He Stole Nine Banks and Became Their Myth - Robin the Hood's Secret

True Nightmare Stories · Oct 16, 2026 · 17m

He Stole Nine Banks and Became Their Myth - Robin the Hood's Secret

A man robbed nine banks across New Mexico, left tellers unaware, and inspired a city to turn him into a Robin Hood myth while investigators chased a cloud of red dye and a single license plate. How did Byron Chubbuck vanish into invisibility long enough to build a legend-and who finally named him?

In this episode, we trace the timeline from December 29, 1998, when two northeast Albuquerque banks were robbed within hours, through a string of roughly six more robberies by March 1999, to the moment the FBI publicly called the…