The story of Bobby love, a fugitive who escaped in 1977 from a prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, and who fled to New York to start a new life and a family to which his past was hidden has gone viral after the photographer Brandon Stanton Pick up your story on social networks.
In a series of eleven photographs published in “Humans of New York”, the popular platform that Stanton uses to tell vital anecdotes of anonymous people, users have been able to discover a film-worthy story that begins with statements by the woman from Sees it, Cheryl.
“It was a normal morning, five years ago, I was making tea in the kitchen and Bobby I was in bed. They knocked on the door and twelve policemen suddenly entered, some with the acronym “FBI” on their jackets, “he says Cheryl, who says that while they put their wives on her husband she asked him if he had killed someone.
Bobby Love, whose real name was Walter MillerHe grew up in a poor environment in North Carolina and says his decline began at a Sam Cooke concert when he was fourteen, in 1964.
There he was arrested for the first time by public scandal after shouting at the artist, who suddenly left the stage angry, that “it was not even shit.”
“From there everything goes downhill. I started stealing cars, checks (…) until I entered a band and we started robbing banks,” he says Sees it, which was sent to prison after a robbery.
Once in jail, Sees it He started planning his escape and signed up for forced labor outside the prison.
While he was on the train on his way to his new life in New York, someone asked him what he was still Walter Miller your name.
“I thought about it for a moment and there it was born Bobby love. It was Miller’s death, “he says Sees it, who had to start completely from scratch but managed to get a new social security number, a bank account, a birth certificate, a driver’s license and, finally, a job.
Later he met Cheryl, with whom he formed a family but to whom he never told his true story because “he was so innocent that, although he had never betrayed me, he would have made me tell the police.”
After being arrested in 2015, Cheryl He wrote letters to many relevant people, with testimonies attesting to the quiet and now exemplary life of Sees it.
After a year in prison, he was granted the conditional and Cheryl she managed to forgive her husband, who was forced to legally change her name to that of Bobby love.
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