Father's Day

I'm always touched when really bad people show a glimmer of a soul.  In this case, Glenn Allen Jeffries, a fugitive from drug and assault charges, saved his 11 month-old daughter from their burning home.  Perhaps also relevant to his character, he served time more than ten years ago for shooting, dismembering with an axe, and burnng the torso of John Keane (for reasons I cannot find, although one could argue there really isn't a good reason for such behavior).  He and his father were convicted, each pointing the finger at the other.  Dad got 30 years, son only 10 for third-degree murder.  Not germaine but intriguing to me is that Dad, at the time of the crime, was living in a cave.

Anyway, Glenn Allen was released early from prison in 2002.  Since then, he's run afoul of the law and ended up on the lam.  He was staying with his wife and baby daughter when their wood-burning stove set the house ablaze.  Glenn Allen saved his baby girl and, along with his wife, made it out safely.  After being assured that his daughter would survive and although burned himself, he ran.  The baby's burns were so severe that she needed to be airlifted from the Pittsburgh area to the Shriner's Hospital for Children in Cincinnati, a five-hour drive away.

Despite being the kind of guy who, following some home butchery, can pick up a torso and shove it into a wood burning stove (not the same stove that turns up later in the story), he's a daddy who loves his baby girl.  After saving her life and then fleeing, he couldn't bear to be away from her.  Knowing he was wanted (and presumably bright enough to realize cops would be watching the hospital, though perhaps no level of brightness should be presumed), he still made his way to Cincinnati and visited his little girl.  There he was captured. 

Perhaps not enough to be Father of the Year, but at least he deserves a card.