Hey everyone, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious. I like to think that I've heard it all.

Every bizarre headline, every wild true crime caper from the last couple of decades. But even I have to admit, this one caught me completely off

guard. Picture this, a guy who literally cuts holes through the roofs of McDonald's restaurants

and then climbs down into the kitchens to rob the unsuspecting workers below. Not once,

not twice, but over and over again. He'd wait until closing time,

and then he'd slip through the ceiling tiles like some kind of fast food phantom, and then he'd

clean the place out, cash drawers, safes, you name it. And then he'd put the workers in the freezer

to be found by the next shift coming in.

Legend has it he gave them their coats so that they'd be okay and was as polite as a robber could be.

But eventually police caught him and he went to prison.

And then he escaped.

That's right. This guy nicknamed the hamburger by some reporters broke himself out of jail.

And if you have never heard this story before, you are not alone.

I hadn't either.

Because let's face it, if you're going to rob a McDonald's by cutting through the roof,

that is not just crime.

That is cinema, my friends. But I'll bet you know about it now. Because the silver screen is giving this story the Channing Tatum treatment. The movie is called Roofman, but the real guy was Jeffrey Manchester. When he was captured for the robberies back in 2000, North Carolina put him away for 45 years.

That was a 45-year sentence he was facing.

So, yeah, he wasn't too keen.

And four years into it, just four, he escaped.

And he decided to lay low in a Toys R Us store in Charlotte. And when I say lay low, he actually lived in that Toys R Us store for months on end.

He ate snacks from the shelves, Eminem's, baby food, the kind of thing you'd find at Toys or Us.

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