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The Leavenworth Times
An inmate s escape 15 years ago from the Lansing Correctional Facility will be the focus of a report Friday night on Dateline on the NBC network.
The episode Breakout will air at 9 p.m. Friday and focus on the 2006 escape of John Manard.
Manard, who was serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, escaped with the assistance of Toby Dorr, who volunteered at the state prison as the president of a dog training program that involved inmates.
Manard escaped by hiding in a dog crate, which was loaded into a van driven from the prison by Dorr, who at the time went by the name of Toby Young.
Kansas prison escape story to air on Dateline: A dog crate, romance and a manhunt Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
Jun. 9 A Kansas prison escape that made international headlines after a convicted murderer quietly left Lansing Correctional Facility in a dog crate will be the subject of a segment on NBC s Dateline this Friday.
Fifteen years ago, Toby Dorr then known as Toby Young helped inmate John Manard break out of jail after a romance blossomed between them while she was working as the head of the prison s dog training program. She drove him off the grounds on Feb. 12, 2006, as he hid in the back of her white cargo van alongside several stray dogs.