UM Cases Where Women Helped Male Inmates Escape

[Thiussat]

Considering we have this saga going on right now where a female corrections officer helped a murder suspect escape from jail, I was wondering if there are any UM episodes where this happened?

I know about Bobbi Parker running off with Randolph Dial (wasn't a prison break, they just drove away from her house). But I swear I remember a UM case where a female corrections officer actually helped a male inmate escape from prison. Am I imagining it?

Thanks.

[Jon]

Originally Posted by Thiussat

Considering we have this saga going on right now where a female corrections officer helped a murder suspect escape from jail, I was wondering if there are any UM episodes where this happened?

I know about Bobbi Parker running off with Randolph Dial (wasn't a prison break, they just drove away from her house). But I swear I remember a UM case where a female corrections officer actually helped a male inmate escape from prison. Am I imagining it?

Thanks.

Kay Beeman was a prison guard who helped Edgar Kerns escape -
https://youtu.be/AYOO6SbkEcY?t=2298

There's a couple of other cases I can think of, but the women who helped the inmates were not prison guards:

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jon_Yount
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com...hard_Cepulonis

[dynoguy88]

Kay Beeman...

That segment is extra nuts once you find out that she had dated two inmates at the prison she worked at when they were released, only to move on romantically with an inmate at a separate prison and get engaged to him...for which she eventually dumped for a fourth inmate, Edgar Kerns, at the prison she worked at, helped him escape and ran away with him while still engaged to inmate #3.

She certainly had a type.

[SageSlowdive]

Originally Posted by dynoguy88

Kay Beeman...

That segment is extra nuts once you find out that she had dated two inmates at the prison she worked at when they were released, only to move on romantically with an inmate at a separate prison and get engaged to him...for which she eventually dumped for a fourth inmate, Edgar Kerns, at the prison she worked at, helped him escape and ran away with him while still engaged to inmate #3.

She certainly had a type.

Where do I sign up for that kind of life?

[Corkys-Place]

Originally Posted by Jon

Kay Beeman was a prison guard who helped Edgar Kerns escape -
https://youtu.be/AYOO6SbkEcY?t=2298

I felt very sorry for the Daughter in that segment. Beeman was beyond selfish. The re-enactment of Beeman and Dumbo being arrested in the Motel room was a bit woeful to say the least, lol.
This scenario is more common than people think. Prison Guards falling for inmates then turning very corrupt to help them escape.

There was a very dramatic incident of the same nature in Melbourne, Australia in 1993 which even led to a TV Movie about it in 1997 called "One way Ticket".

"In a story straight out of a TV show, Peter Gibb persuaded his lover, guard Heather Parker, to bring him explosives at the old Melbourne Remand Centre.
He and jailmate Archie Butterly blasted their way through a security window in March 1993, speeding off in a getaway car before switching to a stolen motorbike, which they crashed.
After a police shootout, they fled with Parker to the bush, before hiding out at Gaffneys Creek Hotel in northern Victoria, which burned to the ground.
Three days later, they were cornered, with Butterly killed in the shootout — reportedly by his accomplice. Gibb was later released from jail, dying of natural causes in 2011."

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...6b34048c53a28c

[TheCars1986]

At least Kay stayed with Kerns until she passed away.

[dynoguy88]

Originally Posted by Jon

There's a couple of other cases I can think of, but the women who helped the inmates were not prison guards:

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Jon_Yount
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com...hard_Cepulonis

Looking back on the Jon Yount segment, I think it was told from the wrong perspective. Diane Brodbeck selfishly abandoned her family for a man who kidnapped, raped and slit the throat of a teenage girl, Pamela Rimer. The family took her back and now look back on that time period with pretty much a laugh - that time Grandma went nuts and ran away for a while. There were very little consequences for Brodbeck's actions.

Meanwhile, Pamela Rimer's mother, LaVonne, suffered her own personal hell for the last four decades of her life. With her husband also gone and her son dying in a farm accident, she was all alone. Her only purpose left in life was to make sure Jon Yount stayed behind bars. She had a quote in the newspapers that was absolutely heartbreaking...

"I have nothing, no children, no grandchildren. No one calls me to say, "How are you Mom?" My life has been over since then.' 'What he (Yount) did just didn't end my daughter's life; it ended my life and my husband's life."

LaVonne Rimer should have been the main focus of the segment, with her thoughts, her input, her memories. Not the Brodbecks and Diane's stupid jailhouse romance with Yount. Even an update quote from LaVonne would have been nice once the couple were captured.

[1990 UM fan]

Kay Beeman and Edgar Kerns
Diane Brodbeck and Jon Yount
Karen Walters and Richard Cepulonis
Donna Moses and Michael Wayne Brown
Bobbie Parker and Randolph Dial

Those are five I can think of at the top of my head.