The lodge never had any business at all. He and his father did not earn enough money to buy food and they were very hungry. One night, Perry and his father argued over a cookie and Perry left for Massachusetts. In Massachusetts, Perry wanted to meet an old army man, but along the way he became part of a bad group of people where they all robbed an office supply store in Kansas and got arrested, but Perry escaped in a stolen car. After some time, the Federal Bureau of Investigation found Perry and took him to prison in Kansas, where he met Dick Hickock.