Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace. Breaking Crime News now. A North Carolina woman on her way to work

see something move in her back seat and uncovers a shocking discovery. 75-year-old Marie Steinberg

finds 23-year-old Charles Babb hiding in her car one morning just before work. Bab, 23, recently escaped from

the Chowin County Detention Center. Good morning.

Jennifer Gould has the details. Nancy, talk about a backseat driver. Marie Steinberg got the

ultimate jump scare in Edenton, North Carolina when she went to unlock her car, around 7.30 in the morning. She was expecting a

routine drive to work, but instead found a literal jailbird nesting in her backseat. The

uninvited passenger was 23-year-old Charles Edward Babb, who had pulled a disappearing act from the Chowan County Detention

Center just the night before. And of all the houses in Edenton to end up at, he picked the home

of former state senator Bob Steinberg, who had pushed for prison reform during his ten years in politics.

Bab was not exactly blending in either.

He was still rocking his prison-issued orange jumpsuit and was cozied up under a blanket he

swiped from the Steinberg's garage loft.

This hitchhiker had escaped custody using a handheld, edged weapon to slice his way to freedom.

Instead, though, of a high-speed getaway, he decided to play hide-and-seek in Marie's unlocked car.

Rather than losing her cool, Marie used what she called her, quote-unquote,

mother act to keep the fugitive calm, chatting him up while he repeatedly apologized for being

freezing and famished. Marie spoke to W-A-V-Y-10 News.

I figured if I was nice to him, he'd be nice to me.

And I said, well, honey, let me go in and get you a coat.

The desperate con actually asked the 75-year-old if she had a phone, and where's the nearest McDonald's?

Where's it located?

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