# How To Free Your Man With a Helicopter: Nadine Vaujour

An episode of [Ridiculous Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1608230191), 17 Mar 2026, 52 min.

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Single mom Nadine Vaujour was something of a romantic. Which helps explain why it pained her heart so to be separated from her lover. It also helps explain why, one day, she decided it was time to spring her lover from the French prison where he was locked up. And to make her daring jailbreak plan work, she learned to fly a helicopter. Ah, the things we do for love! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio.
[0:03] Speaker 2: And there she is here. I am Elizabeth Dutton. Look
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[0:20] Speaker 2: Oh, sweet mother of Mercy, Yes.
[0:23] Speaker 4: Mother of pearl.
[0:25] Speaker 3: That's what I said to myself when I saw this,
[0:27] Speaker 3: and I thought, Ay, I love this so much. B
[0:30] Speaker 3: I don't have to do a mashup. I mean, I
[0:32] Speaker 3: guess I never really have to.
[0:34] Speaker 2: The cells of my body are singing in praise of
[0:37] Speaker 2: your choice.
[0:37] Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
[0:39] Speaker 5: So.
[0:39] Speaker 3: This is an email that we got from Rachel Hackenberg. Rude, dude,
[0:43] Speaker 3: Rachel Hackey what Rachel? And she wrote, dear ridiculous Crime team.
[0:48] Speaker 3: My brain derailed down a sidebar when Elizabeth described George
[0:52] Speaker 3: Parker as quote pouring a cocktail of hope for unsuspecting
[0:56] Speaker 3: marks in today's episode Welcome to America, suckers. What might
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[1:55] Speaker 3: And I sent it to my brother. I was like,
[1:57] Speaker 3: you guys should have this as a drink special and
[1:58] Speaker 3: then he blocked me.
[2:00] Speaker 4: But aside from that, like what the fifth time?
[2:02] Speaker 2: Now?
[2:03] Speaker 3: Yeah, I just got to change my phone number again.
[2:05] Speaker 4: Trick.
[2:06] Speaker 3: Anyway, the cocktail of the Brooklyn Bridge.
[2:09] Speaker 2: That is both ridiculous and damn.
[2:11] Speaker 3: So clever, so smart, and I love it. Thank you, Rachel.
[2:16] Speaker 2: Well, I'm just like over here all a flutter the
[2:19] Speaker 2: top that I cannot That was incredible, But I do
[2:22] Speaker 2: have something for you to sit back down. Okay, it's ridiculous,
[2:25] Speaker 2: I promise you that to borrow from former President George W. Bush.
[2:30] Speaker 2: There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas,
[2:33] Speaker 2: probably in Tennessee. But you know what, Elizabeth, I don't
[2:35] Speaker 2: know for certain because I just made this up. It says,
[2:38] Speaker 2: if at first you don't succeed crime crime again.
[2:41] Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you were going to go with the
[2:42] Speaker 3: whole foolm me once.
[2:44] Speaker 2: No, I couldn't do it all the way. I just
[2:45] Speaker 2: like the beginning. Yeah, so there you go. This is
[3:09] Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers. Heis
[3:15] Speaker 2: and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free and
[3:19] Speaker 2: one hundred percent ridiculous. Yes, Oh, Elizabeth Saren Today I
[3:27] Speaker 2: have a fun and very French crime story for you.
[3:31] Speaker 3: Nice.
[3:31] Speaker 2: It involves lovers, criminals, prison escapes. But first, before we
[3:36] Speaker 2: get into it, I have an amuse boush, a little
[3:38] Speaker 2: something to whet your appetite ye and get you in
[3:40] Speaker 2: the mood for more. Do you remember the story I
[3:43] Speaker 2: told you about my man Redon Fayid and his daring
[3:46] Speaker 2: helicopter escape from prison.
[3:48] Speaker 3: Yes, I totally remember that.
[3:49] Speaker 2: First I was there, Yeah, you were there, and just
[3:51] Speaker 2: I'm just Kida when you told the story, tickle your
[3:53] Speaker 2: memory cells anyway, because the gist is basically this. In
[3:56] Speaker 2: July of twenty eighteen, red'l Fayid was locked up in
[3:58] Speaker 2: a French prison when he and his crew they put
[4:01] Speaker 2: on this jail breake plan and they used a handheld
[4:05] Speaker 2: metal grinder and smoke bombs and they cut their way
[4:07] Speaker 2: through prison doors until finally they managed to escape to
[4:10] Speaker 2: like an inner courtyard of the prison. That's where a
[4:14] Speaker 2: helicopter was waiting for them as their fellow prisoners all
[4:17] Speaker 2: cheered them on. Right. Can you imagine that scene? The
[4:20] Speaker 2: jailbak crew escapes by a helicopter and they seek freedom
[4:23] Speaker 2: in the skies. Best part is they get away with it?
[4:26] Speaker 3: Yeah right, God bless.
[4:27] Speaker 2: Turns out that escape was one of many, and I
[4:30] Speaker 2: mean many French helicopter based prison escapes.
[4:36] Speaker 3: Is it like they're Jerry Lewis, like they love these things?
[4:39] Speaker 2: Apparently this is like number two after Jerry Lewis's helicopter
[4:43] Speaker 2: prison escape. Get like, oh we so cool, so cool,
[4:47] Speaker 2: so okay. Earlier years earlier, there was another French inmate
[4:52] Speaker 2: named Pascal Paller okay, and he managed to escape prison
[4:56] Speaker 2: not once, not twice, but three times using a all.
[5:00] Speaker 3: Three times with a helicopter.
[5:02] Speaker 2: He is the record for the most helicopter basis the
[5:05] Speaker 2: prison escapes. Okay, so in two thousand and one, Paye
[5:09] Speaker 2: he escaped from a French prison by a helicopter. Two
[5:11] Speaker 2: years later, in two thousand and three, he was still
[5:13] Speaker 2: living on the lamb, and again he decided to lead
[5:16] Speaker 2: a daring escape from prison via helicopter.
[5:19] Speaker 3: Oh wait, so he's on the lamby, it's caught.
[5:21] Speaker 2: Yes, no, no, no, no, he's on the lamb, does
[5:23] Speaker 2: not get caught, and he's like, I've got some friends
[5:25] Speaker 2: locked up inside.
[5:26] Speaker 3: I was like, what was he escaping from the lamp? Okay?
[5:29] Speaker 2: He goes back to the exact same prison that where
[5:31] Speaker 2: he had left as a fugitive, and he leads the
[5:34] Speaker 2: chopper Babe fend yes, and he's like he helps his
[5:37] Speaker 2: fellow prisoners escape. They're like from his crew, there are
[5:39] Speaker 2: three men who'd been arrested with him back in nineteen
[5:41] Speaker 2: ninety nine, which got him set up the first time.
[5:45] Speaker 2: And you know what, who says there's no honor among thieves,
[5:48] Speaker 2: there is amongst French thieves. Oh, because he went back
[5:51] Speaker 2: and freed his men a man behind. No, I mean,
[5:54] Speaker 2: you get out once at a prison escape with a helicopter,
[5:57] Speaker 2: like I can do it again, Let's do it.
[5:59] Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but that's that's a rule of the dice, right, Yeah.
[6:02] Speaker 2: Fortunately, three weeks later, Pascal Paier and his three recently
[6:05] Speaker 2: escaped comrades in crime. They were all recaptured. So he
[6:08] Speaker 2: gets tried, convicted, sentenced to return to prison. Okay, and
[6:11] Speaker 2: that's where you guessed it if you're paying attention. He
[6:14] Speaker 2: escaped again via helicopter. The year was two thousand and seven.
[6:18] Speaker 2: Paye coordinated a new and brazen helicopter escape. It started
[6:22] Speaker 2: with a hijacking where his accomplices were supposed to skyjack
[6:26] Speaker 2: a chopper, then force the pilot to fly to the
[6:28] Speaker 2: prison where Pascal Payer was locked up, and then they'd
[6:32] Speaker 2: free him. Keep in mind, by yay, he'd already escaped
[6:34] Speaker 2: once and then he helped coordinated. But I mean he
[6:38] Speaker 2: was in the prison grounds and left, so technically.
[6:40] Speaker 3: Since he was he was there, he went into the
[6:43] Speaker 3: second one.
[6:44] Speaker 2: He got his guys out risk at all. So at
[6:49] Speaker 2: this point, because he has had done these two daring
[6:52] Speaker 2: prison escapes, he's considered a detournent particular mont, which in
[6:57] Speaker 2: English means a high surveillance prisoner. Okay, right, so he's
[7:00] Speaker 2: kept in solitary confine exactly. It's like it's this crazy prison.
[7:05] Speaker 2: So but this doesn't stop Pascal Paye. Elizabeth, do you
[7:08] Speaker 2: know what day of the year they chose for their
[7:11] Speaker 2: third prison escape?
[7:12] Speaker 3: Please tell me? Best steel day?
[7:14] Speaker 6: Yes, right, the most fitting and some bold date to
[7:18] Speaker 6: break someone out of a French prison. That's so beautiful
[7:21] Speaker 6: and it's also it's really a brilliant move because it's
[7:24] Speaker 6: the day when nearly everyone in France had the day off,
[7:26] Speaker 6: and they're all busy celebrating this big national holiday. You know,
[7:29] Speaker 6: a lot of people are like out there just drunk
[7:31] Speaker 6: and revelry, and then people are filling the streets, so
[7:33] Speaker 6: it's like it's kind of chaos.
[7:34] Speaker 2: Right. So on this fateful Beastille day four of his
[7:39] Speaker 2: comrades in crime, they tug on masks, They hijack a
[7:42] Speaker 2: helicopter and it's pilot, and just like they'd all planned,
[7:45] Speaker 2: then they ordered the pilot to fly them to the
[7:46] Speaker 2: prison where Paye was being held. They safely land the
[7:49] Speaker 2: helicopter on the prison roof. It's evening time, just like
[7:53] Speaker 2: you know. At the almost the end of the shift,
[7:56] Speaker 2: three of the four masks men they hop out of
[7:58] Speaker 2: the chopper. One man stays behind, keep a gun trained
[8:00] Speaker 2: on their skyjacked pilot make sure he doesn't like up
[8:03] Speaker 2: and fly away. Now they use some heavy machinery the
[8:06] Speaker 2: prison heightst crew breaks into the prison. They break into
[8:09] Speaker 2: the prison. Once inside, they break through a bunch of
[8:11] Speaker 2: security doors until they reach the solitary confinement section of
[8:15] Speaker 2: the prison because that's where he's being held. Once there,
[8:18] Speaker 2: they quickly locate their man, Pascal by Ay, they free
[8:21] Speaker 2: him from solitary confinement. Then the men all rush back
[8:23] Speaker 2: to the prison roof where there is the waiting helicopter.
[8:26] Speaker 2: According to Maurice Barrette, who was a security official at
[8:29] Speaker 2: the prison, the operation took only five minutes. The layout
[8:32] Speaker 2: of the site did not allow the guards in the
[8:34] Speaker 2: tower to shoot at the helicopter or the men, so
[8:38] Speaker 2: once they were all loaded up, the hijacked helicopter pilot
[8:41] Speaker 2: flies the men roughly about thirty eight kilometers or twenty
[8:44] Speaker 2: three miles for Americans, to the town of Toulon, where
[8:47] Speaker 2: they are on the coast of the Mediterranean. Okay, Elizabeth,
[8:50] Speaker 2: because I know you worry. Yeah, hijacked helicopter pilot was
[8:53] Speaker 2: not harmed during the prison escape. They let him out,
[8:56] Speaker 2: They're like, you're good. She was scared totally. He had
[8:58] Speaker 2: a gun on them and the outside.
[9:00] Speaker 3: To crash physically hard.
[9:02] Speaker 2: And he was also in a helicopter. I mean, is
[9:04] Speaker 2: dangerous on their own.
[9:06] Speaker 3: True, he's going to carry that that emotional baggage.
[9:10] Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, that's trauma.
[9:13] Speaker 3: It is now.
[9:13] Speaker 2: Despite their genius approach and the serious commitment to Pasco
[9:17] Speaker 2: bay A, his prison highst crewed, it didn't take them
[9:19] Speaker 2: long to get tracked down. Just a few months later,
[9:22] Speaker 2: on September twenty first, the men were all caught and
[9:25] Speaker 2: captured together in a Maturo, Spain, which is a suburb
[9:29] Speaker 2: of Barcelona, so basically outside Barcelona. And that was the
[9:33] Speaker 2: last of his prison escapes. Yeah. Well all of those
[9:37] Speaker 2: were certainly creative, daring prison escapes. They were all copycat escapes.
[9:42] Speaker 4: Okay, those are all took place.
[9:45] Speaker 2: In the in the two thousand Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
[9:48] Speaker 2: Before Ridon is the last of this group, before him
[9:53] Speaker 2: doing two thousand and seven.
[9:56] Speaker 3: You'd think that, like the eighteen second one, they'd be like,
[9:59] Speaker 3: we were need to come up with some sort of deterrent.
[10:02] Speaker 2: Yeah, you would think, no, they do have helicopter netting.
[10:04] Speaker 2: That's what Mordon Fayid had to deal with. Y they
[10:06] Speaker 2: come up with helicopter nettings, like we've got to stop this. No,
[10:10] Speaker 2: So all these daring, brave helicopter escapes, they were all
[10:13] Speaker 2: copycats because each one there was a I guess escaping
[10:17] Speaker 2: from prison by helicopter became this very French thing. But
[10:20] Speaker 2: the first ever French prison escaped via helicopter took place
[10:24] Speaker 2: way back in nineteen eighty one.
[10:26] Speaker 3: I was I gonna say seventeen ninety.
[10:28] Speaker 2: No, no helicopters. I mean, technically, Leonardo da Vinci did
[10:32] Speaker 2: in bet helicopter, but it was never really put to anyway.
[10:36] Speaker 2: So there was these two inmates. They were being held
[10:38] Speaker 2: into Florie Maraghese prison in the suburb of Paris, is
[10:42] Speaker 2: about twenty five miles outside of Paris. The story goes
[10:45] Speaker 2: the two in mates were outside for some fresh air.
[10:46] Speaker 2: They were on a soccer field and that that was
[10:48] Speaker 2: on prison grounds, and they were in this middle of
[10:51] Speaker 2: a game. They're playing soccer right when all of a sudden,
[10:53] Speaker 2: this helicopter lands on the far edge of the field
[10:56] Speaker 2: in the prison right, the men knew it was coming,
[10:59] Speaker 2: so they also knew at this point it's go time.
[11:01] Speaker 2: So they just to go running over to the helicopter.
[11:04] Speaker 2: They're able to climb aboard flee into the skies well
[11:07] Speaker 2: before the prison guards because this is the first time
[11:09] Speaker 2: they've ever seen this. What is going on? And then
[11:13] Speaker 2: this first helicopter prison escape in French history is successful.
[11:17] Speaker 3: That's so insane, Like what I just think about what
[11:21] Speaker 3: was going through the other innates lies the guards It
[11:24] Speaker 3: was like, oh no, how do we explain that.
[11:27] Speaker 2: It was nineteen eighty one, So you do have this
[11:29] Speaker 2: history of skyjacking in the seventies, so people are like, oh,
[11:32] Speaker 2: that's a nice move.
[11:33] Speaker 3: When they took off, they I liked to think that.
[11:37] Speaker 3: I have to tell you, like, one of the one
[11:39] Speaker 3: of the times I've laughed the hardest is I was
[11:41] Speaker 3: driving and you were in my car and I kind
[11:43] Speaker 3: of pushed it and went through a yellow light that
[11:46] Speaker 3: was really stale, and you killed and like it was
[11:51] Speaker 3: crying laughing, and I thought I was gonna get into
[11:53] Speaker 3: an accent and stop laughing.
[11:55] Speaker 2: Well, you know, because before the French Republic, they had
[11:57] Speaker 2: a yellow flag so you see that.
[12:00] Speaker 3: Although it's kind of like it, it's I thought it was.
[12:03] Speaker 3: You couldn't beat my brother's thing of hitting a stale
[12:06] Speaker 3: yellow and going bumping at that. He always does, and
[12:11] Speaker 3: I thought that was hilarious. But now whenever I on
[12:14] Speaker 3: the off chance I push a stale yellow.
[12:20] Speaker 2: I had a friend he used to always instead of
[12:23] Speaker 2: saying hang a left or hang a right, you say
[12:25] Speaker 2: hang a hang a Rick, hang a Louis. So he
[12:27] Speaker 2: used the two characters from Casa Blanca as like left
[12:30] Speaker 2: and right. I always love that.
[12:32] Speaker 3: Were you that friend?
[12:33] Speaker 2: No, this is not me, Okay. So back to the
[12:37] Speaker 2: first ever helicopter prison escape in France nineteen eighty one. Successful,
[12:41] Speaker 2: but the freedom unfortunately Elizabeth short lived. The two inmates
[12:44] Speaker 2: and the rescuer who showed up with the helicopter had
[12:46] Speaker 2: hired the pilot right or hired the helicopter rather. They
[12:49] Speaker 2: were all arrested within a few months. Yeah, but as
[12:52] Speaker 2: it turns out, that first ever French prison escape via
[12:56] Speaker 2: helicopter was directly connected to the second ever helicopter escape
[13:00] Speaker 2: from a French prison, which does not involve any of
[13:03] Speaker 2: the people I've mentioned yet. Really, yes, because there was
[13:06] Speaker 2: this prisoner who was being held at that same prison
[13:09] Speaker 2: in Florie Merrighie. And when she heard about this daring
[13:12] Speaker 2: and successful helicopter escape, it stayed with her and you
[13:16] Speaker 2: could say it inspired her. It gave her ideas told.
[13:18] Speaker 3: The story in the evening.
[13:20] Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know the legends.
[13:22] Speaker 2: You know, sitting over somebody some burning sterno.
[13:26] Speaker 3: Telling stories with the ripe blue cheese, drink.
[13:30] Speaker 2: Some plumb toilet wine. So, Elizabeth, I'd like you to
[13:35] Speaker 2: meet Nadine the Jure. She's our anti heroine of the day.
[13:41] Speaker 2: Nadine was a criminal and also a bit of a
[13:43] Speaker 2: romantic because when she wanted to break her husband out
[13:46] Speaker 2: of a French prison, she recalled that soccer Field prison
[13:50] Speaker 2: escape via helicopter and she decided, oh no, that's will work.
[13:54] Speaker 2: And so she's the first person to do a copycat crime,
[13:57] Speaker 2: sort of like an homage, if you will. Who was
[14:00] Speaker 2: her locked up husband? Great questions?
[14:03] Speaker 3: Oh god, so I am I am on it today
[14:06] Speaker 3: on point you were like one step ahead of you completely.
[14:08] Speaker 2: Maybe two. Now. Her husband's name is Michelle Vajore. He
[14:12] Speaker 2: gave his name.
[14:13] Speaker 7: To her Michelle, and he was a career criminal, like
[14:16] Speaker 7: he was in and out of prison ever since his
[14:18] Speaker 7: first lock up when he was seventeen, He's mostly like
[14:21] Speaker 7: a small crimes guy, stick ups, and then he graduated
[14:24] Speaker 7: like robbing like vans, and and uh like banks and
[14:27] Speaker 7: stores and so forth.
[14:29] Speaker 3: Just vans, like people in parking lot.
[14:31] Speaker 2: Well like yeah, like delivery vans, and then later on
[14:36] Speaker 2: ice cream trucks and stoners and park surprise, give me
[14:40] Speaker 2: the bag. So this pair they married back in nineteen
[14:44] Speaker 2: seventy nine while both of them were locked up for
[14:46] Speaker 2: their crimes, I know, finding love love during lock up.
[14:51] Speaker 2: So before his wife broke him out, Michelle already had
[14:54] Speaker 2: multiple prison escapes to his credit. Oh yeah, he is scared.
[14:57] Speaker 2: I think he had like seven in his whole lifetime
[14:59] Speaker 2: of So that same year, nineteen seventy nine, when he
[15:03] Speaker 2: gets married to Nadine, Michelle had managed to escape police custody.
[15:07] Speaker 2: While he was brought into court. He smuggled in a
[15:10] Speaker 2: fake gun into court. The fake gun was a bar
[15:12] Speaker 2: of soap that he had carved and sculpted to look
[15:15] Speaker 2: like a handgun.
[15:16] Speaker 3: How big was this bar?
[15:18] Speaker 2: Is this a little like sho like a thirty eight
[15:22] Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know, yeah, but.
[15:23] Speaker 3: Just like the world's largest bar of soap he carved
[15:26] Speaker 3: like one of those dirty hairy guns.
[15:29] Speaker 2: Super long.
[15:29] Speaker 3: But then it was so long it's snapped.
[15:32] Speaker 2: It broke like some quick repair. Now it snubnose. So
[15:37] Speaker 2: at this point also I forgot to mention to finish
[15:39] Speaker 2: the look, he blackened the soap with shoe polish.
[15:43] Speaker 3: Like swirly Irish spring exactly or was it? Was it
[15:47] Speaker 3: some of that nice lavender like south of France.
[15:51] Speaker 2: That would be nice. So it smells nice like your
[15:54] Speaker 2: gun smells fantastic.
[15:56] Speaker 3: Thank you.
[15:57] Speaker 2: So with this opportune moment occurs when he's in court,
[15:59] Speaker 2: he hips out his fake bar of soap gun and
[16:02] Speaker 2: he demands nobody moved, nobody gets hot. That's just by version.
[16:07] Speaker 2: So he holds the judge hostage and he uses him
[16:10] Speaker 2: to escape the courtroom right now. When his wife Nadine
[16:13] Speaker 2: Vajour was still locked up inside, Michelle enjoyed life on
[16:16] Speaker 2: the lamp. So she's inside, he's outside because he escaped
[16:18] Speaker 2: from court. Yeah, he manages to stay free for two
[16:21] Speaker 2: whole years. During that time, he continues his criminal career.
[16:24] Speaker 3: Well what else is he going to do?
[16:26] Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, it's all though he knows Nelson doesn't want
[16:28] Speaker 2: to get caught on a factory floor. That's like actual
[16:30] Speaker 2: quote from him. Oh really, Yeah, he was kind of
[16:32] Speaker 2: an anarchist when he was young, but he also was
[16:34] Speaker 2: against work. So between the two things, he's like, I'm
[16:37] Speaker 2: political and exactly. So in nineteen eighty one, he gets
[16:43] Speaker 2: caught during an attempted bank robbery in Paris and he
[16:46] Speaker 2: sent back to prison. Of course, meanwhile, his wife Nadine
[16:49] Speaker 2: had become a mother while still in prison.
[16:51] Speaker 3: Oh how does that happen?
[16:52] Speaker 2: Well, the couple welcome their daughter, Betty, because remember they
[16:55] Speaker 2: got married in prison, so I think they were allowed
[16:56] Speaker 2: conjugal visits as my guess. Okay, so anyway, this changed
[17:00] Speaker 2: her thinking about if.
[17:01] Speaker 3: The hell goes on in a French prison.
[17:03] Speaker 2: European prisons are different than what we expect, that's all
[17:05] Speaker 2: I learned. Very yeah, but this is like they also anyway,
[17:09] Speaker 2: I won't get into it, but a lot of they're
[17:10] Speaker 2: being kept in like maximum security prisons. They just don't
[17:13] Speaker 2: sound like it to me.
[17:14] Speaker 3: No, not if you're getting married and then having babies,
[17:18] Speaker 3: baby and then like he takes it because I thought
[17:20] Speaker 3: maybe like he escaped and then came back for a
[17:23] Speaker 3: conjugal visit. No, I don't think it was.
[17:25] Speaker 2: No, I think it was in seventy nine when they
[17:26] Speaker 2: got married. I think they were allowed to have the
[17:28] Speaker 2: conjugal visit for the marriage ceremony and then boom, miracle baby.
[17:32] Speaker 3: I just okay.
[17:33] Speaker 2: So anyway, at this point, once the couple welcomes their daughter, Betty,
[17:36] Speaker 2: this changes her thinking. Nadine's thinking about her family's future,
[17:39] Speaker 2: and her thinking does not include prison.
[17:41] Speaker 3: Oh this is what makes a change.
[17:43] Speaker 2: Well, because by this point Nadine had also been in
[17:45] Speaker 2: and out of prison three times. She had charges for swindling,
[17:48] Speaker 2: receiving stolen goods, attempted robbery. Her final stint in prison
[17:52] Speaker 2: came about due to an attempted robbery in nineteen eighty three.
[17:55] Speaker 2: So she and her crew were in a town of
[17:57] Speaker 2: tours and they attempted a bank robbery, but the security
[18:00] Speaker 2: guards weren't having it. They get into a gunfight. Things
[18:02] Speaker 2: turned bad. Nadine was unharmed and she was prompaly arrested, tried,
[18:06] Speaker 2: but the charges weren't proved and she gets released from custody.
[18:09] Speaker 2: So this is nineteen eighty three, so she's on the
[18:11] Speaker 2: she's still the baby, single mom in it, but still
[18:14] Speaker 2: doing bank robberies, you.
[18:15] Speaker 3: Know, and he's still out there, tom Cat.
[18:18] Speaker 2: No, he's still he's locked up in eighty three.
[18:20] Speaker 3: Oh that's right, because he did two years.
[18:22] Speaker 4: So like, okay, god it So at this.
[18:24] Speaker 2: Point Nadine is like, I really need to get my
[18:26] Speaker 2: man back, right.
[18:27] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[18:27] Speaker 2: I don't know if she just wasn't into being a
[18:28] Speaker 2: single mother all by herself, or perhaps she just wanted
[18:31] Speaker 2: to break out her.
[18:31] Speaker 4: Partner she needed an owner, her co parent.
[18:34] Speaker 2: Yeah, or maybe she's just like a hopeless romantic was
[18:36] Speaker 2: willing to risk it off to Freehoman. I don't know,
[18:39] Speaker 2: but either way, in nineteen eighty six, she decides it's
[18:42] Speaker 2: time to make her move to break her husband Michelle
[18:44] Speaker 2: out of prison. But before we get into that, Elizabeth,
[18:47] Speaker 2: it was like a little break, Okay, enjoy some ads
[18:49] Speaker 2: and after these messages, we will take through these guys.
[18:52] Speaker 4: Viva all.
[19:14] Speaker 2: And we're back.
[19:14] Speaker 3: Yes we are.
[19:15] Speaker 2: So are you ready to take this bird up into
[19:17] Speaker 2: the clouds a frenchman?
[19:19] Speaker 3: You good?
[19:20] Speaker 2: Good? So the story goes. After her bungled bank robbery,
[19:23] Speaker 2: Nadine Bajur manages to escape justice to the charges don't
[19:26] Speaker 2: stick for her. Once again, as I said, this is
[19:28] Speaker 2: due to lack of proof, right, so she's released from holding.
[19:31] Speaker 2: This is nineteen eighty three and that was the same
[19:33] Speaker 2: time that Nadine and Michelle began to plan a prison
[19:36] Speaker 2: escape and they don't rush into it, so her husband
[19:38] Speaker 2: and lover he's locked up. The single mother Nadine is
[19:41] Speaker 2: putting her plan into action. So in order to shield
[19:44] Speaker 2: herself from her criminal past, she uses her maiden name
[19:47] Speaker 2: of Rego Rigo as a cover and she comes up
[19:50] Speaker 2: with a fake name of I am a Lena Rego.
[19:54] Speaker 2: So Lena enrolls in a flight school for helicopter lessons.
[19:58] Speaker 3: Oh she went there planning, not oh wow, And.
[20:01] Speaker 2: It didn't take her long to learn to fly. She
[20:03] Speaker 2: was a quick study, smart girl Nadine or Lena, and
[20:05] Speaker 2: she officially earns her pilot's license. But being a good
[20:09] Speaker 2: pilot wasn't good enough because based on their proposed escape plan,
[20:13] Speaker 2: she needed to be an excellent pilot. Sure, And so
[20:16] Speaker 2: for months she rents a helicopter she practices. She'd take
[20:19] Speaker 2: a chopper out for flights twice a month in order
[20:22] Speaker 2: to make sure that there was no paper trail that
[20:23] Speaker 2: pointed back to her. She always paid the three hundred
[20:25] Speaker 2: and fourteen dollars an hour rental fee in cash as
[20:28] Speaker 2: Lena Rigo, right, nobody's the wiser. Yeah, And once she
[20:32] Speaker 2: rents the helicopter, then she and she's skyborn and alone.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Nadine would practice the moves that she would need for
[20:37] Speaker 2: the proposed prison escape. She practiced holding the helicopter in
[20:40] Speaker 2: a steady hover. She mastered how to read the winds
[20:44] Speaker 2: so well that she could hold the helicopter steady in
[20:46] Speaker 2: a strong crosswind. Right, and this would be key because
[20:50] Speaker 2: you don't know what's gonna be going on the roof.
[20:51] Speaker 2: You can't have it like well, all of a sudden
[20:53] Speaker 2: you dip in that Basically, you need to keep the
[20:55] Speaker 2: nose of the helicopter almost motionless during this escape so
[20:58] Speaker 2: her husband isn't sliced into pieces by the hellicopter.
[21:00] Speaker 3: That's a good point.
[21:01] Speaker 2: And lastly, Nadine she practiced landing a helicopter in a
[21:05] Speaker 2: very tight space, like basically in a canopy of trees,
[21:07] Speaker 2: but on top of a prison roof.
[21:09] Speaker 4: Okay, so she.
[21:10] Speaker 2: Would like then be able to hold it in a
[21:11] Speaker 2: low hover regardless of the crosswinds. And then she also
[21:15] Speaker 2: mastered taking off and flying very low to avoid radar,
[21:18] Speaker 2: so she's like flying just over the rooftops of Paris.
[21:21] Speaker 3: Wow.
[21:22] Speaker 2: Yes, So over a six month stretch, Nadine becomes this
[21:25] Speaker 2: outstanding helicopter pilot. Yeah, talking like TC for Magnum p
[21:29] Speaker 2: I helicopter.
[21:30] Speaker 3: That's all I'm envisioning is that helicopter and her like
[21:33] Speaker 3: with a boombox playing the theme to Magnum while she
[21:37] Speaker 3: does this for inspiration.
[21:39] Speaker 2: You and me, both sisters.
[21:40] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[21:41] Speaker 2: So, now in France, I don't know if you know this,
[21:43] Speaker 2: but any person with a helicopter's pilot license can rent
[21:45] Speaker 2: a helicopter. And here's the kicker. They don't have to
[21:49] Speaker 2: file a flight itinerary. So like in America, when you
[21:52] Speaker 2: take off, you got to tell them where you're going,
[21:53] Speaker 2: and then that airport expects you and they're on the
[21:56] Speaker 2: radio talking to you. But you can just take a
[21:58] Speaker 2: rental chopper wherever you want. France apparently, Yeah, they don't
[22:01] Speaker 2: have to tell anyone where you're going, which just seems
[22:03] Speaker 2: kind of wild to me.
[22:04] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[22:04] Speaker 2: Anyway, Nadine, she feels ready to put their escape plan
[22:07] Speaker 2: into action. You know, it's time for the real deal,
[22:10] Speaker 2: save Michelle from prison. So on the Faithful Day Nadine.
[22:13] Speaker 2: She goes out to her flight school it's called the
[22:15] Speaker 2: School Saint Cyr Aerodrome, and she walks inside of a
[22:19] Speaker 2: helicopter rental agency. It's a place called air Compliment and
[22:23] Speaker 2: where she shows her helicopter license. She rents a chopper.
[22:26] Speaker 2: They're like, we don't need to know where you're going,
[22:27] Speaker 2: so good luck bring it back.
[22:30] Speaker 3: Can't she just say, like, I'm not going to a
[22:32] Speaker 3: specific place, I'm just going to tootle around.
[22:35] Speaker 2: That's the idea. Yeah, yeah, they don't even have to
[22:37] Speaker 2: like tell them, like which direction you're planning on tootling
[22:39] Speaker 2: at first.
[22:39] Speaker 3: I think you can do that with a helicopter here.
[22:41] Speaker 3: I think you can just go up toodling's I don't know.
[22:44] Speaker 2: I have no idea. I had a friend who got
[22:46] Speaker 2: a helicopter's pilot's license, but he was in the process
[22:49] Speaker 2: of getting it, so then he'd have to like do
[22:50] Speaker 2: a solo and fly to an airport, so he had
[22:52] Speaker 2: to put it in itinerary because you don't want him to
[22:54] Speaker 2: just get.
[22:55] Speaker 3: Lost, right, But I think that's if you're in the process.
[22:58] Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't know what happens.
[22:59] Speaker 3: Here's what I'm thinking because my power nerd status is
[23:05] Speaker 3: still in effect.
[23:06] Speaker 2: Totally, never doubted.
[23:07] Speaker 3: I have an app on my phone flight radar.
[23:10] Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
[23:11] Speaker 3: And anytime like there's some weird plane like going over
[23:14] Speaker 3: or like a helicopter for a long time, I look
[23:16] Speaker 3: and see what it is. But a lot of those
[23:18] Speaker 3: are there, and a lot of them don't have a destination.
[23:20] Speaker 3: It'll tell even small planes, it'll say, you know where
[23:23] Speaker 3: it's where it took off, but they don't have like
[23:25] Speaker 3: a destination put in their others do.
[23:28] Speaker 2: Even small planes? Interesting?
[23:29] Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean you're allowed to tootle apparently.
[23:32] Speaker 2: So at this point, she's going to tootle on over
[23:34] Speaker 2: to Prison de la San Right, Okay, it's like on
[23:37] Speaker 2: the left bank outside of Paris. So her husband, Michelle,
[23:40] Speaker 2: he checks the calendar. He sees the date is May
[23:42] Speaker 2: twenty sixth, nineteen eighty six. It's a Monday, and he
[23:45] Speaker 2: knows today is the day for him to get free. Exciting,
[23:48] Speaker 2: so he informs his friend to Pierre Hernandez. Then it
[23:52] Speaker 2: was their liberation day because he invited him to flee
[23:55] Speaker 2: prison with him. He's like, Pierre, you want to go.
[23:57] Speaker 3: He's like he's like, well, you know, when you're in
[23:59] Speaker 3: school and you have like some opportunity to bring one friend.
[24:02] Speaker 4: Yeah, that's.
[24:04] Speaker 2: So. Yeah, Pierre's like, we let's do this right. So
[24:08] Speaker 2: at this point, the prison de la It has no
[24:12] Speaker 2: soccer field for an easy landing, no interior courtyard that
[24:15] Speaker 2: would allow a touchdown. The only place in Nadine can
[24:18] Speaker 2: meet them with a helicopter is up on the prison roof.
[24:20] Speaker 2: But there's nowhere to land, so you're gonna have to hover,
[24:22] Speaker 2: and then they have to get up to the helicopter.
[24:25] Speaker 2: Sketch right, So they go, and the men are gap
[24:28] Speaker 2: to also rendezvous with Nadine up there. Like, how are
[24:31] Speaker 2: two inmates going to sneak out of the prison get
[24:33] Speaker 2: up onto the roof.
[24:33] Speaker 3: That's a very good question.
[24:37] Speaker 2: The answer was painted fruit.
[24:39] Speaker 3: It's always the answer.
[24:41] Speaker 2: It's like I always say, I went in doubt, add
[24:42] Speaker 2: color and some fresh fruit. So now, remember how Pascal
[24:46] Speaker 2: Payer used a bar of soap and blackened it with
[24:48] Speaker 2: shoe polished like he was in a French John Dillinger
[24:51] Speaker 2: and he took that a judge hostage. Well, Michele Vajoure,
[24:54] Speaker 2: he borrows a page from that playbook. But in his case,
[24:56] Speaker 2: instead of relying on just a carved soap pistol, which
[24:59] Speaker 2: he did have. Michelle also had a nectarine. Technically, he
[25:03] Speaker 2: had two nectarines. Okay. He painted the nectarines green so
[25:07] Speaker 2: that they resembled French style hand grenades.
[25:10] Speaker 3: Stop. Yes, I thought he was going to have a banana.
[25:13] Speaker 4: Gun practically, okay.
[25:17] Speaker 2: So when it's time for them to make their escape,
[25:18] Speaker 2: Michelle and his buddy Pierre, they brandished their shoe polish
[25:21] Speaker 2: soap pistol and their two green painted nectarines, and they
[25:25] Speaker 2: used them to threaten the prison guards, right and surprisingly
[25:29] Speaker 2: it works perfectly. The prison guards when they see them,
[25:31] Speaker 2: they're particularly afraid of the nectarine grenades. Really, they're terrified
[25:35] Speaker 2: that they'll be killed in an explosion of what they
[25:37] Speaker 2: believe to be legit hand grenades. They can't see how
[25:39] Speaker 2: far away from the distance they are. They're told it's
[25:42] Speaker 2: a hand grenade. It looks like a hand Grenadably it
[25:44] Speaker 2: blows up. They would die from a handad.
[25:46] Speaker 3: They're like me. They don't wear their glasses exactly.
[25:50] Speaker 2: Let's oh, this is kind of dark in the prison.
[25:52] Speaker 2: I don't know. So the two inmates flashing their shoe
[25:54] Speaker 2: polish soap pistol and their fake nectarine grenades. They're able
[25:57] Speaker 2: to bluff their way out of the prison and then
[25:59] Speaker 2: to get scrambling up onto the roof. Meanwhile, at around
[26:02] Speaker 2: ten thirty am that same morning, on her way to
[26:05] Speaker 2: save her man, a single mom Nadine Vajur and her
[26:08] Speaker 2: rental helicopter flying low over central Paris over the radio.
[26:12] Speaker 2: But the whole time she's being hailed with a series
[26:14] Speaker 2: of warnings as she's flying too low, it's illegal, you
[26:16] Speaker 2: need to pull up. She ignores all the urgent radio calls.
[26:19] Speaker 2: She's like, I'm not going to be in this chopper
[26:20] Speaker 2: very long. She needs to focus because she's approaching the prison,
[26:23] Speaker 2: which is located, as I said, there on the left bank.
[26:25] Speaker 2: So Nadine, she has also, by the way, a comrade
[26:28] Speaker 2: in crime with her in the chopper, a man who
[26:31] Speaker 2: is armed with a machine gun, because obviously if you
[26:33] Speaker 2: if anything goes sideways, they need to have like a
[26:37] Speaker 2: fireworks right, all right, And a little bit I know
[26:40] Speaker 2: you were wondering, so I'll just tell you. The helicopter
[26:42] Speaker 2: was an Alouette two, which is.
[26:44] Speaker 3: Like the cheese.
[26:45] Speaker 2: Yeah. Apparently it's a very trustworthy air machine. Imagine like
[26:48] Speaker 2: one of those helicopters from the beginning of mash just
[26:51] Speaker 2: making a huie no no, like the woman, the medical slide,
[26:55] Speaker 2: the you know, the beginning of Masher, they dropped down.
[26:58] Speaker 2: It's like a bubble front.
[27:00] Speaker 3: All I can hear is the Mashed theme song.
[27:02] Speaker 2: You're welcome, Suicideless. There you go.
[27:05] Speaker 3: So and I'm just like it's making more fresh and
[27:07] Speaker 3: now it's like I feel like it's the.
[27:09] Speaker 2: Late Yeah, time for you to go to So imagine
[27:13] Speaker 2: like the glass bubble and then they have like the skids.
[27:16] Speaker 3: Yeah, so they could put like a stretcher.
[27:19] Speaker 2: Okay, so that's the idea. You got the skids on
[27:21] Speaker 2: the set, you know, and then and you've got the
[27:23] Speaker 2: glass bubble enough for two to people to be seated inside,
[27:26] Speaker 2: not a big helicopter, right.
[27:27] Speaker 3: So yeah, it's not like like a succession helicopter.
[27:31] Speaker 4: There's room for eight exactly.
[27:32] Speaker 2: You know, you're not fitting the whole family in this one, Okay.
[27:34] Speaker 2: So anyway, as well trained and as practiced as she is,
[27:37] Speaker 2: Nadine is able to pilot the rental chopper over the
[27:40] Speaker 2: prison locate the roof of her husband's block of cells.
[27:43] Speaker 2: She hovers in place for a few minutes waiting for
[27:45] Speaker 2: him to pop up. Meanwhile, Hubby Michelle emerges from the
[27:49] Speaker 2: prison alongside his friend Pierre, dressed in a tracksuit. He
[27:52] Speaker 2: shows up and he like waves to his total style points.
[27:56] Speaker 2: Now she must have been imagine that moment. She must
[27:58] Speaker 2: be so relieved and stoked to see as the plan
[28:01] Speaker 2: is working. Now at this point, her comrade and crime,
[28:03] Speaker 2: the one with the machine gun. He kicks a rope
[28:05] Speaker 2: out of the chopper. He climbs down the approximately thirty
[28:09] Speaker 2: feet of rope and he joins the two inmates on
[28:11] Speaker 2: the roof, where he then holds the rope steady as
[28:14] Speaker 2: Michelle climbs back up and then grabs onto the helicopter skids.
[28:18] Speaker 2: Now they're prison guards below like in the courtyard, and
[28:20] Speaker 2: they could see all this daring escape underway, but they
[28:24] Speaker 2: had no clear shot of the inmates Michelle and Pierre
[28:26] Speaker 2: because their view is blocked by like chimneys and antennas
[28:29] Speaker 2: and you get the idea, right, So the prison guards
[28:32] Speaker 2: they hesitate to shoot. So the comrade and crime with
[28:34] Speaker 2: the machine gun, he also keeps his gun quiet, no
[28:36] Speaker 2: shots are fired. Meanwhile, urgent seconds are ticking by. Yeah,
[28:40] Speaker 2: Michelle's friend Pierre, he chickens out for reasons only he knows.
[28:45] Speaker 2: He hesitates to grab the rope and climb up. I
[28:47] Speaker 2: guess in the moment things got real for arm and
[28:48] Speaker 2: he's like, no, go on with that's me.
[28:51] Speaker 3: He probably only had like a week left on his ticket.
[28:54] Speaker 2: Please, So the comrade and Crime with the machine gun.
[28:57] Speaker 2: He uses the rope to climb back after the helicopter
[29:00] Speaker 2: and while Pierre stays behind and like bonjou, well good luck,
[29:04] Speaker 2: so Pierre said, he surrenders to the prison guards. I guess,
[29:12] Speaker 2: ball Sean, see, you get the idea. It's more fun
[29:14] Speaker 2: to be wrong. So anyway, once her man was a
[29:18] Speaker 2: board and her comrade and Crime was also safely like
[29:20] Speaker 2: on the skids, Nadine lifts them up out of the
[29:23] Speaker 2: stationary hover and if she's held the chopper steady, and
[29:25] Speaker 2: I'm talking, this is like no drift to the nose
[29:28] Speaker 2: of the chopper, no swing of the tail. There's just
[29:30] Speaker 2: there's rotors that are whipping the air and like it's
[29:33] Speaker 2: so so much. It was shaking the prison with the vibrations.
[29:35] Speaker 2: The rotor wash was yeah, yeah right, So she had
[29:38] Speaker 2: to be, like I said, well practiced. Nadine pilots the
[29:41] Speaker 2: three of them to freedom. Good on you, Nadine.
[29:44] Speaker 3: Nice.
[29:45] Speaker 2: So the rental chopper flees the scene. Nadine banks the
[29:47] Speaker 2: helicopter to the west. They keep the altitude all low.
[29:50] Speaker 2: She flies them just over the rooftops of the fourteenth
[29:53] Speaker 2: Air and dismal of Paris within minutes of their prison escape.
[29:57] Speaker 2: Nadine safely sets the chopper down where on a s
[30:00] Speaker 2: soccer field. Right, nice, look like I said, it was
[30:03] Speaker 2: an homage totally, So I mean, you're like, if you're
[30:06] Speaker 2: gonna be inspired, you gotta have a little win. It's
[30:08] Speaker 2: very French to be exactly style points. So the soccer
[30:12] Speaker 2: field happened to be part of a university housing complex,
[30:14] Speaker 2: so there were students out there. It's a Monday morning,
[30:17] Speaker 2: the ones who don't have class are enjoying a warm,
[30:19] Speaker 2: sunny day in May. The students are sunbathing because it's
[30:21] Speaker 2: like nineteen eighty six, and so they watched this chopper
[30:25] Speaker 2: land on the soccer pitch, which must have been wild. Now,
[30:28] Speaker 2: even even though like prison escapes at this point are
[30:30] Speaker 2: starting to become a tradition, this is only the second one,
[30:32] Speaker 2: so they don't expect this, right.
[30:34] Speaker 3: So they're just like slathered in bandasolet of course for that.
[30:39] Speaker 2: Maybe a little copper tone for those who've been to
[30:41] Speaker 2: like the West Indies. So Nadine shuts off the choppers engine.
[30:45] Speaker 2: The university students then watches these three comrades in crime, Michelle,
[30:49] Speaker 2: Nadine and the machine gun guy all run out of
[30:51] Speaker 2: the rental helicopter and flee the scene. Yeah, turns out
[30:54] Speaker 2: they have a car parked nearby waiting for them. I
[30:57] Speaker 2: read reports that it was a Pugio, which feels like
[30:59] Speaker 2: the perfect secondary escape vehicle for a prison escape in Paris.
[31:02] Speaker 4: Oh yeah, like that's how.
[31:03] Speaker 2: You do it, right. They're all out in the pougeot.
[31:07] Speaker 2: So the stylish Pugeau, it pulls away from the scene,
[31:10] Speaker 2: merges into the Monday morning traffic, disappears into the streets
[31:13] Speaker 2: of this Parisian suburb just south of the City of Lights. Right,
[31:16] Speaker 2: eyewitnesses call into the police to report this strange sight
[31:19] Speaker 2: of a helicopter landing on a soccer pitch and three
[31:21] Speaker 2: suspicious characters, one with a machine gun, fleeing the scene.
[31:25] Speaker 2: The police respond quickly. They really are on it, however,
[31:29] Speaker 2: once they respond and when they are there at the
[31:31] Speaker 2: soccer field, The French police suspected the helicopter it may
[31:34] Speaker 2: be boobytrapped, so they won't approach it. They wait an
[31:38] Speaker 2: entire hour until the bomb sniffing dogs can arrive check
[31:42] Speaker 2: the scenes. Once the dogs clear the danger, the police
[31:45] Speaker 2: then move in. They search their mental chopper. They find
[31:48] Speaker 2: absolutely no clues that would aid their manhunt. Right, So
[31:51] Speaker 2: in the meantime, Na dene Vjur and her husband Michelle,
[31:54] Speaker 2: and their machine gun toting partner in crime, they escape
[31:56] Speaker 2: into Paris together they enjoy that same beautiful spring day
[32:00] Speaker 2: and the sensation of liberation, right Dave LaFrance. So now, meanwhile,
[32:05] Speaker 2: to sidestep any criticism about their daring prison escape by
[32:08] Speaker 2: a helicopter, the second ever in French history, the French
[32:12] Speaker 2: police now have to inform the local press that Nadine
[32:15] Speaker 2: and Michelle Vajoure quote had a long time to plan
[32:18] Speaker 2: for this, so it's going to be difficult to find them.
[32:20] Speaker 2: They have two or three years on us, so we
[32:23] Speaker 2: don't expect to catch up with them in three or
[32:24] Speaker 2: four hours.
[32:25] Speaker 3: That's I like that reasonable totally, Like, hey, look, they
[32:29] Speaker 3: put a lot of big ups to them, everybody. Can
[32:32] Speaker 3: we just acknowledge their hard work.
[32:34] Speaker 2: Exactly do we look like Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan No,
[32:37] Speaker 2: we are not solving this crime within ninety minutes. So,
[32:41] Speaker 2: however it does last longer than the three or four
[32:45] Speaker 2: hours because for the next few months the three all
[32:47] Speaker 2: live on the lamb. Wow, fugitives from justice. Well, the
[32:50] Speaker 2: French police then have to keep admitting that they have
[32:53] Speaker 2: zero idea where they might be. They can be anywhere,
[32:56] Speaker 2: they could be Spain, could be Italy, who knows, it
[32:57] Speaker 2: could be Poland. So in fact, the police so clueless
[33:00] Speaker 2: that Nadine and Michelle they mastermind a second escape plan.
[33:05] Speaker 3: What is it with you?
[33:06] Speaker 2: They connived to grab their five year old daughter and
[33:09] Speaker 2: take her with them.
[33:10] Speaker 3: Oh, I thought it was gonna be like another buddy
[33:12] Speaker 3: of mine.
[33:13] Speaker 2: They have to go grab their daughter because like who
[33:15] Speaker 2: meanwhile was being surveiled because the French police are like,
[33:17] Speaker 2: they're gonna probably come for their daughter, and they do
[33:20] Speaker 2: not notice when Betty gets grabbed under round the clock
[33:23] Speaker 2: police surveillance. So that's what you call a gutsy move.
[33:26] Speaker 3: Wow.
[33:27] Speaker 2: So once they free their daughter and the whole family
[33:29] Speaker 2: is now toy all together again, what's their next move?
[33:31] Speaker 2: What do Nadine Michelle and darling daughter Betty do next
[33:34] Speaker 2: do they move to Morocco and adopt new names? And
[33:37] Speaker 2: they had they maybe hop over the Atlantic and find
[33:39] Speaker 2: a new home in Montreal or perhaps Detroit, or say
[33:42] Speaker 2: the Napa Wine country. Oh well, let's take another little
[33:46] Speaker 2: break to these messages. We will see if and how
[33:49] Speaker 2: the French police can ever catch up to Nadine and Michel.
[33:52] Speaker 4: Hmmm, and we're.
[34:14] Speaker 2: Back, Elizabeth, Yes we are. So have you noticed that
[34:17] Speaker 2: the interns are a little gassy today?
[34:19] Speaker 3: I have noticed that.
[34:20] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[34:21] Speaker 2: I was like, hey, guys, you want to maybe like
[34:23] Speaker 2: step out in the hallway.
[34:24] Speaker 3: I think they changed the recipes in the cafeteria.
[34:27] Speaker 2: The snacks, the treats they've been eating. Yes, they got
[34:30] Speaker 2: the gassy ones.
[34:30] Speaker 4: So buddy, anyway, where were we?
[34:33] Speaker 2: Oh that's right. Single mother Nadine or go ahead, learns
[34:38] Speaker 2: the fly helicopter practice until she's good enough to hold
[34:41] Speaker 2: a chopper motionless. She passes away to her husband. They
[34:44] Speaker 2: escape prison with a fake gun made out of a
[34:45] Speaker 2: bar soap and the two nectarines painted to look like eggs,
[34:49] Speaker 2: and then she and Michelle they fly to safety. Then
[34:51] Speaker 2: they go grab their five year old daughter, Betty, who's
[34:53] Speaker 2: under police surveillance. Let me just they're knocking down.
[34:56] Speaker 3: On the roof and the guards were watching. He like
[35:00] Speaker 3: put the fake grenade to his mouth like he's going
[35:03] Speaker 3: to pull the pin, and insteady like bit into.
[35:05] Speaker 4: It, took a bite and threw it and they all went.
[35:09] Speaker 3: And then he laughed and then threw it down at it. Oh,
[35:12] Speaker 3: he's better than the paint on the side.
[35:16] Speaker 2: Exactly.
[35:17] Speaker 3: That's how I like to imagine, That's how I'm picturing it.
[35:20] Speaker 2: Let's go with.
[35:21] Speaker 3: Him, let's do it.
[35:22] Speaker 2: So Unfortunately for this newly reunited family, their good luck
[35:27] Speaker 2: is about to run out. For three months. Though Nadine
[35:31] Speaker 2: and Michelle they stay low and out of the side
[35:33] Speaker 2: of the law. They enjoy their life together with young Betty.
[35:36] Speaker 2: They don't use any phones, they don't go out in
[35:38] Speaker 2: public unless you know, not anymore than they need to.
[35:41] Speaker 2: They avoid restaurants, bakeriesies, and they instead they heat up
[35:47] Speaker 2: canned food, which is like I think, a crime in France.
[35:52] Speaker 2: They stay away from their criminal.
[35:53] Speaker 3: Associations unless it's like tinned fish.
[35:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but like my diet is totally illegal in France,
[35:59] Speaker 2: Like what is this prepared food? Then that can.
[36:04] Speaker 3: Microwave.
[36:05] Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, so they also stayed away from other criminal associates,
[36:09] Speaker 2: which is a really smart move because those are the
[36:10] Speaker 2: folks that might be tempted to grab a quick payday,
[36:12] Speaker 2: but then flip on them, diame them out to the
[36:14] Speaker 2: cops and get that hefty reward money because the cops
[36:17] Speaker 2: are embarrassed by this. Right, these are fugitives from the law,
[36:20] Speaker 2: so they're willing to like pay rewards. Right. Anyway, the
[36:23] Speaker 2: newly reunited family, they also have to like play house
[36:26] Speaker 2: on the run, so they're like you know, terrorists where
[36:29] Speaker 2: they cannot stay in the same place, or drug dealers
[36:32] Speaker 2: like you know, big cartel leaders where they don't sleep
[36:33] Speaker 2: in the same place night after night. Right, so they're
[36:36] Speaker 2: staying in like furnished rental apartments. They're staying in out
[36:39] Speaker 2: of the way farm houses. They're changing their housing like
[36:42] Speaker 2: every few days, never stay anywhere too long. Doing everything right.
[36:47] Speaker 2: Except they did one thing wrong, Elizabeth. They stayed in Paris. Wait, yes,
[36:52] Speaker 2: they just could not leave the city of Lets. Well,
[36:56] Speaker 2: so we take that back. They did two things wrong
[36:58] Speaker 2: because they also went back into businesses career criminals.
[37:00] Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know, they are just providing a really
[37:04] Speaker 3: wonderful life for their Yes, yeah, I mean I'm so
[37:07] Speaker 3: glad they're doing this, that it's all worth it for
[37:09] Speaker 3: this life that they've given her.
[37:11] Speaker 2: So well, yeah, I guess they needed the money. You know,
[37:13] Speaker 2: they don't have anything, and they got to keep getting
[37:15] Speaker 2: apartments so they have to pay cash. So one day, Michelle,
[37:19] Speaker 2: I assume it was Michelle's idea, since it is his MO,
[37:21] Speaker 2: decides to push his luck by robbing a bank. But
[37:26] Speaker 2: rather than me tell you about it, Elizabeth.
[37:27] Speaker 7: Heyes, close your eyes, but as a clue, I want
[37:30] Speaker 7: you to picture it.
[37:37] Speaker 2: It's a charming Friday afternoon in Paris. The sounds of
[37:40] Speaker 2: children playing mixes with the sounds of workmen finishing up
[37:44] Speaker 2: for the day. It gives the day a lively atmosphere.
[37:47] Speaker 2: Life in Paris is just doing its thing, and you, Elizabeth,
[37:50] Speaker 2: are there to enjoy it all. You came to the
[37:53] Speaker 2: City of Lights for a vacation. You brought your camera,
[37:56] Speaker 2: a few cute outfits, and a willingness to say wait
[37:58] Speaker 2: to whatever Paris may offer you. At the moment, you're
[38:01] Speaker 2: seated on a park bench enjoying the day, You're nibbling
[38:04] Speaker 2: on a piccolo sandwich of fresh ham and cheese. As
[38:07] Speaker 2: you listen to a street musician playing a song on
[38:09] Speaker 2: his accordion, is that my Van Rose? You wonder is
[38:12] Speaker 2: this real life? And then you notice something odd A
[38:16] Speaker 2: pair of policemen seated in their car. One of them
[38:19] Speaker 2: is on his handheld radio, calling in whatever it is
[38:22] Speaker 2: he's watching. You turn to look in the same direction
[38:25] Speaker 2: as him, and you spot a bank. It's a Credit
[38:28] Speaker 2: Lionne's branch. You wonder what's drawing the policeman's attention to
[38:31] Speaker 2: this bank? And then you spy another set of police officers,
[38:36] Speaker 2: a man and a woman, also seated in a police
[38:38] Speaker 2: car parked alongside the same road, but they're on the
[38:41] Speaker 2: other side of the bank, and they're also studying that
[38:44] Speaker 2: same bank with the same attention as the first police.
[38:48] Speaker 2: Something must be going down, you think to yourself. As
[38:51] Speaker 2: you take a sip of lemonade you purchased along with
[38:53] Speaker 2: your piccolo sandwich before you have a moment to finish.
[38:56] Speaker 2: Swallowing the lemonade, you see what must be what the
[39:00] Speaker 2: police are watching. Three men in very cheap wigs exit
[39:05] Speaker 2: the bank. They're moving fast like they just rob the place,
[39:08] Speaker 2: which is exactly what they have done. You're riveted. Now
[39:12] Speaker 2: this is a real life French bank robbery. How exciting.
[39:15] Speaker 2: The police attending to the scene hop out of their
[39:18] Speaker 2: police cars. Other cops disguised as street vendors and tourists
[39:21] Speaker 2: also leap into action. The Parisian police are all business.
[39:26] Speaker 2: They draw their weapons and order the three men and
[39:28] Speaker 2: the bad wigs to freeze. Again, you wonder is this
[39:32] Speaker 2: real life? Because you are right in the middle of
[39:34] Speaker 2: the action, just across the street from the bank, seated
[39:37] Speaker 2: alone on the bench. You can practically see the color
[39:40] Speaker 2: of the three men's eyes, that's how close you are.
[39:43] Speaker 2: And then you see the three men in the bad
[39:46] Speaker 2: cheap wigs are also carrying guns, which they raise into view.
[39:50] Speaker 2: Suddenly you wish you weren't seated so close to the action.
[39:53] Speaker 2: But before you can set down your piccolo sandwich next
[39:56] Speaker 2: to your lemonade, someone fires a shot. You suspect it's
[39:59] Speaker 2: a cop because if the bank robbers are quick to respond,
[40:02] Speaker 2: they fire their guns. Now you are in the middle
[40:05] Speaker 2: of a legitimate gunfight. Isn't this what you left America
[40:08] Speaker 2: to avoid random gun violence? Then anyway, it gets personal.
[40:12] Speaker 2: A stray bullet hits the park bench. You're seated on
[40:15] Speaker 2: another one knocks over your lemonade. You and your sandwich
[40:19] Speaker 2: hit the dirt. The cops and the robbers keep firing
[40:22] Speaker 2: at each other and they keep missing. Once again, you
[40:25] Speaker 2: wonder is this real life? When you lift your head
[40:28] Speaker 2: to look up and towards the bank robbers, hoping you
[40:30] Speaker 2: can see an opportunity to escape this gunfight. Instead, you
[40:33] Speaker 2: see one of the bank robbers get shot. It's bad.
[40:37] Speaker 2: He gets shot in the head and he goes down.
[40:40] Speaker 2: In fact, it's so bad it scares the other two
[40:42] Speaker 2: bank robbers and they throw down their weapons. And with
[40:45] Speaker 2: the danger now passed, you get up off the dirt
[40:48] Speaker 2: and you brush off the leaves and the grime. Your sandwich,
[40:51] Speaker 2: which was so good, is now covered also in dirt
[40:54] Speaker 2: and muck. Your lemonade is leaked out over the cobblestones,
[40:57] Speaker 2: but you are safe and unharmed. The cops rush to
[41:00] Speaker 2: check on the man they shot you. Hear them call
[41:02] Speaker 2: him by the name Michelle, and he is not dead,
[41:06] Speaker 2: but he appears to be in a coma. Yet again,
[41:09] Speaker 2: you wonder is this real life? It very much is,
[41:13] Speaker 2: but you've survived, and you can always buy another bag
[41:15] Speaker 2: at Ham Sandwich Okay, so that was not exactly the
[41:20] Speaker 2: ideal scene for your idyllic, spontaneous picnic in Paris, But
[41:24] Speaker 2: for the police of Paris, it was quite a feather
[41:26] Speaker 2: in their cap, a triumphant moment, so to speak. They
[41:29] Speaker 2: had caught the notorious fugitive and helicopter escape artist Michelle Vajoure.
[41:34] Speaker 2: And so after Michelle's poorly planned and executed bank robbery
[41:37] Speaker 2: fails and he gets shot in the head, he's taken
[41:39] Speaker 2: back to prison in a coma. Oh god, rough business.
[41:43] Speaker 2: And what about old Nadine? Yeah, and now she's a
[41:46] Speaker 2: single mom again. What are she and Betty gonna do?
[41:49] Speaker 2: Don't worry because it didn't take long for the French
[41:51] Speaker 2: police to locate Maybe just a matter of hours, you're kidding, yes,
[41:56] Speaker 2: which raises a rather obvious question. How deep was his coma?
[41:59] Speaker 2: Like he snitch on her in order to lighten his sentence?
[42:02] Speaker 2: Did one of the other bank robbers who like to
[42:04] Speaker 2: say they see him down, They're like, well, we can.
[42:06] Speaker 3: Tell you make a bargain, And that's.
[42:10] Speaker 2: What I'm thinking. They traded her to get light for themselves.
[42:12] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[42:13] Speaker 2: Anyway, not long after Michelle is caught and captured Nadine's
[42:17] Speaker 2: located hiding out intuloose. Now, Unlike her husband, the once
[42:21] Speaker 2: again single mother didn't get into a gunfight. When she
[42:23] Speaker 2: was confronted by the police, she gave herself up to
[42:25] Speaker 2: the cops without a struggle. She was arrested, tried for
[42:28] Speaker 2: the helicopter prison escape. She's convicted, and she's sentenced to
[42:32] Speaker 2: two years in prison. Okay, not bad, kind of light.
[42:35] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[42:35] Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Michelle is also tried for his prison escape and
[42:38] Speaker 2: the subsequent bank robbery in the gunfight with the police.
[42:40] Speaker 2: He's found guilty, sentenced to seventeen years in prison on
[42:44] Speaker 2: top of his prior sentence, which had been suspended when
[42:47] Speaker 2: he freed himself from a prison, saying he has to
[42:49] Speaker 2: also complete that. At first, the married couple's romantic bond
[42:53] Speaker 2: remained strong, unbreakable. At one point, Nadine boasted to the press,
[42:58] Speaker 2: I would do it all over again.
[43:00] Speaker 3: He came out of the coma.
[43:01] Speaker 2: Yeah, he comes, he comes completely out of the comma.
[43:02] Speaker 2: He's fine. He was just initially like, you know, shot
[43:05] Speaker 2: in the head, so yeah, yeah, so he was, he
[43:08] Speaker 2: wasn't you know. He did suffer disabilities after the insu
[43:13] Speaker 2: and it did reframe his sense of self. So it
[43:15] Speaker 2: was quite a coma.
[43:16] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[43:17] Speaker 2: But once Nadine's release from prison, something changes for her
[43:19] Speaker 2: because she didn't mastermind a second prison escape from Michelle. Instead,
[43:23] Speaker 2: she focused on being a mother to Betty. She gets
[43:26] Speaker 2: a straight Yeah, she gets a straight job. She starts
[43:29] Speaker 2: paying her bills like every other taxpayer. She stays out
[43:31] Speaker 2: of prison. However, Nadine did join the Ridiculous Crime Book Club.
[43:37] Speaker 2: She penned a novel about her time as a helicopter
[43:40] Speaker 2: pilot and career criminal. She called her book l Fiere
[43:43] Speaker 2: del er or in English, the Girl of the Air. Okay,
[43:47] Speaker 2: I guess it was a good book because someone option
[43:49] Speaker 2: didn't turn it into a movie. Reviews of the movie
[43:51] Speaker 2: suggest the filmmaker was no Michael Mann. Instead of like
[43:54] Speaker 2: a gripping crime filler, her novel resulted in the sort
[43:57] Speaker 2: of French film that features like string sections, like soundtracking,
[44:01] Speaker 2: beautiful shots, and there's lots of sadness and longing and
[44:05] Speaker 2: romantic on we So, what was her husband, Michelle doing
[44:08] Speaker 2: while she's out there making sad French films? Well, he
[44:11] Speaker 2: has his collective twenty seven years behind bars to do.
[44:15] Speaker 2: He does it all. Oh, Eventually, he finds a new
[44:17] Speaker 2: female accomplice though, to help him with another daring.
[44:20] Speaker 4: Prison escape out of here.
[44:22] Speaker 2: His new partner in crime was a woman named Jamila.
[44:24] Speaker 2: She was a law student turned amateur criminal mastermind. No,
[44:28] Speaker 2: but she was no Dadine because their prison escape ended
[44:31] Speaker 2: in bitter failure, and so Michelle was forced to complete
[44:34] Speaker 2: his full prison sentence, which he does in twenty seven
[44:36] Speaker 2: years later. A sentence done, He's released. The year is
[44:40] Speaker 2: two thousand and three. Wow, at the age of sixty nine.
[44:44] Speaker 2: Now Michelle comes out of prison. He has also joined
[44:47] Speaker 2: the Ridiculous Crime Prison book club You're Kidding Me. Rather
[44:49] Speaker 2: than a romantic novel like Nadine, he wrote a romantic autobiography.
[44:54] Speaker 2: He gave it the title Love Saved Me from Sinking.
[44:58] Speaker 3: Oh boy.
[44:58] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[44:59] Speaker 4: You see.
[44:59] Speaker 2: During his time I'm in prison, Michelle had taken up yoga.
[45:02] Speaker 2: He embraced spirituality as a form of therapy, and it's
[45:05] Speaker 2: barely a worked for him. I don't know.
[45:06] Speaker 3: Yeah, but then he tried to escape again.
[45:08] Speaker 2: Well, yeah, a little after that, I guess. In his book,
[45:11] Speaker 2: he includes all these lessons in spirituality and then adopting
[45:14] Speaker 2: a yoga practice, alongside tales of his crimes in as
[45:17] Speaker 2: many years behind bars right his life. At this point,
[45:20] Speaker 2: his autobiography or really his life gets turned into a movie.
[45:24] Speaker 2: It was called My Greatest Escape. That's the English title.
[45:27] Speaker 2: It was a documentary. It was not a big hit
[45:29] Speaker 2: in France. One reviewer gave it one star out of
[45:32] Speaker 2: ten out of ten yes out of ten. The reviewer
[45:37] Speaker 2: wrote that quote, most of the film involved the very
[45:40] Speaker 2: loquacious of Azure talking without much prompting. The filmmakers mix
[45:44] Speaker 2: the locations up by having him visit friends and convict acquaintances,
[45:48] Speaker 2: but we don't hear much of interest from these people.
[45:52] Speaker 2: Love that same reviewer later adds that quote, there's an
[45:55] Speaker 2: annoying superiority about the man who shakes his head at
[45:59] Speaker 2: the compleat acency of his friends, And a few minutes
[46:02] Speaker 2: later the film speaks of an aborted attempt to kill
[46:04] Speaker 2: one of his ex colleagues who had refused to be
[46:06] Speaker 2: involved in an escape attempt, as if he thinks he
[46:09] Speaker 2: has the godlike right to give and take lives.
[46:12] Speaker 3: So wow, I mean, that's the thing. You could You know,
[46:15] Speaker 3: this book sounds like, oh, look, I'm happy for you, buddy,
[46:18] Speaker 3: but you're not going to tell give me any sort
[46:20] Speaker 3: of advice on absolutely any.
[46:22] Speaker 2: I don't think so. So around the same time that
[46:25] Speaker 2: Michelle was released from prison in two thousand and three
[46:28] Speaker 2: is when Pascal Paie got his second helicopter escape of
[46:32] Speaker 2: his own, remember two thousand and seven, which re enlivens
[46:37] Speaker 2: the daring practice with a sense of criminal coup, right,
[46:40] Speaker 2: And so the documentary about Michelle gets made in two
[46:42] Speaker 2: thousand and nine after Pascal Paie's third attempt, So they're
[46:46] Speaker 2: kind of working with each other through like a theme
[46:49] Speaker 2: of helicopter escapes. And then a decade later, in twenty eighteen,
[46:53] Speaker 2: Michelle and Nadine's helicopter antics are followed and imitated by
[46:57] Speaker 2: my man Ridon Fay. That's right, chopper based prisoness cap
[47:01] Speaker 2: which now brings us full circle. So there you go.
[47:04] Speaker 2: What's ridiculous takeaway here?
[47:06] Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. You know you hate helicopters. You refuse
[47:10] Speaker 3: to get in once.
[47:12] Speaker 2: It's not natural to fly in helicopters. And if you
[47:14] Speaker 2: ever seen anything other than like there's like a seed
[47:17] Speaker 2: pod that kind of flies like that, that's what inspired
[47:19] Speaker 2: Leonardo da Vinci. If you made something like that, I
[47:22] Speaker 2: might get into it because as it falls it's going
[47:24] Speaker 2: to have a controlled fall. But a helicopter is beating
[47:27] Speaker 2: the air down, and if it has any problems with
[47:29] Speaker 2: the engine, it stops beating the air down. You can
[47:32] Speaker 2: kind of like auto rotate the rotors, but no, I
[47:35] Speaker 2: want to I want someone with wings.
[47:37] Speaker 3: So I love that you're fascinated with helicopter escapes even
[47:41] Speaker 3: though you hate helicopter.
[47:42] Speaker 4: It's one and you know take away.
[47:44] Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say like, oh, I'm so fearless, but
[47:46] Speaker 2: I'm rather fear I'm rather fearless about doing dumb stuff. Right,
[47:50] Speaker 2: I've done like a lot of like and I'm not
[47:52] Speaker 2: afraid of heights, but a helicopter to me is like
[47:55] Speaker 2: past the point of dumb. It's like it's like a
[47:57] Speaker 2: dare with death.
[47:58] Speaker 4: Like when you came this time, I.
[48:01] Speaker 3: Would not get in the helicopter. Also, I have terrible
[48:03] Speaker 3: fear of heights.
[48:04] Speaker 2: Well, also, I mean, how many helicopter crashed it. There's
[48:07] Speaker 2: been so many. You're just like, whoa, Yeah, it's just Also,
[48:09] Speaker 2: I wouldn't get in.
[48:10] Speaker 8: A small playing with a musician a famous rule.
[48:15] Speaker 3: What's your ridiculous take away, Zarah?
[48:17] Speaker 2: Oh wow, thank you for asking, Elizabeth. Well, I guess
[48:21] Speaker 2: like you kind of set up top. The French love
[48:23] Speaker 2: a prison escape via a helicopter, like they like Jerry Lewis.
[48:26] Speaker 2: It's just silly and fun, but like, why is that really?
[48:29] Speaker 2: What's the essence? My guess is that they love it
[48:31] Speaker 2: because it's both unexpected and impractical, yet it also has
[48:35] Speaker 2: a certain panache, like a certain artistry to it.
[48:37] Speaker 3: Oh yeah, totally.
[48:38] Speaker 2: So that's my take is like I think I have
[48:40] Speaker 2: a little insight into the French soul via the helicopter
[48:43] Speaker 2: prison escape Jazzy. Yeah right, It's like it's like why
[48:46] Speaker 2: they like Charlie Parker. It's like, oh, the daring and
[48:49] Speaker 2: it's it's on the edge right right, all right, So
[48:53] Speaker 2: you in the move for a talk back to wash
[48:54] Speaker 2: this one down.
[48:55] Speaker 3: Of course, I am, oh my god, oh my god.
[49:06] Speaker 2: I like, get.
[49:10] Speaker 5: Share ridiculous crime I committed. Don't worry, It's totally legal,
[49:13] Speaker 5: totally cool. When I was three, I was really obsessed
[49:17] Speaker 5: with Batman. So I was in a Walmart and my
[49:21] Speaker 5: father and I were walking past the sections I've had
[49:24] Speaker 5: a Batman sweatshirt on it, and I asked my father, Hey, dad,
[49:27] Speaker 5: can I have the Batman sweatshirt? And he said no,
[49:30] Speaker 5: and so I ripped my shirt off and I ran
[49:32] Speaker 5: around and I yelled at him because I did not
[49:34] Speaker 5: get my Batman's shirt. Love the show.
[49:38] Speaker 3: That's the way you handle those situations. You're like, I
[49:41] Speaker 3: don't I don't get that shirt. But if I had
[49:44] Speaker 3: no shirt, ran the garments hulking out.
[49:47] Speaker 8: I love it totally legal. Well, thank you for that one,
[49:54] Speaker 8: for a smile at both of our faces. As always,
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[50:35] Speaker 2: As always, we will catch you next crime. Ridiculous Crime
[50:43] Speaker 2: is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton and Zaron Burnette, produced and
[50:47] Speaker 2: edited by the owner and proprietor of Montshew Dave's Helicopter,
[50:50] Speaker 2: Flat School and Stormdog Company, Dave Houston, and starring Annalie's
[50:54] Speaker 2: Rucker as Judith. Research is by our favorite cheap and
[50:58] Speaker 2: bad wig sellers, Us Brown and Jabari Davis. Our theme
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