(CBS News)
Produced by Paul LaRosa as great as Sarah Prior
Before Colton Harris-Moore became important as an general fugitive, prior to he captivated some-more than 100,000 fans upon Facebook as great as prior to he stole the singular airplane, he was the single unequivocally without the friend teen behind in his hometown of Camano Island, Wash.
“Colton Harris Moore is zero though the thief, the criminal,” Camano proprietor Josh Flickner says. “He’s not Robin Hood. He’s not Jesse James. He’s not James Bond.”
Colton’s crime debauch upon this willing island began when he was only 10 years old. He shortly modernized to violation in to homes, regulating stolen credit cards as great as hidden boats. By the age of 19, he has the $10,000 cost tab upon his conduct as great as the annuity hunter upon his trail.
In the summer of 2010, residents of Camano Island reached the violation indicate as great as collected to plead rumors which were frightening everyone.
“We wish him stopped,” says the male during the gathering. “Most of us what him dead, period.”
A throng roars, “No,” in response.
How did it come to this? Why would any the single wish to kill this uneasy teenager?
“I mean, he is the criminal,” says Ashley Martin, who grew up with Colton upon Camano Island. “But during the same time, there unequivocally is the small partial of me which only unequivocally feels bad for him given I’ve great well known him, we know, roughly my total life.”
Martin remembers Colton as “a unequivocally honeyed small kid.”
Classmate Jessica Wesson remembers the small child who regularly desired animals as great as airplanes.
“He was unequivocally smart, unequivocally in to airplanes. He had the Boeing book of all the planes which they essentially made,” she tells “48 Hours Mystery” match Peter Van Sant.
Photos: Life & crimes of the Barefoot Bandit
“And did he discuss it we what he longed for to do for the vital when he grew up?”
“He referred to which he longed for to be the pilot,” she replies. “When we listened he was hidden planes, we was like, well, which kinda creates sense.”
Wesson says she never went to Colton’s house. Maybe he didn’t wish her to see the decayed trailer where he grew up with his mother, Pam Kohler.
“Why do we consider Colton went from being this honeyed child which we knew when we initial met him in to the criminal?” Van Sant asks.
“Probably his upbringing,” Wesson replies. “I listen to his mom wasn’t so nice…”
“48 Hours” Investigator Paul Ciolino unclosed justice annals which showed the dozen calls to child protecting services by the time Colton was only 14.
“The emanate here with Colton is not so most what he did, though who combined this kid,” Ciolino explains. “There was earthy abuse. There was mental abuse. There was earthy neglect.”
Author Bob Friel is essay the book about Colton’s hold up called “The Barefoot Bandit: The True Tale of Colton Harris-Moore, New American Outlaw.”
“I was carrying nightmares when we began to investigate his childhood… we would literally arise up in the persperate meditative about the little things… Colt went through,” Friel says. “His biological father was in as great as out of which trailer home which Pam was in.”
Colton’s father, Gordon Moore, has been often absent from his life. But when Colton was 12, Gordon was convicted of attack for choking the boy. Colton told the child services caseworker which his mother, Pam, was angry – during him – for pursuit 911.
Colton had nowhere to turn. As the single box workman wrote, “Colton wants mom to stop celebration as great as get the pursuit as great as have food in the house, mom refuses.”
“Pam chose drink over everything… It busted his life,” says Jacquie Staggs, who has great well known Pam given Colton was born.
Asked how Colton got his name, she says, “If we ask Pam, she’ll discuss it we she declared him after the beer.”
“You’re revelation me which Pam declared her son after Colt 45? The malt liquor?” Van Sant asks.
“Uh-huh. That’s what she told me.”
“48 Hours” longed for to try as great as encounter Colton’s mother. Investigator Paul Ciolino as great as Producer Sarah Prior assimilated Van Sant upon the travel up the mud drive to find the little answers.
“That’s her house. Sarah, if she calls out, because do not we contend which you’re the a single who left the note,” instructs Van Sant.
A homemade pointer out front shows Pam does not similar to visitors. It reads: NOTICE IF YOU GO PAST THIS SIGN YOU WILL BE SHOT.
Peter Van Sant: Hello, Pam?
Pam Kohler: Who have been you?
Sarah Prior: Hi, I’m Sarah. we left we the note the alternative day from CBS…
Pam: I’m removing my shotgun right now.
Sarah: We only wanna speak to you, Pam. Can we only speak to us for the moment?
Pam: I’m removing my shotgun now. Get out of here!
Later, Pam altered her mind. Off camera, she told “48 Hours” she’s regularly been the great mom to Colton. She additionally showed us the collage he done when he was 15, filled with images of things Colton competence contend he was blank in life: money, food and, of course, airplanes.
“When Colton Harris-Moore would mangle in to the eighth month home… he would operate the shower. He would rinse his garments as great as he would nap upon the bed or nap upon the couch,” Friel says. “…He was not the normal child violation in to take drink as great as repairs the house.”
But along the way, Colton did some-more than some-more only squeeze the break as great as the shower. He stole laptops, iPods, dungeon phones as great as jewelry.
Read the minute from the single of Colton’s purported victims
Colton’s former partner in crime as great as self-described smarts of the operation is Harley Davidson Ironwing.
“Would we contend we brought Colton in to the universe of crime?” Van Sant asks Ironwing.
“I would contend we brought him in to the universe of burglaries,” he replies.
“What did we guys do together?”
“Hit houses. Stole cars.”
“Did he ever discuss it we he longed for to be the commander the single day?”
“No. He only longed for to take planes as great as only fly ‘em. …I have large people which censure me for what he is today.”
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By 2006, Colton was 15, some-more than 6 feet tall, as great as longed for by the law. He ate food where he could, hidden from empty houses, as great as outlayed months from the cops in the woods, in eighth month homes as great as even the tree residence upon the neighbor’s property.
The adults as great as military were ill of it. Acting upon the tip, deputies went to his mother’s residence to detain him. All they found was the note which Colton left for his mother, which reads: “Cops wish to play, huh? Well, it’s not no lil game. It’s fight as great as discuss it them that.”
Read Colton’s note
“Colton says, ‘It’s war.’ What do we consider he means?” Van Sant asks Ironwing.
“Come as great as locate me if we can,” he replies. “It’s the fight of the minds. He wants to uncover them they aren’t as intelligent as they consider they are.”
It was right away Feb 2007. After multiform slight escapes from the law, Colton pennyless in to the residence whilst the owners was out of town. A nearby resident saw the light upon as great as called the police. After the moving two-hour standoff, Colton was eventually arrested. He didn’t appear to similar to the media attention.
Colton was condemned to 3 years in the youthful system. Just the single year later, in Apr 2008, he climbed out the window of the median house.
The follow was behind on.
