Three Star Puzzles

 

Michel Vaujour was a notorious bank robber who’d been incarcerated several times. In 1986, he was serving time in the high-security section of Paris’ Santé Prison. Michel’s wife Nadine was left to fend for herself. Another woman might have filed for divorce, applied for a job, or moved back in with mom and dad. Nadine took flying lessons. Under an assumed name, she learned to pilot a helicopter. Once she’d mastered this unusual skill, Nadine rented a chopper from a local airfield and headed to Santé Prison. There, she expertly hovered above the prison yard while Michel, armed with a realistic-looking toy gun, climbed a rope ladder to join her. The helicopter whisked them away over the Paris skyline. If this were an action movie, the end credits might have appeared at this point. But Michel and Nadine were captured only four months later. They both served jail time. Today, they’re free and living quietly under the radar. We hope.