard about cases where they identified
people based on like the prints on their toes.
Obviously, like, in the mud, they're not going to get it.
But if you was like in people's home spare foot, this is like outside, like in the mud.
So if he like went to break into someone's house and like left foot, like footprints, they
could probably get actual prints from it.
Right.
Well, so here's the thing is sometimes he would leave little messages.
He would like do like a kind of like a chalk outline around like his foot.
And he'd put messages like, see ya.
Like, you know, and then sign it like the barefoot bandit.
What?
Yeah.
Oh.
There's so many weird little things that I don't even really have them in my notes officially
as like part of like the story.
But like I figured kind of as we discuss, they would sort of come up or if they don't.
But it's like, I don't really care if it's part of the story.
Some of it's just kind of it's interesting or kind of funny.
But yeah.
So like neither here nor there, but how do they not does for top prints?
Yeah, I don't know.
It's so interesting.
Yep.
Amidst the chaos that was Colton's reign over the island, Jackson Holtz, author of Fly,
Colton Fly, said when he asked Colton's mother what she would give him for Christmas if she
could gift him anything.
She replied, a bulletproof vest.
Wow.
Oh, that's really sad for her.
Yeah, I think she was very fearful that this was not going to end well.
Yeah.
Which I feel like is valid.
Sure.
You know, you're committing, these are big boy crimes.
So you might be still technically a kid through a lot of this.
But yeah, I mean, and especially if you're armed, I could see where.
I mean, nobody wants that.
Yeah.
And people obviously want him dead.
It sounds like so.
Yeah.
I thought you were going to say shoes.
Yeah.
Oh, that was sad.
No.
It's so much, so much worse.
Echoing that same dark sentiment, Orchus Island airport manager, B Von Tobel said, I think
we're well beyond the Robin Hood stage.
We're into the John Dillinger stage.
I don't know if that feels totally accurate, but point taken.
Perhaps sensing a shift in the sentiment from some Colton was on the move.
Flintstone style again around this time.
Get it?
Yeah.
Because he was barefoot behind the wheel.
Right.
Exactly.
Along this latest stretch of his journey as he passed through from Western Washington into
Oregon.
Oh, he left a note at a Raymond animal hospital that read, drove by had some extra cash.
Please use this money for the care of the animals.
Oh, he liked animals.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
He was a big animal lover.
He signed it Colton Harris Moore in parentheses, aka the barefoot bandit, Kameno Island, Washington.
Ever heard of me?
Ever heard of her?
Yeah.
As he continued east, he broke into roughly a half dozen airports on his way before landing
on one in Bloomington, Indiana.
Pun intended, you know, since landing seems to be the hard part for this wonder kind.
Obviously breaking in the airport.
I know.
I mean, small ones where it's like a private, you know, small.
He took off from that airport in yet another stolen airplane.
What?
And flew over a thousand miles south to Avaco Island in the Bahamas.
Casting with air.
We're in the Bahamas finally.
I just wanted to go bucket list.
Not on this plane.
Yeah.
New.
Those that witnessed his descent said he did fairly well.
But I guess it's all relative because court documents show that over $600,000 in damages
were done related to the destruction of the aircraft and other equipment.
Wow.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
This plane was said to have been running low on fuel at the time of his crash landing on
the island.
Turns out it might be a little harder to push the fuel gauge when you're piloting a plane
as opposed to sort of just, you know, coasting downhill in neutral in a car.
Doesn't.
Can't use that same tactic.
No, you shouldn't different, different things.
Yeah, different things.
I mean, you can technically, but then he did it.
Yeah.
Sure did.
I did it.
Did you die?
Exactly.
Very nearly sometimes.
This one sounds like it was smoother.
He was learning.
He still didn't hurt anyone though, did he?
No.
Okay.
So didn't, you know, refuel.
I mean, it's kind of hard to refuel a plane that you've stolen.
Right.
That's true.
So there's that.
Also, he could be, you know, like me where it's red.
It's fine.
I'll get there.
Yeah.
It's fine.
You just pray to whatever other worldly being you believe in.
That's right.
Get there.
I pray to all of the gods, the old and the new.
It wasn't long before the FBI began officially working with Bahamian authorities to try to
track Colton down.
He quickly resumed his habit of frequent burglaries.
Because.
What else is he going to do?
I know.
Old habits die hard.
He doesn't have any stuff.
Exactly.
He broke into a restaurant with a crowbar, later sneaking across the dock to steal a boat
to make his way to the Alutra and Harbor Islands.
Where he totally chilled out.
Just kidding.
Obviously not.
I don't see that for him.
He has zero chill.
At the Harbor General Store owner Ruthie K. allowed him to plug in his laptop and use the
Wi-Fi.
Very nice.
Because he was like, I don't have any money.
And she was like, that's fine.
He's like, are you sure?
And she's like, take the yes, dude.
And she even offered him a sandwich.
And he was like, again, zero dollars, zero cents.
And she was like, again, take the yes.
She's definitely like a mom energy.
Yeah.
You know, I'll take the sandwich too.
I know.
She said that like many Islanders, when she learned about his background, she truly didn't
want him to get caught.
Wow.
Okay.
Well, she reflected on her own experience as a single mother of three and really felt
for a kid that didn't seem to have the same family support system that she'd had.
Yeah.
I could see that.
Yeah.
I mean, she had people to back her up.
And you know, she talks about it really briefly in the documentary, but she was like, it
was such the other end of the spectrum from people that were like wishing him dead.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like, wow.
Okay.
So maybe the energy is a little bit better on a tropical island.
Who would have thought?
He's still a kid.
I mean, at this point, by the time he lands in the Bahamas, he is 19.
But you're still a kid.
Very much a kid.
Yeah.
Your brain is not what fully formed until you're like 26 or 25 or 25.
Yeah.
Plus, he's also been literally living on the run for multiple years.
I mean, going on three years at this point.
Wow.
It's a lot.
He's not really thinking super clearly for a lot of reasons.
Yeah.
You know?
On the islands, he was doing anything but lying low.
So again, not thinking super clearly.
In fact, he was trying to attract attention if anything, telling those nearby on the island
docks.
He was just bought and around.
He said, call the cops.
Frankly, he was bored and he wanted to be chased.
So he's like egging the locals on.
Some of the locals would prove happy to oblige.
Ten or 12 of one of the witnesses' friends on that very dock showed up and gave chase after
Colton from there on the water.
There was a reward posted for him at this point.
So that kind of figures.
They're like, yeah, we'll take free money to track this kid down.
And that whole situation, but did they know who Dini he was?
They did.
Yeah, no, they were aware of the reward.
So they were like, who Dini Ness?
Yeah.
The man captaining the boat, chasing the team, said that Colton had some serious skills behind
the wheel.
And that's saying something because that particular man, he'd been behind the wheel of a boat all his
life.
I mean, you live on an island that's right.
I mean, it's like a part of the culture, but he had also in back received some formal training.
So I think, you know, he did this professionally.
So he's like, yeah, no kids got skills.
A kind of wild.
It kind of like feels like a waste.
Like he could have done something, a boat rider, a pilot, a car driver.
I don't know.
Something.
Obviously he was good at stuff.
Yeah.
Definitely.
Just utilizing it in the wrong way.
Yeah, not really applying those skills in the best way possible.
Yeah.
Apply yourself.
But do it correctly.
Yeah.
In any case, Colton was able to get away from the group of villagers hoping to collect
on the cash reward.
He's literally, I think that's where the Houdini thing makes sense.
He just escapes every fricking time.
You know, until he doesn't.
Yeah.
Spoiler.
Just like Houdini.
You escape until you don't.
Yeah.
Happens of the most.
In response to Colton's audacious arrival, chief inspector Moss of the Harbor Island Police
mounted an operation aimed at finally arresting Colton.
Good luck.
Well, he organized his on-duty officers and even called in those that were off-duty.
He was like, this bitch is not getting off this island.
A Harbor Island security guard spotted him at about midnight.
So I'm given to understand this is the same day that he was basically being chased by
the locals on the water.
There's surveillance footage of Colton sprinting along the docks.
Well, presumably.
I think there's some actual footage and some reenactment in this dock, obviously.
So I don't know if the clip that I was referring to where you see him sprinting across the docks
is real or if that's, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But anyways, phenomenal.
Either way, love it.
I love it.
I think they have some real footage from him like in the Bahamas and I don't know if that's
part of it.
It's hard to tell.
Anyways, I'm getting lost.
I'm getting lost.
Get lost in the docks.
Run, below and Jordan's socket, both boat captains heard that the barefoot bandit was spotted
near the boats belonging to them and many others and they're like, we should probably
go check out our boats.
Yeah.
The pair essentially joined in on the high speed pursuit on the water because they were
concerned that without support, the local law enforcement team might lose the team
who Dini yet again.
I mean, that's a fair assumption.
Yeah.
Even with all of that pre-approved overtime.
Eventually, Colton was cornered on a sand bar at which point over the loudspeakers of the
neighboring boats.
He was being told he had nowhere to go.
You guys aside from a kind of sad and likely neglectful childhood, this is where the story
kind of takes a dark turn.
After a dramatic high speed boat chase in the Bahamas, Colton puts a gun to his head, saying
he's going to kill himself.
He can't go back.
At the same time, he's also got his back turned to the wheel and the controls and they
can tell at least one of the boat captains are like, he's slowly maneuvering himself off
the sand bar.
So he's like steering the boat from behind himself?
Yeah.
Wow.
He's getting off a sand bar.
Holy shit.
I know.
I'm like, I wonder, I feel like there was a part of him that did kind of feel like he's
kind of at a breaking point, but I feel like part of him thought, all of their attention
is going to be sort of on me, but in a different way by sort of saying those things.
I don't know.
I wasn't there, not in his head, but that's what I was.
He's given it another shot though.
He was still trying to escape.
I know.
He's like always being maneuvering.
Thankfully, in the end, he did surrender without anyone being seriously harmed.
Oh, okay.
I was worried.
I know.
It gets a little scary there for a minute.
The documentary has footage of Colton being transported in a bulletproof vest.
Mind you, still barefoot back to the United States.
Wow.
Which is, it's a strange thing to see someone wearing a bulletproof vest and barefoot.
Did they think people would try to assassinate him?
Is that why he was wearing a vest?
I think it's fair to say that yes.
I think it's fair to say that they didn't want to take that risk.
And honestly, I think in cases where particularly, I mean, the FBI is involved.
It's high profile enough that they cannot or they don't want to run the risk of while
he's in custody, anything, any harm befalling him.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a major issue if someone is harmed or, you know, worst case killed in custody.
Right.
You know, definitely see what you're saying though about like him being shoeless and bare
oble at professed.
Yeah.
It's a very, I don't know.
It's a stark contrast.
It's sort of strange.
But in 2012, Colton Harris Moore was sentenced to seven years in a Washington state prison
after pleading guilty to bankburg, Larry, interstate transportation of a stolen aircraft, interstate
and foreign transportation of a stolen firearm, being a fugitive in possession of a firearm,
piloting an aircraft without a valid airman certificate, and interstate transportation
of a stolen vessel.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's it.
Well, I think it's multiple instances of each in some cases.
He'd previously been charged in absentia in the island county juvenile court with counts
related to his 2008 to 2010 crime spree.
He was also charged in the San Juan Superior Court in October 2009, which is when his arrest
warrant had been issued.
Wow.
That sentencing US district judge Richard A. Jones noted that Harris Moore had endangered
others with his, quote, "reclist conduct and a host and variety of poor choices."
Yeah.
And apparently the judge had just sense of humor.
The judge told him it was time for a new life flight plan.
Ha.
Nicely done.
Seriously, though.
Yeah.
Judge Jones ordered that Mr. Harris Moore's federal sentence be served concurrent with the
87-month sentence imposed in island county Superior Court December 16, 2011, and also ordered
that the federal sentence be served consecutive to the juvenile sentence that Mr. Harris
Moore escaped from in 2008.
So lots, lots of sentences.
Yeah.
I don't know that there's any part of that that I want to pick apart and say I don't like
or, you know, I feel like it's, I mean, gosh, it seems fair.
For once.
Yeah.
It was kind of fair.
I feel like it seems like it struck a balance between, you know, obviously punishing in a way
that sort of, well, this next part explains how we sort of try to, in a way, prove it
and create some sort of balancing of the scales in terms of the debt to society and his victims.
So.
Okay.
Interestingly, he agreed to sell the rights to his life story for $1.4 million to 20th
century Fox to help pay restitution to his victims, which just right off the top, we've
got $150,000 aircraft that he stole from Bob Rivers.
We've got another one that he crash landed in the Bahamas.
There was 600,000 or more in damage just to that.
So you're up to like three quarters of a million dollars just from those two.
Wow.
Yes.
So it probably didn't even cover it.
I have to imagine that he's probably paying some restitution.
Hard to say.
I feel like.
I hope so.
Yeah.
Like the barefoot bandit nickname and insists that what he did wasn't fun.
It was just survival.
Okay.
But some of your actions seem to scream otherwise like signing it.
Yeah.
And there's a lot of actions that he took that aren't strictly speaking survival.
You're not stealing baby formula.
So maybe he grew up a little bit and a little bit.
Oh, well, maybe that was just my kid brain being an idiot.
Yeah.
It's hard to say.
I do have some information coming up that I think will maybe shed a little bit of light.
But I don't know that we get a clear indication of like what the Colton of today maybe would
think.
But he studied aeronautical engineering in prison and his future dream is to design planes.
As of 2022, Colton has remained reclusive with his whereabouts largely unknown.
Colton's lawyer, John Henry Brown, would state Colton wants people to know that he does
not like the attention and that what he did was not fun at all.
When he was captured on July 13th, 2010, Colton Harris more was just 19 years old.
Damn.
And upon his release from the Washington State Department of Corrections, Colton Harris
more was transferred from his prison cell to Reynolds work release in Seattle.
There is a picture of him while he was working there.
And I was like, I know exactly where that building is because you can see out the window.
And I'm like, I know where that is.
Anyways, where he reportedly worked for his lawyer, John Henry Brown, and was required
to check in and out of the work release facility.
So what do you think?
Was Colton a misguided wayward youth with thrill seeking tendencies or a reckless criminal
who let his addiction to adrenaline spiral out of control?
I feel like a little bit of both.
I, my next one, maybe two things can be true.
Yes, I think so.
Yeah.
It does sound like he changed.
Yeah.
Just from the little pieces of information.
And he's free, obviously, now.
Yes.
And nothing has come of that.
So hopefully.
I do have a very short little Patreon bonus mini-sode where we can talk about some other
things that happened around the time of his release and just prior to his release.
And then maybe I'll go ahead and link you to his LinkedIn.
Oh, okay.
Very interesting stuff.
But for now, should we do some tarot?
Yeah, let's do some tarot.
Just some tarot.
Two of them.
Okay, we're doing some tarot.
Shufflin'.
Houdini.
Okay, I'll give these back to Caitlin so she can draw a car.
Okay, me.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
I don't know.
I don't know about this.
Okay, it's the 10 of swords.
I'm going to let you...
Woo, we haven't gotten this one.
We haven't.
No.
It's a tennis sword and it's a ram or what is this?
I think so.
Like a ram school that's kind of close to a lamb.
Oh, ram lamb.
Ram a lamb.
So it's a ram school with like bones behind it in the desertish area, maybe sand.
Yeah.
Could be the beach.
Could be the Bahamas.
We don't know.
Well, it is a PNW deck, so I feel like it's probably more of a desert.
Yeah.
But I'm like, it could represent the Bahamas.
Hey, kid.
Oh, my goodness.
Okay.
Yeah.
And as I recalled, the imagery on the traditional deck is just as dark.
Yeah.
This is such a cool card.
It is.
Yeah.
Okay.
The three words are exhaustion, giving up betrayal, pain and sadness.
Wow.
Definitely all of those things.
All of those.
The dad giving up on him.
Well, but well, and then at the end, I think he kind of has to eventually just give up.
Yeah.
Exhaustion.
Well, he said he was like bored too.
He was like, yeah.
Yeah.
And many decks, the ten of swords depicts a man lying on the ground with ten swords stuck
in his back.
Ouch.
Yeah.
Understatement of the year.
Tens represent the end of a cycle and the start of a new one.
Therefore this card symbolizes an end to the suffering and sadness you've endured.
Just in time for you probably couldn't stand much more.
That really makes me think of right before he was actually captured in the Bahamas.
Yeah.
Okay.
There's a little bit more island energy in this card than I thought.
Wow.
You were right.
Usually am.
Yeah.
Your trials and tribulations are ending, but you still need to clear away the dead wood before
you can move ahead.
Huh.
Which that's also like kind of a beachy thing.
That is interesting.
But then you also like he camped and stuff in the forest and you put this nice wood block
out.
Yeah.
Okay.
Extreme stress and worrying have exhausted you.
Perhaps leading to an illness.
Oh my god.
Okay.
Well, that's going to be significant.
That's we're going to talk about that.
I think in the Patreon mini so actually.
Oh, okay.
Let the storm his past and the clouds will open up again.
Like in the sky in the sky.
That's where they hang out.
Make a clean break from the past to alleviate pain and suffering.
In a reading about money, you may need to cut your losses.
Let go of possessions and or separate yourself from a past financial matter.
Ooh.
Like when you left that sack of money behind.
That is a really good example.
I'm also thinking of specifically selling the rights to his life story.
Oh, yeah.
That too.
Tyoplus ends the move forward with the new found insights.
You've gained from a painful situation.
Yeah.
And there it is.
I feel like he definitely had a clean break from it too.
It's like once you get caught and put in prison, like you can't really go back.
Yeah.
I mean, that's yep.
So, if you're a person who's not in prison, you can't really go back.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm not going to go back.
This 10 can represent backstabbing so be on guard.
That's really interesting because I just think of him with his back to like the wheel and
the control.
Oh.
Sneaky, sneak.
I was going to ask did anyone like betray him?
I mean, I don't think that there was anyone close to him that really, that there was a representation
of betrayal in that respect.
Do you study specifically?
A partner at one point.
Yeah.
Like, way younger.
They just parted ways.
I don't think there was anything to that.
I mean, he was kind of stabbing himself in the back a little bit.
In a reading about love, the upright 10 represents exhaustion after a period of hardship
in a relationship.
Sometimes it signifies betrayal or it may represent the strain of caring for a loved one through
an illness.
Oh, my God.
Mini-sowed.
Holy shit.
That also just makes me think of his mom who is still cared for him from afar and wanted
him to have the bullet proof fest.
Yeah.
Oh.
I mean, he kind of had a mental illness.
I mean, if you're doing something like that, you're not completely healthy in your brain.
Well, and it does sort of remind me of a story that his mom told that I mean, kind of early
on in the days of him sort of Robin Hooding in the forest, if you will, the cop showed up
and they were like, ma'am, was he here?
And she was like, yeah.
And they're like, why didn't you call us?
And she's like, he was hungry.
So I made him breakfast.
And she talks about how she makes her hash browns from scratch and and and and and and and
she was like, he's my kid.
If he shows up hungry, I'm still going to feed him.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, they could definitely have charged her with like eating and abetting, but she
was like, go ahead.
Oh, I'm glad they didn't.
Yeah.
That's kind of if that's a tough one.
Yeah.
I think at that point, his crimes just hadn't escalated to a level where they were going to
push that.
But yeah, but that's a tough one.
Yeah.
And if a relationship ends, you may look forward to starting over and being free from the troubles
of the past.
Mini-sode.
Also definitely general vibes from the case as a whole, but yeah, holy shit, holy shit.
Wow.
It's, yeah, that's crazy.
Because even though he went to jail, it still feels like a better option than living the
way he was living.
Yeah.
I mean, I just don't think you can do that long term.
That's, it's certainly not sustainable.
No.
That's the whole vibe of this card is.
Yeah.
Doing something that's not sustainable.
It's just draining you.
That's true.
Yeah.
I think that's a really good, like sort of premise that you locked on to with that.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Look at you.
You little witcher bitch.
Yeah.
I think that's all that I see.
I don't have any extra excerpts.
We do have our little Patreon mini-sode, which I have to say now after the terror reading,
I'm super excited to get into and there's some wild stuff.
There's some wild stuff.
It gets, it gets kind of weird.
Okay.
I like weird.
I think it might get into a little bit of a weird territory that will be interesting for
you.
Okay.
Is there a high strangeness involved?
Little bit.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Is the Mothman involved?
No, I mean, not that strange.
Yeah.
Sorry about that.
I do what I can, but I can't make the Mothman be involved.
I mean, he seems to be involved in everything.
A lot.
He's got a little Mothy tentacles.
Tentacles.
His little Mothy and Tennis and everything.
Tentacles and Tennis.
They have same thing.
And Tennis.
Well, I think that's it.
There was no extra excerpts.
I know.
No.
I do too, but the extra excerpt is literally the Patreon bonus mini-sout now.
So what are you going to do?
I also just like glanced at the recording clock and it's at 11/11.
Ooh.
Okay.
Just saying.
Well, should we get out of here?
Let's do it.
We have things to do, places to see.
Dead people to walk over.
Yep.
This is fine.
I agree to this.
Reluctantly, but you did.
What are you going to do?
Anyways, I guess have a creepy ass day.
We'll see you next Tuesday.
Unless I die at the cemetery.
Unless you Houdini away from us and we never see you again.
Please don't.
We like you.
You know, if I Houdini away, I would also like to go to a tropical island.
Yes, find us in the Bahamas.
I'd like for us to be a very well-funded production that can record remotely.
I'm sure they have from Bali.
I'm sure they have cemeteries and tropical places too.
They definitely do.
I'll have somewhere to hang out.
I can.
Okay.
Deal.
Bye.
Here's the thing.
If you...
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Okay.