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Johnny Madison "The Shootist" Williams Jr. (born January 19, 1951) is one of the most successful bank robbers in American history. After his arrest on July 9, 1994, Williams confessed to 56 bank robberies across the states of California, Texas, and Washington state over an eight-year period, beginning in 1986, usually with the help of his wife, Carolyn, usually known as Carol.
Gilbert William Galvan Jr. (born c. 1957) [1] is an American bank robber. Having spent many of his adult years in prison, Galvan fled to Canada where he assumed the name Robert Lee Whiteman and began a three-year spree robbing banks and jewelry stores in the 1980s. The media dubbed him the Flying Bandit and the Phantom Bandit. [2]
A convicted bank robber named Dewey Calvin Baker had at one point confessed to reporters that he committed the crime, though he later recanted. [15] Another alternate suspect was former bank guard Paul Yoccum, who had been tried and acquitted for stealing $30,000 from a United Bank ATM on Memorial Day weekend in 1990.
On January 6, 1995, McArthur Wheeler[a]and Clifton Earl Johnson robbed two banks in the Greater Pittsburgharea at gunpoint. [3][4]At 2:47 p.m., at the Swissvalebranch of Mellon Bank, one of them stuck up the teller with a semi-automatic handgunwhile the other waited in line.[2] They left together after obtaining US$5,200 (equivalent to $10,398 ...
Scott Scurlock (March 5, 1955 – November 28, 1996) born William Scott Scurlock in Fairfax County, Virginia was the son of a minister. He was nicknamed the Hollywood Bandit (or simply Hollywood ). He got this nickname from his involvement in bank robberies in the Seattle area during the 1990s during which he used acting makeup and disguises.
Luke Elliott Sommer (born June 26, 1986, in Peachland, British Columbia) is a former US Army Ranger and bank robber. After almost two years under house arrest in Canada, he pleaded guilty on May 27, 2008 to the August 7, 2006 robbery of a branch of the Bank of America in Tacoma, Washington. [1] Sommer is currently serving his sentence at ...
Geezer Bandit. "Geezer Bandit" is the name given by the FBI to a man who committed a series of bank robberies in Southern California. [1] The Geezer Bandit is accused of robbing at least sixteen banks so far, many in the San Diego, California area. His last known robbery occurred on Friday, December 2, 2011.
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