The Bookstore Owner Who Robbed Banks in a Fake Beard
By day, he ran a used bookstore and impressed customers with his knowledge of the classics. By night, he put on a fake beard, picked up an assault rifle, and robbed banks across suburban Chicago while his wife waited in the getaway car.
Between 1990 and 1991, Jeffrey and Jill Erickson, the "Bearded Bandit" and his partner, pulled off eight violent bank robberies, shot at a police officer, and stockpiled 38 guns in their suburban townhouse. When the FBI and Chicago police finally closed in, they discovered the couple had made a pact never to surrender.
This episode traces the manhunt, the…
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