David Corbin

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 New Castle Psychiatric Unit 1000 Van Nuys Road P.O. Box E New Castle, IN 47362

The following affidavits were scaned to text files and converted to this web page. The are from copies of the signed and filed affidavits. The underlines were added by David Corbin.

AFFIDAVIT FOR PROBABLE CAUSE STATE OF INDIANA, COUNTY OF MARION, SS DETECTIVE LINDA KAPPES OF THE MARION COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, SWEARS AND/OR AFFIRMS THAT HE BELIEVES, AND HAS GOOD CAUSE TO BELIEVE FROM HER INVESTIGATION, THE FOLLOWING FACTS AND ATTENDNG CIRCUMSTANCES ARE TRUE: Marion County Sheriff's Department Deputies Rudolf Reyes and James Welch were assigned to the Prisoner Transportation Division and on March 18, 2003 were assigned to transport prisoners from Wabash Correctional Facility and Putnamville Correctional Facility to the Marion County Jail to appear in various Marion County Courts. On March 18, 2003 at approximately 1600 hours, they were transporting six prisoners from two separate correctional facilities. The inmates being transported included Kevin Sadler, B/M DOB 4/30/81 gallery # 516474 and David Corbin, W/M DOB 6/16/75 gallery # 459814. A court order specifically directed the Marion Cotmty Sheriff's Department to transport inmate Kevin Sadler to the Marion County Jail to testify as a witness in a pending case. A court order directed the Marion County Sheriff's Department to transport inmate David Corbin to the Marion Cotmty Jail to testify in another case. Deputy Reyes was driving the jail wagon while Deputy Welch was in the passenger seat. Deputies Reyes and Welch stated that while traveling northbound on Meridian Street just south of Maryland Street, both deputies saw the dome light flicker in the wagon causing some alarm as to why it would be on. Deputy Welch then looked back into the rear where the prisoners were sitting and observed inmate David Corbin leaning on the back of his seat attempting to kick the back passenger window out of the van. Deputy Welch observed what was happening, causing Deputy Reyes to suddenly make an attempt to speed up the wagon to get to the Jail to secure the inmates. Deputy Welch then observed David Corbin break the glass Out of the window and jump out the window and run southwest from the wagon. Deputy Reyes then immediately slammed on the brakes and stopped the wagon in an attempt to try to catch David Corbin. Deputy Welch stated he immediately jumped from the wagon and observed the direction of travel of David Corbin and advised Jail Main Control of the incident that occurred and the direction of travel. Deputy Welch stated that he yelled at David Corbin to stop but he continued to run. By the time Deputy Reyes reached the rear of the wagon, David Corbin was completely out of sight around a building. Deputy Reyes then observed inmate Kevin Sadler runing from the wagon in an attempt to flee custody. Deputy Reyes immediately tackled Kevin Sadler in order to get him back into custody. Kevin Sadler was fighting Deputy Reyes to keep from being handcuffed. Deputy Reyes advised Kevin Sadler to stop resisting several times. Deputy Reyes was able to get one handcuff on Kevin Sadler but ,was having a hard time getting the other arm behind him so he yelled at Deputy Welch to hand him another set of handcuffs. Deputy Welch was next to the wagon advising Kevin Sadler to also stop resisting and sprayed him with pepper spray. Deputy Welch then handed his handcuffs to Deputy Reyes and Kevin Sadler was then in custody.

The other inmates in the wagon stayed in the wagon and did not attempt to flee. Deputies Welch and Reyes stated they heard several shots suddenly being fired from the direction in which David Corbin had run. Detective Randall Busic, who is a detective with Indianapolis Police Department, stated he was working part time in full uniform in the downtown area walking northbound on Meridian Street just south of Maryland Street. Detective Busic stated he observed a white male wearing an orange jumpsuit, which appeared to be a jail suit, running with two white males chasing him. One of the white males chasing the subject yelled that the subject in the orange jumpsuit had just escaped from the Sheriff's Jail wagon. Detective Busic immediately ran across the street toward the man in the jumpsuit , when he observed that subject now running towards him. Detective Busic stated he pulled his duty weapon, a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun, from the holster. and told the white male in the jumpsuit "'to stop". The white male, later identified as David Corbin, did stop when as ordered. Detective Busic ordered the subject to put his hands on the rear of a vehicle that was parked in the parking lot. Detective Busic stated he did advise control on his radio that he needed assistance and his location. At this time, Detective Busic ordered David Corbin to put his hands behind his back, which Corbin did. Detective Busic proceeded to handcuff David Corbin. Detective Busic stated he had grabbed the the handcuffs with one hand and grabbed his radio with the other hand so he could advise he had the subject in custody. Detective Busic stated David Corbin. handcuffed with his hands behind him then turned to his left, reached backwards and grabbed Detective Busic's hand gun from the holster. Detective Busic stated he dropped his radio and grabbed Corbin's hands as he struggled to regain control of the handgun. Corbin fired two shots from the gun. Detective Busic stated he heard David Corbin state to him "I'm going to kill you mother fucker." Detective Busic stated he was trying to hold the slide of the handgun so it wouldn't fire, however, two more shots were fired. Detective Busic stated the other two subjects that had been running after David Corbin, who were later identified as Eric Altamore and Edward Trainer, began to assist him in getting control of the weapon and of David Corbin. Eric Altamore stated he observed a white male jump from the back of a Marion County Sherift's jail van and beginning running. Eric stated he then decided to chase the subject who later was identified as David Corbin. Eric stated he observed an Indianapolis Police Department officer and yelled at him that he had just observed David Corbin jump from the back of the Jail wagon. He then stated that David Corbin ran towards Detective Busic who had run across the street to the eastside of Meridian Street. Eric stated the officer ordered David Corbin to stop and was able to place handcuffs on him. Eric stated David Corbin then began to struggle with the officer for control of the officer's weapon when four or five shots were fired. At one point Altamore said that the weapon was pointed in his direction as he hid behind a car. After the shots were fired, Altamore stated he ran over to assist the officer in getting David Corbin handcuffed. Edward Trainer stated he also observed a white male, later identified as Corbin, escape from the Jail wagon. He gave chase with Altamore until Detective Busic handcuffed

Corbin. At that point, he began walking toward the sidewalk and heard two gunshots. He observed Detective Busic struggling with David Corbin, for control of the gun. Trainer hid behind a car and saw the gun pointed in his direction. He saw asphalt spray near him and thought a shot struck the ground near him. After the shooting he stated he went over and assisted with getting the handgun from David Corbin and getting him subdued. Clayton St. John was working at the Hampton Inn. He saw two men chase a white man in an orange jump suit though the lobby. When he followed them to the parking lot, he saw that a police officer had the man in the orange jump suit in custody. St. John then returned to the lobby for a few seconds and then went back outside. He saw the officer and the man in the jump suit, identified as Corbin, struggling for the officer's gun and shots being fired. He heard Corbin state "I am going to kill you" or "I am going to shoot you." St. John thought Corbin directed his comment toward one of the civilians trying to subdue Corbin.: The civilians and the officer finally got Corbin subdued and disarmed. ALL OF THE ABOVE EVENTS OCCURRED IN INDIANAPOLIS, MARION COUNTY, INDIANA. __________________________ LINDA KAPPES, DETECTIVE SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE ME, THIS _______ DAY OF ___________,2003. ________________________________ ________________________________ JUDGE MARION SUPERIOR COURT DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY (The original was signed, dated and stamped on 3/20/03) State of Indiana County of Hendricks PROBABLE CAUSE AFFIDAVIT I, Captain Clarke E. Fine who, being first duly sworn upon his/her oath or having affirmed states: THAT ON 7-24-95 DEPUTIES FROM THE HENDRICKS COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT FOUND THAT PERSON/S UNKNOWN HAD DAMAGED THE SECURITY GLASS IN THE INDOOR RECREATION ROOM AT THE JAIL LOCATED IN DANVILLE, HENDRICKS CO INDIANA. THE SECURITY GLASS WAS SHATTERED BY FORCE, HOWEVER THE WINDOW WAS ABLE TO MAINTAIN IT'S INTEGRITY AND NO ONE WAS ABLE TO GET OUT THROUGH THE

WINDOW. DEPUTIES CHECKED AND FOUND THAT INMATES FROM CELLBLOCK 2-E AND 2-W WERE IN THE RECREATION ROOM AT APPROXIMATELY 11OOAM WHICH IS THE TIME THE WINDOW WAS DAMAGED. THE MAIN SUSPECT WAS DEFENDANT DAVID CORBIN AS HE IS AN EXTREME ESCAPE RISK AND HAS ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM LAWFUL DETENTION BEFORE. THIS OFFICER INTERVIEWED DEFENDANT BEN GILL IN MY OFFICE. MR GILL WAIVED HIS MIRANDA WARNINGS AND ADVISED THAT MR CORBIN WAS INDEED THE SUBJECT WHO BROKE THE WINDOW BY KICKING AT THE GLASS. MR-GILL NAMED ANOTHER INMATE AS ASSISTING MR CORBIN. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE OTHER INMATE NAMED BY MR GILL WAS AWAITING A BOND REDUCTION AND WAS SUBSEQUENTLY OR ' ED BY THE COURT TWO DAYS LATER. THIS OFFICER THEN INTERVIEWED TWO OTHER INMATES WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE TIME OF THE ESCAPE ATTEMPT. THE GENTLEMEN WERE INTERVIEWED SEPARATELY. BOTH MEN ADVISE THAT MR CORBIN DID ATTEMPT TO KICK OUT THE SECURITY GLASS AND THAT HE WAS ASSISTED BY MR GILL. MR GILL AND MR CORBIN HAD TALKED PREVIOUSLY ABOUT ESCAPING. BOTH MEN KICKED AT THE GLASS SHATTERING IT. WHEN THEY COULD NOT BREAK THROUGH MR GILL APPROACHED THE WEIGHT MACHINE WHICH IS LOCATED IN THE RECREATION ROOM AND TOOK APART A BENCH IN AN ATTEMPT TO USE THE METAL BENCH TO FORCE OPEN THE SECURITY GLASS. HOWEVER AT THAT TIME THE JAIL OFFICERS ANNOUNCED OVER THE PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM THAT RECREATION WAS OVER AND IT WAS TIME FOR LUNCH. AFTER THE INMATES WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE RECREATION ROOM THE DAMAGE WAS DISCOVERED. CAPT BRINKER, JAIL COMMANDER ADVISES THAT THE COST OF REPAIRING THE SECURITY GLASS HAS BEEN ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN ELEVEN HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS. AT THIS TIME REQUEST WARRANTS BE ISSUED FOR THE ARRESTS OF DAVID CORBIN AND BEN GILL FOR THE OFFENSES OF ATTEMPTED ESCAPE AS C FELONIES AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AS AN A MISDEMEANOR. . I swear (affirm) under penalty of perjury as specified by I.C. 35-44-2-1 that the foregoing representations are true. ___________________________ Signature ___________________________ Date (The original was signed and dated 8/1/95)

DOC Number 901698 First Name DAVID Middle Name E Last Name CORBIN Suffix Date of Birth 06/16/1975 Gender Male Race White Facility/Location New Castle Psychiatric Unit Earliest Possible Release Date *02/08/2039