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  • Escaped robber returns to annals of weird crime -- Cops say 'Roofman' lived large in store

    01/11/2005 1:30:39 PM PST · by SmithL · 15 replies · 1,471+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/11/5 | Demian Bulwa, Charles Burress
    The slick-as-fry-oil robber known as "Roofman," a former Army reservist in Concord who drilled and dropped into fast-food joints from the Bay Area to Massachusetts, is back behind bars with another whopper of a saga. His downfall this time? A woman. By day, Jeffrey Manchester's spent his six months on the lam as a generous churchgoing volunteer known as John, who gave toys to kids and told his new girlfriend and church congregation that he had a secret government job, police said. At night, he was a fugitive hiding and playing in a Toys "R" Us, making his lair in...