The Rooftop Robber: The Wild Story of Jeffrey Manchester
Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast
Moms got ya covered-feed
4.6 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | He escaped prison by hiding under a truck, lived for months inside a Toys R Us, and somehow convinced a church full of people, and a girlfriend, that he worked for the government. |
| 0:10.6 | His name was Jeffrey Manchester, but the world knew him as Roofman. |
| 0:14.6 | And this story? Well, it's one you couldn't make up if you tried. |
| 0:24.8 | Thank you. you couldn't make up if you tried. Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, |
| 0:30.6 | Mandy and my dear friend Melissa. |
| 0:32.2 | Hi, Melissa. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi, Mandy, how are you? |
| 0:34.5 | I am doing wonderful. |
| 0:36.7 | Mandy, I have a question. |
| 0:39.8 | Do you have, it goes with this episode. It's not really about random, but do you have movies or something that you want your kids to |
| 0:45.0 | watch with you that they haven't or they will watch with you? Is there like one that sticks out to you? |
| 0:52.6 | Obviously, I have a story about this because that's |
| 0:54.7 | such a random question. I know. I'm like, well, this must be going somewhere. Wouldn't it be great if it |
| 0:59.7 | wasn't? And I was just like, oh, I don't. Cool. No, well, no, I don't know. I mean, we do sit down and |
| 1:07.7 | watch movies like as a family, but, you know, I, I don't know. |
| 1:11.9 | I've always been that kind of parent that, like, just doesn't like kid movies. So I don't only sit down and watch a lot of kid movies. There's a few that have grabbed my attention that I've, like, enjoyed, like, cartoon movies. Oh, I don't mean that at all. I mean, what's one that you love and you've allowed your kids to watch or like you've convinced them? |
| 1:30.4 | Oh, I've forced them to watch the Wizard of Oz with me numerous times. Yeah, obviously. And I'm a huge Wizard of Oz fan. I actually just made my whole family watch it with me like two nights ago. Are you a Wicked fan? Because that's like all the video. No, that's the crazy part. I'm not. |
| 1:44.9 | My daughter doesn't like Wizard of Oz, but she loves Wicked. |
| 1:47.4 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:48.6 | See, well, put us together and we have one complete fan. |
| 1:52.4 | A brain. What is that? The Tin Man? No. |
| 1:54.3 | No, that's the scarecrow. |
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