How did Margo Freshwater, a young woman with no criminal background, end up a murderer? The story begins in the office of Glenn Nash, a hard-drinking lawyer whose grip on sanity was beginning to slip. Nash was being investigated by the Memphis Bar Association for legal misconduct. He had come to the deluded conclusion that agents from the bar were conspiring against him. Margo had come seeking Nash’s help in getting her boyfriend out of jail. Margo had no money to pay Nash – she couldn't even afford a place to stay while in town. Although broke himself, Nash agreed to take the case pro bono. He also put Margo up at a local boarding house.

The married forty-one year old and the eighteen-year-old then began an affair. But Nash was increasingly consumed by paranoid delusions that agents from the Memphis Bar were after him. One evening he told Margo’s landlady they were going bowling. Instead a three-state crime spree ensued. During a liquor store hold up, Nash ordered Margo to stay up front while he took the cashier to the back room. A customer came into the store and later told investigators that Margo waited on him. Meanwhile, Nash remained out of sight, accusing the cashier of being an agent of the Memphis Bar. The cashier, Hillman Robbins, was tied up with rope and shot five times in the head. A .22 and .38 were both used in the murder. He left behind a wife and two children. Witnesses saw two people matching Margo and Nash’s description fleeing the liquor store and hopping into a white Ford Fairlane. Twelve days later eyewitnesses described an almost identical scene at a Florida convenience store. A couple exited the building and sped off in a Ford Fairlane. Inside the store, was the body of Esther Bouyea. She had been shot in the neck. Police at first did not connect the murders until they found Nash’s car abandoned on a highway shoulder. In the trunk they found rope and bullet shells that matched what was used in the murder of Hillman Robbins. The car was traced to Glenn Nash and an APB was issued.

But the couple’s murderous rampage was not over. A cab driver, C.C. Surratt, was shot to death shortly after picking up Glenn and Margo. The police staked out all the nearby bus stations. Their efforts soon paid off. Nash and Freshwater were arrested and taken to Hernando, Mississippi where they were charged in connection with C.C. Surratt's murder. Glenn Nash was declared insane and ruled incompetent to stand trial and incarcerated at a mental hospital. Margo stood trial for the murder of C.C. Surratt. She testified that she was held prisoner by Nash and forced to participate in the crimes under threat of death. Investigators disagree over Margo’s culpability in the crime spree, as did the jury, which failed twice to reach a verdict. Three years later Margo was tried for the murder of the first victim, Hillman Robbins. She was found guilty and sentenced to 99 years in state prison.

Eighteen months later, Margo and another inmate, Fay Fairchild, scaled a barbed wire fence, hitched a ride, and disappeared. From Tennessee, the two went to Baltimore, Maryland. Fay Fairchild was arrested in Chicago, some time later. The last time Margo Freshwater was seen was on a street corner in Baltimore, Maryland where she said goodbye to Fay. After that, Margo Freshwater seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth.

UPDATE: Shortly after we finished filming this story, Margo Freshwater was caught. Police found her in Columbus, Ohio, living under the alias Tonya McCartor, a married mother of three. She was taken into custody outside an athletic club by agents for the Ohio Bureau of Investigation. At the time Freshwater was with her husband, youngest son, and grandchild – none of whom where aware of her criminal past. Freshwater was re-incarcerated at the same Tennessee Prison she escaped from 32 years earlier.