investigation. >> the podcast was a finalist for the pulitzer prize, but shapearl is not sure the people she really wants to hear her are listening. >> i have no faith in chicago police department that they will solve my son's murder. >> so your mission is not over? >> no. i will keep fighting for courtney until my last breath, until they bring me a convicted murderer. >> you know that won't even the scales. >> no. but i feel like my son deserves justice. >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. k you for watching >> i'm craig melville and this is dateline. >> that must be a pit in your stomach when you hear that your inmate is gone. >> yes, he's a very, very

dangerous person. >> you said a prisoner had escaped and toby was missing. we assumed that he took her prisoner to be used as a hostage. >> they were concerned for toby's safety. >> we found out that she had taken a large sum of cash and two firearms were missing from the house. >> you think could she be involved in something like this? >> she had children, a husband, it seemed like it was a white picket fence type life. >> there was absolutely no way toby could be involved in this. >> you see this truck -- >> my gut feeling was telling me it was them. >> i said this is our guy. >> this sounds like one of those fast and furious car chases. >> i was terrified that they were going to get kills. >> very wild story. >> so many twists and turns. >> nerve wracking. >> shocking. >> it is unbelievable.

>> hello and welcome to dateline. when convicted killer john escape from prison authorities feared he would go to any lengths to evade capture, then a horrifying discovery, prison volunteer toby young was missing. a wife and mother now at the mercy of this desperate man. but, was toby in danger or was she in on the plan, here is andrea canning with break out. >> it was a cold february night along this isolated stretch of a tennessee highway when u.s. marshal tony crawford and dozens of state troopers finally spotted the woman they had been searching for. >> i was just trying to see inside of the truck, i could see the top of her head. >> she was sitting in the passenger seat terrified. a 48-year-old beloved mother of

two, a cancer survivor and community volunteer. back home in kansas her tight-knit family desperately wanted her home safe. >> we were all fearful for her life, and justifiably so. >> as crawford drove along side the trucking knew that if he wanted to get to her he had to stop him, the man at the wheel. a convicted killer armed and dangerous who wasn't going down without a fight. he is taking you on a wild ride? >> yes, it was. that was the wild this chase i had ever been. >> and a -- that blurred felines between duty and desire, a story about breaking out of prisons, both real and imagined. >> this wasn't just the top of the town, this was the top of the nation. >> yes it was, it was just unreal. >> the saga started almost two

weeks earlier when the alarms sounded and ward and david mchugh learned that an inmate had escape from the lansing correctional. >> it was very scary, and then right away was like who is gone? where are they going? >> soon, the warden had a name, john maynard, 27 years old sentenced to life for a carjacking gone wrong. >> at the time that he committed his crime he was only 17. >> reporter lauren fox wrote about maynard for the kansas city newspaper. >> the carjacking turned fatal someone shot the driver who was in his car and so john maynard was a convicted murderer for his involvement in that crime. >> if he's capable of participating in a robbery that turns into murder he is very capable of murdering again, through assault and battery he is a very dangerous person. >> is your first thought, he could kill somebody out there? >> oh, yes, very possible. >> he put police in the area on high alert and warned the

locals in the tiny prison town along the kansas border that a criminal was on the loose. >> i had a huge esteem whistle and would blow that several times and so all the local communities know when you hear that, somebody is on the run. it's just an overt be aware -- lock your doors, take all the precautions. >> as police increased patrols in the surrounding towns, tourism investigators got to work trying to figure out how maynard had escaped. >> right away you start the whole surge of all the interior of the perimeter, you look for breaches in defense you look for breaches in the gates or anything like that. >> they also traced every vehicle that left the prison that day and discovered that one vehicle hadn't been searched. a van. >> we had to search inside the van, underneath the van, on top of the van you put seismic sensors and it will discover the heartbeat of a mouse. there is a mouse in the vehicle. >> but this time they didn't. >> they didn't do it.

they didn't follow procedures. >> the van belonged to safe harbor, and nationally heralded prison program that taught inmates how to train straight dogs for adoption. several dogs had been picked up from the prison, john maynard it turned out was one of the dog handlers, investigators interrogated every inmate who had helped load the dogs into the van. >> they drill down and drill down and talk to all of the folks until you finally get somebody who is willing to talk. >> where does that lead you? >> where that lead was that we were very sure that he had left inside the dog crate. every inmate knew that because he had to get into the dog rate and had to have someone fast enough shot from the outside and loaded into the van. >> there were fewer guards at the prison on sundays and only two prisoner counts, the weather may have helped maynard to. >> the day of the escape was very cold, people didn't want to be outside. they were ready to get the dogs in the van and get them out of their.

what they didn't know, of course, is that john was in one of the dog crates. >> and that, investigators believed, instantly put the driver of the van in harm's way. the founder of safe harbor, a woman named toby young. she was one of the most popular and trusted volunteers at the prison. and perhaps the reason the guards let their guard down. >> are you thinking toby's life could be in danger? >> oh, absolutely. we figured that he is in for murder in the first place and i just had visions, as they get away from here driving away he pops out of the box and takes her literally hostage and then how long before he is done with the hostage? it just gives you chills, fear of what could happen. >> toby young set out to help prison inmates, now she may be the victim of one. coming up -- her family desperate. >> people were trying to call our cell phones and there were

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was possibly holding a hostage. toby young, the leader of the prison successful dog training program. a woman so beloved, the inmates gave her an enduring nickname. the dog lady. >> she seemed like a model volunteer? >> absolutely. good background, great career, strategic planning. her husband is on the fire department. good family. >> now, he had to break the news to toby's family. her brother could barely comprehend it. >> you have to pinch yourself to say this is real, this is really happening. >> were you trying to reach out to her was everyone in the family trying to call her? >> people were trying to call her cell phone and there was no answer. and we were just fearing for the worse. >> toby siblings got together at her parents place, there were lots of them. toby was the oldest of seven children. >> was toby somebody that you all looked up to? was she the kind of sister who set an example?

>> she was, she did set an example. she set an example that was very hard for the other kids to reach. >> she led a model life as adult to. while working full-time, she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelors degree in business administration. and rose through the -- to become a manager at sprint. but she was most proud of our two says that she raised with her firefighter husband patrick. they work together to build this beautiful home. >> she met pat in high school, and they dated freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year. and then they married a few years after that. >> this was really the definition of high school sweethearts. did they seem like a happy family? >> yeah, they seemed like the ideal, perfect family. >> toby also had her fair share of hardships, tom said. she struggled to find a job after sprint unexpectedly downside and laid her off. then she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

after she recovered, and her kids went off to college, she took stock. she decided to dedicate herself to serving others by establishing safe harbor. >> do you think that is a testament to her personality? that kind of gentle soul? >> exactly. and she loved taking care of animals, and she loved taking care of people and this dog program gave her a release and gave her a reason to carry on. >> did it give her that extra kick in her step when she found this calling? >> oh yes, definitely. gave her a purpose and seemed to complete her. >> but now, on that cold february day, it seemed like toby could lose it all. especially after her husband called law enforcement with some alarming news. >> during that conversation with her husband, we found out that she had taken a large sum of cash and two fire arms were missing from the house. >> race stewart, a member of the fugitive task force hunting, it theorize that the inmates had forced her to drive to the house to get the weapons. if so, he had just turned from

dangerous to armed and dangerous. >> when you throw a firearm into the mix, that does set the game a considerable amount. no one knew that he had two fire arms, and of course the question everyone's mind was is he willing to use them? >> and now that john had money as well, was toby expendable? her husband feared the worst. >> of course these types of situations you can never guarantee what will happen in the end. i just told them, hopefully everything will turn out all right. and hopefully, they'll bring back safe. >> they -- few hours after they escape. an off-duty prison employee who was unaware that he had escaped, saw him at a nearby walmart. and wondered what a sentenced to life was doing in the store. by the time he realized what was going on, and called for backup. maynard had disappeared. so close. >> are you consumed by this 24/7? >> oh yeah. i just, hanging out there in

the office listening for the phone, looking at the radio. listening for everybody. reports are coming in from the investigators and just praying let this be one of the tips that gets us there. >> the department of corrections officers and u.s. marshals were searching for maynard and toby. others were trying to find out if anyone outside of the prison was helping him of aid capture. so they went to his family and friends and found no evidence that any of them were involved. next, they turn their attention to the prison staff. could one of their own have helped maynard? >> we know what happens. i could even hazard a guess. in 30 years, how many staff that we disciplined or let go because of overly familiar relationships. it's a number. quite a number. >> but as far as they could tell, mo staff member had helped him escape. and left one person whose actions they couldn't get an

account for, toby. >> you trusted her? >> -- yeah. sure did. good and if he only no. >> coming up! investigators take a hard look at toby and, >> i think everything about kobe's life up to that point had lead people to believe that she was safe and trustworthy. >> and then a critical discovery at a storage unit. and the break that will change everything! >> all these pieces of the puzzle started to come together and we're telling a story? >> absolutely. >> when dateline continues! when dateline continues

>> a day into the hunt for john manard, investigators concluded that no one close to him had helped him escape. but then the investigators worth their salt had to check out toby. as unlikely as it seemed, was she somehow involved? >> she is the kind of person who never broke any law, any rules. she was the ultimate rule follower. >> michael is an author and journalist who were out about the prison break for the atlantic magazine. >> i think everything about her life up to that point had lead people to believe that she was safe and trustworthy. >> but the closer that they looked, the more investigators were forced to confront the

most astonishing possibility. that this rule follower, was a rule breaker. shortly after the escape, investigators made several rather curious discoveries. the prison administrative officer told them that staff had noticed kobe and manard we're spending a lot of time together. >> some of the staff had talked to my -- and said they seem to be a little too close. and i know that they talk to her about that. you have to be very careful about those appearances. >> but everything was under the microscope now. including this. in addition to the cash that her husband reported missing. she had emptied her retirement account to the tune of $40,000. she also went on his shopping spree at walmart, target, and the sporting goods store. >> so there's security footage of her at walmart buying men's clothing. and a lot of snacks that a teenager might want. like twins learns, chocolate

covered donuts. they see her at the sports goods store by men's clothing. >> more than that, survival gear. and that is when investigators asked her husband about those purposes. told them that the family didn't have any trips planned. and she hadn't bought them any new clothes lately. >> the clothing that she was buying was not for the husband. >> there were other items that clearly weren't for the husband. black hair dye, and an electric razor that she bought at target. and to burner phones she brought at walmart. the next day, police got their biggest break yet. they learned that she had rented a storage unit on the outskirts of town a week before the escape. >> they discovered her than inside the storage unit, tire tracks leading away from the unit. >> investigators believe that those tracks were from the getaway vehicle. an suv or a truck. >> finding this really change the investigation in a really significant way. >> investigators now wondered, instead of being manard

hostage. could totally be his accomplish? they found the answer in her cell phone bill. there were hundreds of calls to an unknown number. they trace it to a phone that they believe that toby's smuggled into prison for manard. >> this was the first major line that she crossed. she brought him a phone and they talk for something like 12,000 minutes over the next couple of weeks. 200 hours. and they text message all the time. there was one morning where toby's husband found the phone that she had and it received text messages to something like good morning, i love you. >> investigators added the secret phone calls and text to a long list of evidence against toby. the dimmer housewife was looking more like a desperate housewife. >> all of these pieces of the pretzel started to come together and we're telling a story? >> absolutely. >> a story of a forbidden romance? >> right. >> toby is not the kind of

person that you're thinking, she is the one that would have and relationship with an inmate. the married mom. who started the dog program. >> and how much more of a loving, caring person can you have? it's almost unfathomable. >> are you feeling some anger that she did this to you? >> i'm betrayed. and i'm misled. a violation of trust. >> but the warden still believe that toby's life could be in danger. >> the inmates will be manipulating you. and even if her view of it was, we have a very romantic relationship. we're having this great future together. if we just get away with this. many many times, it's not reciprocal. >> toby might have trusted this man, but, i know that you sure did not. >> nope. did not. >> coming up!

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>> welcome back to dateline. i'm craig melvin. keller john manard was on the loose and a suspected prisoner volunteer toby dorr helped him escape. as improbable as it seem, text messages revealed that they were having an affair. but investigators feared that manard could be using toby. and she was in danger. now, the race was on and police were about to get a crucial tip. back to andrea canning with break out! >> toby yang had turned from a woman who had never committed a crime, to an apparent criminal on the run. investigators issued a warrant for her arrest, the warrant called the family to deliver the news. >> we were shocked thinking that they have to be wrong. they have to be wrong and that this can't be right. >> this is not the toby that i know? >> exactly. there is no way. i was filled with questions on

why she would do something like this. i have no idea but i knew that she was my sister and that i loved her. >> it is one thing for her brother to support her as this is unfolding. it's another thing for her husband because this is up a trail. it's looking more and more like a betrayal. >> pat was devastated just like the rest of the young family. they were absolutely devastated. and i cannot blame them. >> what does pat tell their sons? about what mom has done? >> it was very hard on the suns. it was extremely hard on them. they could not understand it, that was their mom. >> it did not take long before this intriguing local story. >> a mother of two adult boys. a wife of 30 years. >> blew up international news. >> no one close to toby yang says they know why she would suddenly throwaway her pass and

future. >> we have international attention on this one. it was making the european newscast all over the world. virtually. the killer and the dog lady. >> despite the suspicion that toby had fallen in love with john manard. the family believed he had manipulated her. >> she was the victim? >> she had always been a loving mom. i don't think that they thought that she would willingly leave her two adult sons without telling them where she was going. >> and we just simply do not have any idea why or how this happened. >> the family decided to hold a press conference. >> we were just trying to plead with her to give herself up, we were still fearful for her life and we wanted for her to turn herself in. >> but the days ticked by and no one had heard from toby. the national manhunt involving dozens of agents had hit an impasse. >> at any point did you start to think we're not going to catch them? >> it certainly crossed the mind. you go over time and there's

very, very few times across history that they don't eventually get cut. it's very rare. >> sure enough, investigators got a promising lead. calls traced to her cell phone led them to a used car dealership on the outskirts of the city. the salesman remembered a woman who vaguely resemble toby thought by ring a truck around the time of the escape. but her hair color was different, and her name was molly rose. investigators believed that was toby incognito. >> so we learned that she had purchased are used chevy silverado pick up truck. we also had information that she actually had the registration, and she wanted it sent to a specific address in tennessee. >> the address was a lakeside cabin in rule, tennessee. more than 600 miles away. >> it's a pretty remote location. so not a lot of activity, it is the off-season. and so, we knew there was probably gonna be a lot of people there. so, it was a great place to

hide. >> the fugitive task force blanketed the area. and a swat team headed to the cabin. meanwhile, u.s. marshal jason was cruising the parking lot of a nearby mall. keeping an eye out for toby and manard. suddenly, he spotted a white silverado. >> it was driving like it wasn't from around there. they put the blinkers on in such a fashion, and they would hit their brake lights. it was obvious that they were lost. my gut feeling was telling me that it was them. >> marshall followed the truck on to interstate, and called for backup. >> we proceeded north, the more unit started following the play. not only marks on the ground, as well as vehicles, but these guys had helicopters. >> this operation keeps picking up steam? >> quickly. >> police dash cam video captured the unfolding high-speed chase. the colleague, tony crawford, assumes the lead position. and when everyone was in place, they drove alongside the truck to get a closer look. >> and i saw the face, and the

best i could remember is they had a smirk on their face. little funny grand on their place, and looking at me from the truck. >> he recognized john but was toby with him? and there, right in shock, yes, she was. and this is toby. >> coming up! >> he was walking straight at me. and he stuck out his hand, and he said. i want to be your next dog handler! >> an extraordinary conversation. toby young opens up at about it all. from how things started with john manard. >> this is something i've been craving forever. >> to the moment that she realized that she might have made a horrifying escape. >> i thought, i don't know who this person is! >> when dateline continues! hen dateline continues in my ozempic® tri-zone, i lowered my a1c, cv risk,

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her to this moment. why has she made the fateful decision to help him break out of prison? >> when i pulled up that day, i was kind of sick to my stomach. and part of me was excited. about what was going to happen. and part of me was wishing that it had never gotten this far. >> it's hard to really even imagine the excited part. you are about to blow up your life! >> yes, but i felt like my life needed to be blown up. in some way. it didn't make sense. but, i don't think love very often make sense. >> you heard it right, toby says that this is a love story. she says that she first noticed john manard about a year and a half earlier as she was walking across the prison yard. >> he was walking straight at me, and he stuck out his hand and said. hi, i'm john. i wanted to be your next dog handler! >> he soon joined her program. nothing happened between them,

until about a year later. when he came to toby's rescue. she was being threatened by an inmate who had cornered her. >> i was terrified. and then i saw john manard swaggering up. from behind this inmates that was a costing me. and i felt this sense of relief, because i thought, oh, now here comes somebody that will help me. >> toby started spending more time around manard who is 20 years younger. >> we would have these really deep conversations about life and the world. and this was something i have been craving forever. and somebody to just have conversations with. >> and then, around six weeks before the escape, they crossed the line. >> we were just setting up for a dog event and he just leaned over and kissed me. it was like, i was on cloud nine. it just made it, like, unquenchable. >> there would be no more kisses after that. but toby had fallen hard for manard. >> when people start falling in

love, they change. there is a big smile on their face. was your husband thinking, what is going on with toby? >> i do think he noticed a difference. but he couldn't put his finger on it. and then at one point, he said to me, if i didn't know better, i would think yet you are having an affair. >> toby said that by that point, what had seemed like the perfect marriage was really a dead and one. and their relationship had been in a slow decline for 20 years. ever since they tragically lost their daughter, shortly after birth. >> we never really dealt with losing emily. and, you know, we just buried it. and moved on. and i think when you have something very that is so significant, it is just a wound that does not heal. >> despite their growing divide, toby and her husband quietly went about living their white picket fence life. she focused on raising her sons, became an avid soccer mom, and

like so many women, was the glue that held her family together. and she never felt appreciated. >> i was just invisible because i was trying to be a good person. and, i knew i was invisible to my husband. and, it just felt like, everyone knew that they could depend on me to do something so they just quit even regarding me at all. >> then, she lost her job. and battle the cancer. at the time, her grown kids had moved out of the house. toby says that the pressure and sudden. >> i would be driving somewhere, and i would think. oh, i could just pull over and into the front of that semi truck. and just be done. and, i would find myself thinking, where did that come from? what is it that you think you need to get away from? >> the answer, she realized, was her marriage. so when manard suggested that toby help him escape so they could be together. she couldn't help but think, what if? >> is a part of you wondering, there is a chance that i am

being manipulated right now, and i am just a way for him to escape? >> i did not think that at all. i thought that he was madly in love with me and i knew that i was crazy in love with him. and i remember thinking, if this escape works. or even if it does not work. i am not going to have to say in this marriage anymore. >> but toby, you can get divorced! >> i know! >> you don't need to break an inmate out and run away with this person to escape a bad marriage! >> i do know that. >> so many women, i'm sure, have had that feeling of, i just want to get away from it all. but, you do realize that this is not! >> it is crazy, it is totally nuts. >> but that's the path that i chose. >> about a month before d-day, she and manard came up with a plan. he would lose weight. 25 pounds to be exact. so he could fit into a cardboard box that could fit into one of toby's dog crates. then, toby rented a storage unit. emptied her bank accounts,

disguised herself as molly rose to buy the getaway truck. then silently bid farewell to her old life, and each of her sons. >> i think as a mom, that's the hardest part for me. is that, i couldn't say goodbye to my children. >> it was definitely the hardest part. and, i don't know how i thought that that would work. >> on that sunday, toby nervously drove the safe harbor van to the present. after the dogs, and the dog crate were loaded into the van, she drove back out past the guards, pass the barbed wire. fearing what would happen next. and hoping a little that it would not. >> and i did say, john are you in there? and he did not answer. and i thought, oh think that. he is not in there. and i'll just go to a dog adoption. and we don't have to do this thing. and then i heard this manacled laugh. and i thought, oh crap, he is in there.

and i pulled over, and i just stopped. and then he popped his arm out of the box that was in the crate. and said drive! toby drive! >> they traveled at night. mostly on backcountry roads. but then, just 15 minutes from their hideaway. they got lost and toby saw a sign of manard she had never seen before. >> he said, you know, i don't know why i brought you along if you could not figure out directions. and he was upset, and he was mad, and driving the truck really fast. and swerving. >> were you scared? >> i was scared of that moment. i was really scared because i thought, i don't know who this person is. >> by the time that they arrived at the cabin that they had rented, he was back to the charming, caring man that she had given up her life or. and here, for the first time. there were no guards or prisoners to keep them apart. >> so what was it like? finally being able to be with a man that you are in love with? >> it was beautiful. and it was wonderful. and it was probably the best part of our relationship. was the intimate part of our

relationship. >> that you are finally able to share a bed together? >> yes. >> i felt so loved and i felt so treasured. and i felt so worthy, and, at that moment i thought, it was all worth it! >> everything you done. you said goodbye to your family, your children, your mom and dad. possibly that you could go to prison. >> that moment it felt like, this is why i did it. >> they pass the days playing cards and board games. and romantic dinners by candlelight, they made plans to make identities and start a new life. perhaps in boston. but it wasn't meant to be. they made a mistake in their plan. a big one. remember, toby had given the car dealer her hideaway address in tennessee. >> this is the definition of almost a dumb criminals. no offense. >> that's right, it turns out i wasn't a very good criminal i think. >> and apparently not that good

at hiding either. in disguise, they snuck into town from time to time. to eat at a steakhouse, by a guitar for maynard. and then finally, to see a movie and buy a gps at the mall. the same malware u.s. marshall, jason lamb, spotted their truck. >> the first thing i notice is there is a police car blocking the entrance ramp to the highway. and i said, wow. there must be some wreck up ahead or something. and john said, oh baby. this is for us. this is all for us. >> john manard realizes that his freedom is under attack. the question is, how far will he go to fight for it? >> coming up! a white ride could turn deadly. >> he had left, and shot across the medium. and we all turned across the median. >> everything was like in slow motion. and i couldn't hear anything. it was this weird kind of vortex that i was in. >> and then, what toby has to

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toby young said that she was crazy in love with convict, john manard. together they escape to a linkside cabin where she says that they celebrated with romantic dinners by candlelight.

but the honeymoon was over, and now, they were hurdling down a dark highway with police in pursuit. here's andrea canning with the conclusion of break out! >> the chase was on. reality in the form of dozens of police cars, and two helicopters, was in hot pursuit of toby. and about to bring her odyssey with john to a sudden, and possibly deadly, conclusion. >> everything was like slow motion. i couldn't hear anything. it was this weird vote text that i was in. i couldn't hear anything, and there was silence everywhere. and i looked over at john, and he was talking. but i could not hear him. >> he called loved, any shot across the median. and then we all turned, everyone went across the median. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> he passed a semi truck on

the shoulder but his wheels went off into the grass. and when he came back up on to the pavement he lost control of the truck. >> that's a truck on dash cam video swerving off the road. now they were heading toward a tree at 100 miles per hour. >> i was praying the whole time. please god, just let me die when we hit that tree. because i cannot deal with all of this. >> but they didn't crash. saplings planted around the highway slowed the momentum. and they glide to a halt. >> john said, i have to get out of the car baby. they are going to shoot. and he said, i love you. and then he got out of the car. and i can hear officers yelling, put up your hands! >> all your waist fears were being realized. >> yeah, i was a criminal. and i was being triggered like a criminal. >> and like a celebrity. her two weeks on the run had made toby infamous. >> was this love that brought you into this? >> i don't wanna talk about

that right now. i will at some point. but i don't want to right now. >> john manard got ten years tacked on to his life sentence. he's always insisted that he never forced her to help him escape. >> john didn't like that the media protect him as this manipulating scum bag. >> laura foxx received a letter from maynard with his side of the story. >> he said he loved toby with all he was, and if he hadn't met her there would be no reason to stay with her after the escape. >> back at the prison in kansas, the warden breathed aside of rallies. but he still felt betrayed. >> toby left a wake of battered emotions? >> that's an excellent way to put it. it was, do you even understand the depth of the harm, and the trauma, and the emotional hurts that you have put on people with this? >> so many people feel betrayed by you. >> yes they do. i mean, i betrayed so many

peoples trust. and. love i let the people down who cared about the dog program. i let people down who worked at the present, i let my family down. >> did you ever speak with your husband after the arrest? >> i talk to him once. he said that i had ruined his life, and his life was over. >> we which doubted toby's now ex husband who did not respond. but he exchanged emails with journalist, michael monee. and told him that he had never taken her for granted and always supported to her. >> i don't think his husband saw anything wrong with the marriage. i don't think he thought of the relationship as neglect field, or bed in any way. >> toby feel the guilty to aiding and abetting. and for smuggled a phone into prison. she and her husband divorced. for 27 months, she spent behind bars were tough. she said she was placed on suicide watch three times. >> i was so broken, and so, i didn't know how i was gonna make it through all of this.

>> every now and then she got a love letter from manard. >> one of them was like i wish i could write in on my whitehorse and rescue you from that prison there keeping you in. >> wasn't a fairytale over at this point? >> yeah. finally i got to the point where i was like, you know, i am done with this. >> when she got out, toby wanted desperately to repair the relationship with her two sons. but that proved impossible. her older son kept his distance. and just a year after her release, her youngest son died of cancer. >> when i went to visit him in the hospital, i told him that i always loved him. and that i never stopped loving him. and he said, i know mom. i know you love me. and i asked him if i could give him a hug. and he said no. >> i mean, when you hear a story like that? it wasn't worth it. >> now. >> tell the says that she is

written letters to many of the people that she heard, asking them to forgive her. not many have responded. but one did. warden david. >> hi dave. >> hi toby, how are you? >> i'm good. i didn't think i would meet you here again. >> i know. >> she wanted to apologize in person, so we asked the former warden if he'd meet with her. socially distanced due to the pandemic. at the place where it all happened. he said yes. >> i want to tell you, that honor is something that is very respected and earned. and not given lightly. and i know how much trust you put into me. and i betrayed that. and i am so, so sorry about that. >> i appreciate hearing it. and at this moment, it is kind of what brings a little, additional ability to put it behind. and it's worth it. i wonder about the other people. whose forgiveness is also --

and i hope in some way you can make it up to them. to some degree as well. >> i would like that. >> looking back, do you blame john for this? >> i don't blame john manard them for this. if i blame him for this, that would make me a victim. and i am not a victim. >> toby decided to see john manard one last time. hoping that would help her finally come to terms with her mistake. so ten years after their whirlwind romance, she sat across from him in a prison visiting room. >> it was really, really good because it was truly closure. you know? it was just good to be able to sit down and fill in the blanks. and then walk away. >> today, toby has remarried. happily this time, she says. and she developed a series of work books that she hopes can guide formerly incarcerated women to conduct their lives

after prison. she called the series unleashed. >> i want to share my story to help women unleash themselves. we have these emotional prisons that we build ourselves. and we have the key to unlock them and be free of them. >> what is the lesson here for women who feel trapped? like you did. >> if you ignore the need to make a train, and until you become desperate. then you make the wrong kind of change. i acknowledge that you need to change something. and move forward, and do it in a healthy way. if i had had the insight and the strength to do that, 15 years ago. i could've picked a much healthier way to change my life. >> that is all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin, thank you for watching! >>nk you fo she has a magnetic quality/ dark raven hair, the intense brooding look to her. you're on the edge of your seat