384: This Serial Robber Escaped Prison Then Lived In A Toys R Us For Months
Mile Higher
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🗓️ 12 March 2026
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Intro 0:00
Jeff's Early Life 10:58
The Nicest Thief Ever? 13:38
How He Got Caught... The First Time 20:46
The Great Escape 31:15
A Ghost in Toy's R Us? 36:57
Take me to Church 50:02
Can't Help Falling in Love 52:21
Hubris or Addiction? 58:57
Escalation 1:04:17
The Second Conviction 1:09:56
Is Jeff a Bad Guy? 1:19:53
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:32:48
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what is up, everybody? |
| 0:17.8 | And welcome back to Mile Hard Podcast, episode 384. |
| 0:23.5 | Today we're covering a different kind of case. |
| 0:27.3 | We're talking about Jeffrey Allen, Manchester, the man, the movie, The Roof Man is based off of. |
| 0:37.0 | And maybe you've seen the movie. |
| 0:38.7 | Maybe you haven't. |
| 0:39.8 | I don't remember it really making a big splash when it came out. |
| 0:42.8 | Yeah, which is, it's really good. |
| 0:45.2 | I'm shocked I had never heard of it. |
| 0:47.3 | When did it come out? |
| 0:49.1 | 2025, like the fall of. |
| 0:52.2 | I don't know why I said it like that. 2020. Last year. Really? Yeah. Wow. That one blew right past me. I had no idea. It's great. Such a good movie. I'd watch it in. Starring Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Allen Manchester. One of the hottest man to ever live. Mans.. Kristen Dunst. Peter Dinklid. It was great to see Kristen Dunst and Pete, of course, but it's been a while since I've seen Kristen in anything. Yeah, I know, right? She was great. It was a great movie. Very entertaining. Yeah. So if you've seen that movie, you're especially going to like this episode because you already kind of know the general story behind Jeffrey. |
| 1:31.0 | But we're going into a lot of details. |
| 1:35.2 | And there was definitely some inaccuracies in the movie that they, that Hollywood changed to make it. |
| 1:40.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.4 | Hollywood, I guess. |
| 1:42.3 | It's what they have to do, you know. But honestly, they changed very little, in my opinion. Yeah. Hollywood, I guess. It's what they have to do, you know. |
| 1:44.2 | But honestly, they changed very little, in my opinion. |
| 1:48.1 | It was pretty accurate overall. |
| 1:51.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:52.1 | Some of the main points were, there's a lot, there's a couple little details, though. |
| 1:56.0 | Yeah, little details. |
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