Toby Lynn Young, the local man who remained a fugitive for almost five years, will be the subject of an upcoming episode of “I (Almost) Got Away With It,” a show which airs on the Investigation Discovery cable television network.
Representatives from the show were in town last week to do background on the story, but, according to informed sources, no filming was seen done, and no one at the jail was interviewed for the show.
According to Milton Bowling, chief deputy at the time of Young’s escape from jail in DeKalb County, a crew from the show traveled to Nashville, where Bowling is now employed, to interview him for the show.
“They came to Nashville to interview me last Thursday,” Bowling told the Review.
“They spent about an hour-and-a-half with me, and they also interviewed the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations agent who worked the case and former DeKalb County Sheriff Lloyd Emmons.
“They told me that it is going to be aired about 11 weeks from now,” Bowling added.
Young was initially taken into custody in September, 2004 after a high-speed chase involving a stolen van, which took law enforcement through parts of DeKalb and Cannon counties before they managed to apprehend him.
He escaped from the DeKalb County Jail soon afterward, and was on the TBI’s Top 10 most wanted list for some time before his capture in Mexico in January, 2009, when he attempted to apply for a passport in his brother’s name.