Jeffrey Allen Manchester was born on 1971 and is an American convicted spree-robber and former United States Army Reserve soldier known as the 'Rooftop Robber' or simply 'Roofman' due to his modus operandi of entering his targets by drilling through the roof and dropping in.
10 Facts About Jeffrey Manchester
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Jeffrey Manchester attended high school in Rancho Cordova, California before enlisting in the US Army.
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Jeffrey Manchester served in the 82nd Airborne Division where he learned rappelling, weapons handling, and other skills he would use during his robberies.
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Jeffrey Manchester married at age 20, but divorced in 1999 while serving at Concord Naval Weapons Station.
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Once Jeffrey Manchester believed normal activities had begun, he would storm out of the bathroom carrying a firearm and hold up employees before ushering them into the freezer, locking them inside while he robbed the cash registers.
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Jeffrey Manchester, who had earlier parked his car in a church parking lot, was spotted coming out of nearby woods to get to his vehicle by a police officer, and was later apprehended after fleeing back into the woods.
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Jeffrey Manchester was moved from several North Carolinian prisons before ending up in Brown Creek Correctional Institution in Polkton.
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Jeffrey Manchester spent a large amount of his time with Wainscott and her kids, bringing them toys he had pilfered from the store he lived at, and covering his seeming unemployment and homelessness with secretive whispers about a highly-confidential job for the government, saying his quarters were in a restricted office building.
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Jeffrey Manchester is currently serving his sentence at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, after originally serving at Marion Correctional Institute in McDowell County, North Carolina.
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Jeffrey Manchester's current expected release date is December 4,2036.