In 2015, the FBI knocked on The Door of Bobby Love.Bobby had been living a double life for decades after escaping from a North Carolina prison. His family was not aware of his double identity.
This story of Bobby has been published by the popular Facebook page, The House of New York, in the form of 11 posts, which has since gone viral.
"It was a normal morning five years ago when they got in the door," said Bobby's wife, Sheryl Lou. When the door opened, an officer came in, pushing them, Sheryl said. When they came in, the officer asked her husband her name, to which her husband called her Bobby Lou. Then they asked their husband the real name.
Bobby responded slowly.
"You ran away," an FBI officer replied. Then Cheryl Lou found out that her husband's real name was Not Bobby Lu, but Walter Miller, and he fled prison in 1977 and came to New York. After 37 years of dual life, he came under the law in 2015. During this period they formed their own family, their children who were young.
When Brandon Stanton of The House of New York found out about The Story of Bobby and Cheryl, they shared it on their page from which it went viral. Bobby or Walter was born in a poor house, according to the New York Post. He was third among the 7 siblings. Their mother raised them alone. They started to return to the bank after having a bad childhood.
After a while, he left his gang and started returning to the bank alone. Once they were returning to a Bank of North Carolina, the manager pressed the silent alarm button. After a while, they were caught in the colors. He was sentenced to 25 to 30 years in prison. Good conduct led him to a low-cost prison, from which he planned to escape.
Bobby worked at a radio station in prison, so he had a simple pair of clothes besides the prisoners' clothes. Once their duty was on the road. After the guard knew the routine, he sat in the bus and fled.
According to News Abzor, Bobby married in 1985 and got married in 2015. They were handed back to North Carolina. She was angry at not telling her husband the original, but she couldn't hate them, Sheryl said. She encouraged her husband.
The story of Cheryl and Bobby/Walter and their love have been liked and shared millions of times on social media.