David Corbin



Before reading this I want it understood that escape is not the answer.  David mentions that he does not want the youth to think of him as a hero for his escapes.  He may never get out of prison because of them.  

Yes some have successfully escaped and evaded the law for days, weeks, months or years.  They are always looking over their shoulders.  In the end they get caught and their new lives are ruined.  Is it worth it?  They are going back to prison when they may have been released before that.  David is a lot worse off because he tried to escape.


Dear Lee

I am sending you some paperwork to read about me.   It begins with my most recent escape of March this year and to the one in 1995 my 1 attempt from jail.

I was sent to prison in 1991 at the age of 16 for fighting with a school teacher who smacked me at the Indian Boys School, a juvenile facility.  I was waived over as an adult and sentenced to 3 years and sent to a crazy chaotic prison and all the bad things that happen to kids in prison happened to me.

I got out in October 1992 and moved back in with my Mom and asshole Step-Dad.  Did not last long as they treated me like a kid and my whole attitude changed in prison to think as an adult.  A little over a month after release from prison I met up with a guy I was in prison with and he talked me into doing a hold up with him.  I needed money and was trying to prove I was a man.  That was the beginning.   Eventually I got caught in 1993.  I was in the middle of a crime spree of business burglaries and  a car theft/ chop shop ring.  In July 1993 my girlfriend told me she was pregnant.  April 7th, 1994 I was sentenced for 35 years in Marion County for the robbery and business burglaries.  My daughter was born on April 22nd 1994 as I was going to prison.  I was full of animosity and rage and did not understand where all went wrong.  I had no hope of being free unless I escaped.   So in April 1995 my first escape took place and I was on the run for about 2 months and out there I was a man.  I was working and not doing crime, I was given what I was never given the chance to do.  I was 19 then, ever since then I have been on segregation “supermax” and have tried extreme escapes only to fail due to bad luck.

I have picked up 45 years for the escape and the attempts!  So I have 80 years all together and after my most recent one I will have over  100 years in prison and I have not murdered, raped or anything that you would think.

I can’t stop trying to escape now and it is basically I will get away or they will kill me trying.  I don’t say this in my story to the youngsters because they tend to glamorize that attitude.  I just want to get my story out before I die.  I am not a bad person, ask anyone who knows me, they will tell you that and mean it.  I could have killed that officer in March but did not.  The newspapers were incorrect, they made it sound like I was not handcuffed and just attacked the police and fired.   As you see in the affidavit it will show I was cuffed in back when I took his gun.  It was a very spontaneous thing, my plan was to take the siren off the window, kick the window out, jump out and run away from the van.  The deputies could not leave the van unsecured with 5 prisoners in it.  My plan worked until a civilian stuck his nose in and chased me yelling for police.  I was free until then!

I got to trial in September this year and am facing 188 charges, convicted on all charges.  I wanted to give you a brief glimpse of what I want to put on your site on my story to this point in my life.   I want to write a book someday.

This is not my whole story, just what I have in articles and paperwork.

As soon as I hear back from you on space etc. I will get back to you if you are still interested in my story.

If you know any crazy helicopter pilots looking to help a trapped man please sent them my way . .  

Anyway I hope that I will hear back from you.  You keep this paperwork I’m sending.  I copied it for you to keep!  Please give me some advice on how I should write my story out etc.   This is the first time I have told this.

I will let you go for now and hope to hear back from you.  Until then take care.

Sincerely

David

David Corbin 901698
WVCF – SHU
P O Box 1111
Carlisle, IN 47838

Affidavits for probable cause

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