The Barefoot Bandit: Catch Him If You Can

Chameleon

Audiochuck | Campside Media

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Colton Harris-Moore was just a teenager when he began breaking into homes across the Pacific Northwest. But soon, he was stealing cars, boats... and then planes. This is the unbelievable true story of a kid outrunning the cops to become one of the first folk heroes of the internet age.

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0:00.0	Camusite Media.
0:05.1	Hello?
0:06.2	What is, so, what do you want me to say?
0:08.6	Oh, it's just my.
0:10.4	Camelian.
0:11.3	Camelian Weekly.
0:12.8	Oh.
0:15.0	Jackson Holtz was a young journalist in 2007, living in the suburbs, chasing scoops, when an unusual piece of paper landed on his
0:23.3	desk. I was the local crime reporter for the Everdale Herald. It's the newspaper record for
0:30.0	Snohomish County, which is about a half hour north of Seattle. And I got a press release from the
0:37.3	Island County Sheriff. And what was unusual got a press release from the Island County Sheriff.
0:39.5	And what was unusual about this press release is it kind of was an old-fashioned wanted
0:43.8	poster, and the person who was wanted was a teenager, actually two teenagers.
0:49.2	One of them was Colton Harris Moore.
0:51.9	And he was wanted for a series of burglaries on Camano Island.
0:56.1	Camino is a beautiful place, a densely forested island in Puget Sound, populated mostly by
1:01.7	weekenders who buy vacation homes with wood-fired hot tubs on its fir-tree-laden shores.
1:06.8	They had released a mudshot, both boys, both Colton Harris Moore, and his then-accomplice,
1:13.6	a guy named Harley Davidson Iron Wing, named after the motorcycle.
1:17.6	And the two boys were suspected of breaking into vacation homes.
1:21.6	Both were known to cops from various run-ins.
1:24.6	And it was believed they were actually camping out.
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