"Leigh Moore was meant to be celebrating her 40th birthday. Instead she received a visit from the FBI. They told me the man that you've been seeing is not who you think he is; he is on America's Most Wanted, she recalls. When agents showed her a picture of her boyfriend to prove it, Moore fell to pieces and cried. They shattered my whole world. I was devastated, like someone had just died."
"But in 2004 he escaped and, to elude the authorities, hid out in a Toys R Us store in Charlotte. Manchester clandestinely lived there for months, eating what was on the shelves and, most audaciously, trying to pursue a seemingly normal life outside the store. He attended a local church and dated single mother Leigh Moore, then Leigh Wainscott, before his luck ran out for good."
"The wild story is retold in Roofman, a film released on Friday starring Channing Tatum as Manchester and Kirsten Dunst as Moore. Writer-director Derek Cianfrance created an immersive environment that included casting people who knew Manchester in real life and restoring an abandoned Toys R Us by reinstalling electricity, plumbing, lighting and truckloads of period toys."
Leigh Moore received an FBI visit informing her that her boyfriend was on America's Most Wanted. The boyfriend, Jeffrey Manchester, was an army veteran who robbed dozens of McDonald's by sawing through roofs; he was caught in 2000 and sentenced to 45 years. Manchester escaped in 2004 and hid inside a Toys R Us in Charlotte, living there clandestinely for months, eating store merchandise and trying to lead a normal life. He attended a local church and dated Moore during that time. Filmmakers recreated the story in Roofman, restoring an abandoned Toys R Us and casting people who knew Manchester; Moore visited him in prison and appears briefly in the film.
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