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Inmate, Warden's Wife Found 10 Years Later
By RICHARD GREEN, Associated Press Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY - A convicted murderer and a deputy warden's wife who disappeared nearly 11 years ago have been found living together and raising chickens in Texas. The woman said she was held captive the whole time, staying with the killer out of fear her family would be harmed if she fled.

I was a little taken aback when I read the plight of this poor woman.

It seems year’s back her kidnapper was on Work Release from prison. He spent his time on Work Release at the house of the Warden, working with his ‘victim’ on her art project. The Warden states that the two did not seem overly friendly towards each other and was not too concerned to find a note from his wife saying she had gone to the store.

Later, his wife called to say she would be ‘gone for a bit’ and would explain later. Upon this bit of info, the Warden checked with the prison to see if the prisoner had come back to the prison for the evening. He had not.

There were a few more calls from the ‘victim’ and then “Poof”… nothing. How odd? Life moved on and the Warden was assigned to a new job in Oklahoma.

Here is the part I don’t get.

Apparently, the escaped convict and his ‘victim’ had settled down to a life of raising chickens. They had become very good at this, were just humming along, still running ‘a fowl’ of the law, and seemed for all purposes, to be just another happy couple. Albeit the prisoner was rumored to be a bit ‘hen pecked.’ They were very successful, were able to peck out a nice living, and continued to build on to their nest egg. In time, they ran several farms and were able to add several henhouses making the convict the cock of the walk. Well, he had walked away from prison and … okay, it’s a stretch.

So they were discovered after the story ran on “America’s Most Wanted” story on Breakfast Crooks. When freed at last, the victim originally said she would just stay at the farm and was quite content. Later, she realized she was a captive and really needed to go home to roost.

Man, this is one scrambled mess.

Still A Funny Story

Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch a standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity.

The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.

The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.

You're going to love this... NASA responded with a one-line memo --"Defrost the chicken."(True Story )