A Quiet Family

Richard Boucher and his wife Debbie lived in a small mobile home community, on a remote road about five miles north of Chatsworth, GA. Their home was situated in a valley between the mountain ridges of Chattahoochee National Forest. The Bouchers were quiet, private people, and although they've lived in the area for 27 years, they mostly kept to themselves. Richard supported his family taking odd maintenance jobs for cash. The Bouchers had raised a daughter, now 25. Strangely enough, she never knew her parents as anything other than Eric and Debbie Coleman. Something seems amiss here, doesn't it?

It never occurred to any of their neighbors to question things and run a background check on this family. If they did, they might have found out that Richard Paul Boucher had escaped from the Chesapeake, VA prison in 1982. He was serving a 10-year sentence for robbery, but the couple had other plans. After his wife helped him escape, they sold their car for cash and just walked. They slept under the cover of the virginal woods and walked through two states, until they came to Northern Georgia and made it their home.

On May 13, 2009, 56-year-old Boucher was arrested on a fugitive warrant in Murray County, along the Tennessee line; 53-year-old Debbie Boucher was arrested and charged with hindering apprehension of a criminal.

The above account is based on a true story. Background checks protect peaceful citizens from being deceived and/or harmed by a cunning criminal.