He Was Making a Night Deposit. Three Strangers Needed Him Dead.

FBI Files · Oct 23, 2026 · 49m · transcript

In 1988, a 28-year-old record store manager was shot to death in his van outside an Ohio bank. The cash was still in the vehicle. Robbery was not the motive. The FBI would discover that three Hell’s Angels had mistaken his yellow van for a rival gang member’s — and that the killing was an initiation ritual. This is the case that helped establish DNA evidence in federal court. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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