Women Who Escaped From Prison

Sarah Jo Pender

In 2000, Sarah Jo Pender met convicted drug dealer and felon Richard Hull at a Phish concert. They would soon begin dating and started sharing a house in Indianapolis with Andrew Cataldi and Tricia Nordman. One morning, Pender bought a 12-gauge shotgun from a local Walmart, and that evening, Hull used it to kill their two roommates.She wasn’t at home when he committed the double murder, but she would later return to the blood-filled house to find them dead. Pender then proceeded to help Hull grab blankets and ride with him in his truck to dispose of the bodies in a trash bin. She never reported the killings to local police, and she returned to work the next day as if nothing happened. She claimed that she was afraid that she would become Hull’s third victim.