![]() ![]() She was able to successfully carry John past prison walls confined in a cardboard box. She was ready to break out of her boring, loveless life and chase adventure and romance, no matter how much of an illusion it was. Toby withdrew $40k from her 401k, bought a truck, men’s clothes, and food supplies. #TOBY YOUNG DATELINE FULL#“At the time, I was so overwhelmed, so full of pressure that it sounded like a great idea, which was indicative of how broken I really was at that moment.” “You know, when John Manard suggested that maybe we should escape, I mean the first thing I thought of was ‘I can be relieved of all this duty.’ And so to me that was a breath of fresh air,” Dorr told KCS. When John Manard proposed breaking him out of prison, she was so broken and overwhelmed by her od life, that she was ready to break some rules. ![]() In fact, the reason she had so much freedom to hang out with John inside the prison is because she was a straight arrow that the prison officials trusted. ![]() She’d never had so much as a speeding ticket, never tried drugs, never did anything out of line. John told her that he could fit inside this box, and she could place it in a dog crate to get him out of prison. so he could fit in an 18-by-36-inch prisoned used to move when they changed cells. John took it seriously and started formulating a plan. Toby fantasized about life outside with John, and this led to a conversation about running away together. Because he was pretty broken, too,” Toby told the Kansas City Star in 2018. ![]() “I do think that John Manard loved me to the best of his ability to love anybody at that time. He told her he loved her and that her husband didn’t deserver her. Although they never touched except for accidentally brushing their hands together while handling dogs, he became the closest person in her life. Toby received from John the type of attention she never got from her husband. Whether or not it was sanctioned by the prison, soon Toby and John were spending all of Toby’s prison hours together. After that, Toby says the prison allowed John to be called to escort Toby whenever she arrived at the prison, kind of like a personal bodyguard, but the warden disputes this narrative. One day, John intervened when some other incarcerated dog handlers were harassing Toby. Toby believed him and thought he deserved a second chance in life. As they got to know each other, John told her that he wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger in the murder. The program was a success, and through it, Toby was able to facilitate around 1000 adoptions.Įventually, John Manard, who was serving a life sentence for the 1996 killing of Donald England during a carjacking when he was 17, walked up to Toby and asked to be her dog handler. Everyone could come to pet the dogs in the common area, and prisoners with good behavior could temporarily house them in their cells, which was no doubt therapeutic for the prisoners. Through the program, prisoners helped prepare shelter dogs for adoption. Toby started the Safe Harbor Prison Dogs program at Kansas’ Lansing Correctional Facility. It was a fresh start, but her life was going to be changed in ways she never imagined. She’d found a new lease on life by watching a show called Cell Dogs on Animal Planet, and decided to make rescue prison dogs her new mission in life. When Toby met 27-year-old murderer John Manard she 47-years-old, in an unhappy marriage, and had just recovered from thyroid cancer. On February 12, 2006, 48-year-old Toby Dorr had the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for her boyfriend: sneaking him out of prison in a dog crate. Friday night’s Dateline episode “Breakout” is a prison-break love story that involves rescue dogs. ![]()
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