The Bearded Bandit and His Bank Heists
A fake beard. A baseball cap. A police scanner in his hand. Between 1990 and 1991, one man walked into bank after bank across suburban Chicago, announced a hold-up with military precision, and vanished before anyone could stop him. Outside, his wife waited with a stolen getaway car.
The FBI and Chicago police knew only his disguise, and bank employees gave him a name: the Bearded Bandit. But as the heists grew more violent, and a routine traffic stop ended in gunfire against a police officer, the hunt became a race against a man who had nothing left to lose.
This episode follows the trail of…
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