Hull was arrested a couple of days later in the connection to the murders, and Pender would be arrested the following day. Almost a year after their arrests, evidence started pointing toward Pender as the mastermind of this double murder, indicating that she manipulated Hull into killing their roommates. The deputy prosecutor in her case labeled her as the “female Charles Manson,” and she would be sentenced to 110 years in prison.In 2008, Pender managed to escape from Rockville Correctional Facility with the help of Correctional Officer Scott Spitler and former cellmate Jamie Long. Spitler claims that Pender manipulated him into driving her out of the facility in a prison van, and then Long would pick her up in her car. They would both later be arrested and convicted for helping Pender escape. The TV show
America’s Most Wanted featured her story later that year, and she was soon arrested in Chicago, where she was living and working under a new name.She remains in prison today.
