Love risks it all in prison break // Helicopter hijacker did it for her man

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: August 21, 1986| Author: | Copyright information

Last December, while the rest of Greenville, S. C., braced for a snowstorm and finished Christmas shopping, Joyce Bailey rented a helicopter, pulled a gun on its pilot and forced him to land inside the walls of a state prison a few miles away.

Among the men who came running toward the chopper was Jesse Glenn Smith, 36 years old, doing time for armed robbery. Like the country-music song says, "Ladies Love Outlaws," and Joyce loved Jesse bad enough to risk her life for him.

The lovers managed to make a spectacular escape, along with two other prisoners. Four days later, the fugitives were ...

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