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Podcast: Things I Learned Last Night
Episode: The Roofman | Lived in Toys R Us for a Year
Description: In the late 1990s, a man named Jeffrey Allen Manchester earned a strange nickname: the Roofman. His crime spree would go down as one of the most unusual and oddly polite series of robberies in American history. What started with a few break-ins quickly turned into a coast-to-coast pattern of fast-food heists, most often targeting McDonald’s restaurants.
The Roofman’s method was simple but clever. He would climb onto the roof of a McDonald’s near closing time, cut a hole in the ceiling, and wait quietly until the employees locked up. Then, he’d drop in throu...