Speaker 1: Gampsite Media.
Speaker 2: See, hey, Rory, can you recap for us what happened
Speaker 2: last episode?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys are in recap corner with Rory Scovell.
Speaker 3: Basically what we got into the last episode. David Gampt
Speaker 3: works for Loomis Fargo to but in the fact he
Speaker 3: thinks it's Wells Fargo, and they transfer money and they
Speaker 3: hold money, and.
Speaker 4: He decided that he wanted a new life.
Speaker 3: And came across a co worker, Kelly, who I don't
Speaker 3: know that even wants a new life, maybe the biggest
Speaker 3: pothead I've ever listened to the voice of. And he
Speaker 3: decided that they're going to steal seventeen million dollars from
Speaker 3: Loomis Fargo, and Kelly's friend Steve is going to mastermind
Speaker 3: the entire ordeal. And we learned that David gamp had
Speaker 3: teamed up with a bunch of morons, including himself, in
Speaker 3: trying to pull off the biggest heist in American history.
Speaker 5: Okay, then to see how our heroes fare this episode,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna hand it off to our friend Johnny Knoxville.
Speaker 5: With episode two of Crimeless Hillbilly Heist.
Speaker 6: David Gant wakes up on October fourth, nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 6: feeling like he's got the whole world fooled. When he
Speaker 6: climbs out of the bed he shares with his wife, Tammy,
Speaker 6: he still hasn't even given her a hint about his plan.
Speaker 7: I should have been hired as an actor from that one.
Speaker 7: I played it off like nothing's different, you know, even
Speaker 7: visiting parents the weekend before.
Speaker 6: He packs his lunch just like he does every day
Speaker 6: and jumps in his truck to go to work.
Speaker 7: I had this pretty little red Dodge Dakota and it
Speaker 7: was a long drive King's Mountain to Charlotte, and I
Speaker 7: used to drive like a demon.
Speaker 6: It's a long commute despite David's outlaw driving habits. And
Speaker 6: just like he does every morning, David listens to the
Speaker 6: radio show John Boy and Billy.
Speaker 5: I wanted to write to let y'all know that not
Speaker 5: all prisoners are mean and dangerous.
Speaker 7: Some are merely stupid.
Speaker 6: This morning, John Boy and Billy are doing a musical
Speaker 6: segment and what should come on but take the money
Speaker 6: and run?
Speaker 7: Ca on, take the money and Run. I thought this
Speaker 7: is an omen.
Speaker 6: The lyrics to this song are absolutely perfect. It's about
Speaker 6: two young lovers who want to avoid a great, big
Speaker 6: hassle while robbing a castle, and most importantly they yes
Speaker 6: take the money and run. One of them slips away
Speaker 6: with the f fourmentioned money, and then the lovers meet
Speaker 6: up the very next day. Anyway, David didn't know exactly
Speaker 6: when Kelly was coming down to Mexico. It probably wouldn't
Speaker 6: be the very next day, but still.
Speaker 7: I just felt great about it, and I'm singing along
Speaker 7: as one is wont to do off key loudly poorly.
Speaker 7: It just really set the tone for the day.
Speaker 6: At this moment, David feels like he's already left the
Speaker 6: past behind. The good, the bad. It's all in the
Speaker 6: rear view of his Dodge Dakota in the heist the Money,
Speaker 6: the trip down south of Mexico with Kelly. Fate has
Speaker 6: already spelled it out for him. It was all gonna unfold,
Speaker 6: just like the song on the radio. His last day
Speaker 6: as David Gant is gonna go great. From SmartLess Media,
Speaker 6: Campside Media and Big Money Players in partnership with iHeart Podcasts.
Speaker 6: I'm Johnny Knoxville and you're listening to Crime List Bill
Speaker 6: Billy Heist. This is our second episode going South. You
Speaker 6: already know about David Gant working his ass off to
Speaker 6: steal two thousand pounds of cash from the vault all
Speaker 6: by himself. But what we haven't gotten into just yet
Speaker 6: is the Kelly Jane Campbell.
Speaker 4: Of it all.
Speaker 6: David said he texted Kelly that morning to let her
Speaker 6: know that they were on. He asked her to get
Speaker 6: him a money belt so he could sneak some cash
Speaker 6: in New Mexico, and also a pair of bolt cutters
Speaker 6: so he could break into where the bigger bills were
Speaker 6: kept in the vault. Kelly, of course, never got around
Speaker 6: to getting either of those things.
Speaker 7: I could have probably easily doubled my money.
Speaker 6: Take say Lovey instead. Kelly's in position in her pickup truck,
Speaker 6: waiting across from Loomis Fargo's chain link front gate. Kelly
Speaker 6: described her critical role at this stage in the plan
Speaker 6: to journalist Jeff Diamond.
Speaker 8: She had a very good memory about what happened during
Speaker 8: the height, at least for what you remembered.
Speaker 7: Uh, and that was bad. I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: She was smoking marijuana the whole time. Can't you remember anything?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's called crs. Can't remember shit. I guess it
Speaker 10: was from the fact that I was smoking too much
Speaker 10: weed and not thinking properly.
Speaker 2: Have you been officially diagnosed with that?
Speaker 10: Yes? I have been officially diagnosed.
Speaker 6: David's escape from his money worries and his marriage was
Speaker 6: a vivid fantasy that now seemed real running off the
Speaker 6: Mexico with Kelly. Kelly could only pretend to share this fantasy.
Speaker 6: Her escape was weed.
Speaker 10: It was just like whatever. I didn't really put much
Speaker 10: thought into it. Once I'd smoked, you know, the reality
Speaker 10: of it was just like, eh, it's not that bad.
Speaker 6: Clearly, her involvement in the heightst fit into the category
Speaker 6: of things she didn't want to spend too much time
Speaker 6: thinking about anyway. While David was breaking his back lugging
Speaker 6: cash in the vault, Kelly's at the front gate, just
Speaker 6: sitting in her truck, and Kelly's friend Steve, the self
Speaker 6: appointed mafia don running the heist, is parked in the
Speaker 6: Sedan next tour along with two other geniuses. Steve has
Speaker 6: roped into the plan, his cousin Scott and his other
Speaker 6: dumb little buddy Eric, while David sweating through his socks.
Speaker 6: None of these three people are really doing much of anything.
Speaker 10: I don't think there was a lot of preparation I
Speaker 10: had to do.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm struggling. I was a skinny, a little worry guy.
Speaker 6: The only thing any of these people did while David
Speaker 6: was working to pull off the second biggest cash heist
Speaker 6: in American history is call him and page him over
Speaker 6: and over again.
Speaker 7: And then I look and there's this big bag jammed
Speaker 7: up in the corner, and it's got a little over
Speaker 7: half a minute.
Speaker 6: So I throw it on top, and then more beeps
Speaker 6: from the pager and another call on the Looma's phone.
Speaker 7: This is when they try to convince me to come
Speaker 7: out with half a million dollars. Right, I'm not throwing
Speaker 7: my life away for half a million dollars.
Speaker 10: Never again decides to get greedy, I guess. So I
Speaker 10: have to keep texting him and calling him, and he's
Speaker 10: getting pissed off because he's working his balls off and
Speaker 10: they're loading up money. He's like, I'm taking the ones,
Speaker 10: I'm taking the files, I'm taking it all. So he's
Speaker 10: taken forever to get out.
Speaker 6: Yes, David is being extremely thorough. He takes so long
Speaker 6: that Steve starts to get paranoid. How long can it
Speaker 6: take to grab some cash out of an unluck vault?
Speaker 6: And drive away. Is David betraying them? How could he?
Speaker 10: Steve was just like, you gotta make sure he's still
Speaker 10: up with it. He still wants to do this, he said,
Speaker 10: just make sure that you know he's still thinking that
Speaker 10: you're going to go with him.
Speaker 6: So at Steve's urging, Kelly kept blowing up David's pager
Speaker 6: with one four to threes, the I love you emoji
Speaker 6: of the nineties.
Speaker 10: I would keep texting him I love you on the pager,
Speaker 10: which is not like I said, one four to three,
Speaker 10: And I don't know how many times I put that
Speaker 10: in there while he was loading the money.
Speaker 6: Why one four to three I has one letter, love
Speaker 6: has four letters, U has three letters. There you go. So,
Speaker 6: finally David has successfully loaded all the money into the
Speaker 6: van while ignoring dozens of alerts on his pager.
Speaker 7: And the pile of money I ended up with was
Speaker 7: around three and a half four foot tall, about approximately
Speaker 7: nine feet long, and it weighed over a ton.
Speaker 6: He calls Kelly the letter know he's coming out, but
Speaker 6: that's when the backgate won't open.
Speaker 7: So here's my options. I either moved the vans around
Speaker 7: inside or I transferred the money to another van.
Speaker 6: So David moves several vans blocking his way between him
Speaker 6: and the front gate, which isn't stuck.
Speaker 7: Thank god, I'm a decent driver. That was a pretty
Speaker 7: good driver back then.
Speaker 6: This new gate that David's going to use, it's the
Speaker 6: gate where Kelly, Steve, and the other Nimrods have been
Speaker 6: waiting all this time. Finally, the nondescript white van David's
Speaker 6: driving makes it to the gate, the headlights shining through
Speaker 6: the chain link. Kelly watches as David hops out to
Speaker 6: open the gate, the second gate he's tried tonight, so
Speaker 6: close to freedom.
Speaker 10: And the gate's stuck. The gate won't open, So we're saying, like,
Speaker 10: oh god, what do we do? What do we do?
Speaker 10: And he's struggling trying to get.
Speaker 6: The gate outen I mean, someone could get out and
Speaker 6: help David. He's on the other side of an unlocked
Speaker 6: chain link gate with a van full of seventeen million dollars.
Speaker 10: But Steve didn't won't get to see him.
Speaker 6: So all right, if Steve gets out, it will ruin
Speaker 6: the whole reservoir. Dogs thing about not being able to
Speaker 6: identify each other. Steve's the kingpin, the head of the
Speaker 6: entire operation. He can't get his hands dirty with this
Speaker 6: kind of thing. He tries to get his cousin Scott
Speaker 6: to do it, but he declines because he's busy doing nothing.
Speaker 6: All this time, David is struggling trap behind the gate
Speaker 6: and Kelly just watching it all. But finally Steve succeeds
Speaker 6: in getting cousin Scott to do it.
Speaker 10: Steve's like, Scott, go help him get out and help him.
Speaker 10: I guess he had his cousin with him so he
Speaker 10: could make him get out if we was needed.
Speaker 8: Scott told me he really didn't want to do it,
Speaker 8: but he did anyway, and he helped David get out.
Speaker 4: At a boy.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, on the other side of the gate, David is exhausted.
Speaker 6: He looks up from his struggles to see a man
Speaker 6: he's never seen before approaching him. The man will not
Speaker 6: look him in the eye, but he does help David
Speaker 6: open the gate, and then finally David hops in the
Speaker 6: van drives through the gate and into his new life.
Speaker 6: The road he's on, believe it or not, is called
Speaker 6: freedom Drive.
Speaker 7: What does going down Freedom drive to freedom? Is that
Speaker 7: the hand of fate or is that just happenstance?
Speaker 6: So the plan is to form a three car caravan,
Speaker 6: Kelly in her pick up, Steve and Isedan, and David
Speaker 6: in the van With all the money. They'll drive to
Speaker 6: a nearby parking lot, where David will leave the van
Speaker 6: with Steve and his d list Henchman, and Kelly and
Speaker 6: David will drive to the airport. David can tell the
Speaker 6: armored van is loaded way beyond what it's meant to hold.
Speaker 6: It's steering heavy, the shocks are nearly maxed out. David
Speaker 6: wants to celebrate, and he could really use a cigarette,
Speaker 6: but he's so anxious that he can't even manage to
Speaker 6: light it. That's when he sees something.
Speaker 7: There's a Troy cop across from you. If he notices
Speaker 7: it's an ATM van out at this late night, he's
Speaker 7: gonna pull me over and ask questions.
Speaker 6: Every muscle in his body tenses up. David still has
Speaker 6: his company handgun with him, but he'd really rather not
Speaker 6: use it.
Speaker 7: If that guy had pulled me over, one of us
Speaker 7: would have died that night. I'm like, it ain't gonna
Speaker 7: be me.
Speaker 6: Luckily, the cop doesn't notice, and David continues driving, following
Speaker 6: Kelly to the rendezvous point. They drive past rows of
Speaker 6: industrial buildings and Kelly finally pulls into an open gate.
Speaker 6: David hops out of the van and leaves it behind,
Speaker 6: along with the two security tape showing his cash grab.
Speaker 6: He takes a master keyring with about oh one hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty five keys on it and hands it to
Speaker 6: one of Steve's goons.
Speaker 11: Do not lose these keys. These are the keys to
Speaker 11: this van. So he had this ring of keys. Instead
Speaker 11: of taking only the keys he needed, he took the
Speaker 11: whole ring of keys to all their vehicles.
Speaker 6: Mind you, David had just successfully stolen more money than
Speaker 6: all these people could earn at their jobs in a
Speaker 6: few centuries. But he can't do anything right. In Kelly's eyes.
Speaker 4: He took his sweet.
Speaker 6: Time in the vault, and now he just had to
Speaker 6: grab all the keys to all the vehicles as a
Speaker 6: little extra few to Loomis. And now it's Kelly's job
Speaker 6: to drive David to the airport and continue stringing him along.
Speaker 6: Oh right, maybe there was another job she was supposed
Speaker 6: to do.
Speaker 10: In the meantime, I'm driving Kant to the airport, which
Speaker 10: I didn't check to see if it was the international airport.
Speaker 6: I mean, why would you David Gant took the money
Speaker 6: and ran. His old life was officially over. He couldn't
Speaker 6: have it back even if he wanted to. Now he's
Speaker 6: on the road with his beautiful accomplice and future Mexican
Speaker 6: Combanta mate, headed for freedom courtesy of the airport in Columbia,
Speaker 6: South Carolina. He's feeling great.
Speaker 7: I'm about as amped up as I can get.
Speaker 6: Of course, David took a bag of cash with him
Speaker 6: to tide him over in Mexico. He doesn't know how much.
Speaker 6: It's a tiny fraction of what he stole, but it's
Speaker 6: enough to last him a while. And even this much money,
Speaker 6: a relatively small amount he can hide on his person,
Speaker 6: is more than he's ever had in his life. Kelly,
Speaker 6: normally pretty sedate, not dimension sedated, is also euphoric.
Speaker 10: I remember saying I'm a rich bitch now and kind
Speaker 10: of felt good.
Speaker 6: The airport in Columbia, South Carolina is only ninety minutes
Speaker 6: away and a sneaky choice because surely the authorities would
Speaker 6: be You've seen the airport in Charlotte, just a short
Speaker 6: drive from Loomis. Still, the job isn't done. David is
Speaker 6: the only current Loomis employee among the gang of thieves,
Speaker 6: and the sooner he disappears, the better. So onto a
Speaker 6: few things Kelly had been putting off until now.
Speaker 10: I was supposed to get him a money belt, and
Speaker 10: I didn't get the money belt. So he's like, well,
Speaker 10: how am I gonna hide it? So he's like, well,
Speaker 10: I'm gonna stick so many stacks in my boots because
Speaker 10: he had on cowboy boots. And I said, well, this is.
Speaker 7: Where Kelly Campbell has the greatest idea she's ever had
Speaker 7: in her life. We're in bo dunk, South Carolina. Sorry,
Speaker 7: South Carolina. It's true. She runs into a pigly wiggly
Speaker 7: or somehow a little store is late. We're in the
Speaker 7: middle of nowhere. The only place is that she runs
Speaker 7: in and gets some tape and a pair of couple
Speaker 7: of pairs of hose pantyhose. Of course, greatest idea ever come.
Speaker 7: We stuffed money into the hose, stringing around me free
Speaker 7: good times. Tape it money belt.
Speaker 6: The money belt problems are solved. But that's not the
Speaker 6: only place David will stash the money.
Speaker 7: I'm stuffing money in my boots. I think I put
Speaker 7: a good pair of eleven and a half w's will
Speaker 7: fit some feet and about twelve grand, and I've got
Speaker 7: six grand over here, six grand over here. I've got
Speaker 7: my Walt jam Pack money.
Speaker 6: So David is all set to make a break for it,
Speaker 6: and maybe it's something about driving farther and farther away
Speaker 6: from the money. But the glease starts to wear off.
Speaker 6: He starts to realize he left millions of dollars and
Speaker 6: two security tapes showing him stealing those millions of dollars
Speaker 6: from a variety of angles in a parking lot with
Speaker 6: some total strangers.
Speaker 8: One of the central questions I had for David was
Speaker 8: why did you steal this money and then give it
Speaker 8: all to people, including someone you didn't know? And his
Speaker 8: answer has stayed with me through time, which is he said,
Speaker 8: I was in the military. I was taught that if
Speaker 8: you give me a team of five people, I could
Speaker 8: go anywhere and do anything. Five good guys, I could
Speaker 8: go anywhere and do anything.
Speaker 6: Good guys being the operative word. Can he really trust
Speaker 6: these people? David asked Kelly to call and remind the
Speaker 6: guys to ditch the videotapes. Of course, they say, we
Speaker 6: definitely will. Anyway, they're continuing on to the airport, and
Speaker 6: then Kelly's phone rings again. It's Steve with a problem.
Speaker 6: They can't get into the van, you know, the van
Speaker 6: that has all the money in it.
Speaker 10: Apparently they dropped the key and they got mixed in
Speaker 10: with all the rest of them. So they've got this
Speaker 10: ring of keys like this, and they can't figure out
Speaker 10: which key it is to open the door. So they're pannikin.
Speaker 6: But Kelly and David can't turn around. They're already too
Speaker 6: far down the road and they need to get David
Speaker 6: on a plane. Meanwhile, Steven cousin Scott in a third henchman,
Speaker 6: Big Eric, another guy Steve recruited at the last and
Speaker 6: our operating light clockwork. If that clock didn't work, Steve
Speaker 6: had promised each of these clowns a cool one hundred
Speaker 6: grand for their services. They clearly had no idea what
Speaker 6: they were in for.
Speaker 9: At this point.
Speaker 8: The heights that already happened, and even if they didn't
Speaker 8: get away with it, they were all going to be
Speaker 8: in trouble. Scott didn't know which key to use, so
Speaker 8: there were a lot of them, and they were like, okay,
Speaker 8: which one of these fifths.
Speaker 6: It's a dark parking lot, and there are just so
Speaker 6: many damn keys on this keychain it seems like it's
Speaker 6: going to be impossible to find the right key. So
Speaker 6: someone gets the bright idea to break into the van,
Speaker 6: the armored van. They try smashing the windows with the rock,
Speaker 6: but it's bulletproof, it doesn't even chip. They then tried
Speaker 6: jimmy in the back door opened nothing, budgets. It's almost
Speaker 6: like this armored van was built to keep out criminals.
Speaker 6: After being utterly defeated by the armored van, Steve and
Speaker 6: the crew finally realized they couldn't get this thing open
Speaker 6: unless they had a few days of free time and
Speaker 6: a welding kid. So sufficiently humbled, they start trying the
Speaker 6: keys one by one in the dark, while waiting for
Speaker 6: the cops to roll up at any moment, and finally,
Speaker 6: thank god, they find the right key. They opened the van,
Speaker 6: and for the first time they are treated to a
Speaker 6: full view of what David had been busy with during
Speaker 6: those hours in the vault. The van was full floor
Speaker 6: to ceiling with shrink wrapped stacks of cold, hard cash.
Speaker 6: David had literally kept going until he ran out of room.
Speaker 6: He couldn't fit an extra five bucks for gas money
Speaker 6: into the back of that van. Steve ordered cousin Scott
Speaker 6: into the van to start unloading. The plan was simple enough,
Speaker 6: they just had to move the money from one van
Speaker 6: into another van. Was so much money, they started dumping
Speaker 6: cash into some plastic blue barrels they grabbed from the
Speaker 6: loading dog and then shuffled those barrels to the rental van.
Speaker 6: They were finally working into a good rhythm when they
Speaker 6: heard something.
Speaker 8: Scott told me that he's tharft to hear a siren,
Speaker 8: and he says, he puts his hands up and he
Speaker 8: walks towards the back of the truck which he'd been loading,
Speaker 8: and he thinks it's all over for them, And amazingly,
Speaker 8: it's an ambulance on Route eighty five, driving away from them.
Speaker 6: Scott shakes it off and then gets back to work. Meanwhile,
Speaker 6: on I eighty five, David and Kelly continue to drive
Speaker 6: through the night to the airport in Columbia, David's first
Speaker 6: step towards freedom. Where exactly in Mexico David's flying to
Speaker 6: that just hasn't come up. He figured his accomplices must
Speaker 6: have boughtom a ticket to someplace nice, right, you know,
Speaker 6: for all the trouble he went to. It's about nine
Speaker 6: thirty pm. When they finally pull into the parking lot.
Speaker 6: David looks towards the terminal.
Speaker 7: It's strangely dark. I'm like, oh, crap.
Speaker 8: They drove to the airport in Columbia, South Carolina, and
Speaker 8: when they got there it was closed. They hadn't even
Speaker 8: bought a ticket. They still seventeen million dollars and had
Speaker 8: not bought a ticket to help him escape.
Speaker 9: That absolutely blew me away.
Speaker 10: So we get to the airport and the airport's closed.
Speaker 10: So I'm like, crap, what do we do now. I'm
Speaker 10: not driving him to another airport. I don't want him
Speaker 10: flying out as Charlotte.
Speaker 6: So, setting aside for a second the fact that Kelly
Speaker 6: never even checked whether or not the airport would be open,
Speaker 6: she really won't drive the man who just threw his
Speaker 6: life away for her to another airport. The closest one
Speaker 6: that's opened is the big international airport in Atlanta. It'll
Speaker 6: probably have dozens of flights to Mexico or anywhere else
Speaker 6: in the world. It's two hundred and forty miles away,
Speaker 6: a little more than three hours on quiet nighttime roads.
Speaker 10: I'm not driving to Atlanta. Are you crazy? I put
Speaker 10: him on a bus and he can drive to Atlanta
Speaker 10: and get him a plane. But I'm not driving to Atlanta.
Speaker 7: I'm disappointed, but I'm really too tired for it to
Speaker 7: sink in, and the adrenaline is starting to wear off.
Speaker 7: I'm getting, you know anyway. I know she needs to
Speaker 7: get back David.
Speaker 6: Jesus.
Speaker 10: I decide, well, I'll take you to a bus station.
Speaker 7: She takes me to the Greyhound office.
Speaker 10: In my mind, you know David was going to be fine.
Speaker 10: He had money with him, so I didn't have any
Speaker 10: worries that he would not reach his destination.
Speaker 7: Now I go, okay, I need to get to Atlanta
Speaker 7: Columbia Greyhound. I sleep all the way to.
Speaker 6: Atlanta, and when he finally gets to the airport in Atlanta.
Speaker 7: There's nothing. No direct flights from Atlanta to either side
Speaker 7: of Mexico.
Speaker 6: Like crap.
Speaker 7: So I find one New Orleans that's closer. We're getting there.
Speaker 7: I love New Orleans anyway.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, Kelly is just fucking driving back home, and she
Speaker 6: has one last job to do on the way, a
Speaker 6: last favor to David. He had left his Loomis Fargo
Speaker 6: work shirt and service Revolver in her car. Now it
Speaker 6: was Kelly's job to hide the evidence.
Speaker 10: So I'm driving back across the bridge and Belmont. It's
Speaker 10: a place they call the hot hole. And as I'm
Speaker 10: driving across the bridge, I just take the shirt in
Speaker 10: the gun and chunk it out the window hope it
Speaker 10: lands in the water.
Speaker 6: While Kelly was meticulously hiding the last shreds of evidence,
Speaker 6: the three Stooges, Steve, Cousin Scott and Big Eric were
Speaker 6: wrapping up the finer details on their end. They finally
Speaker 6: succeeded in transferring the money from the ATM van to
Speaker 6: their rental Well not quiet. The rental van was full
Speaker 6: and there were still huge stacks of cash left the
Speaker 6: ATM van, which was a problem since they planned to
Speaker 6: abandon it.
Speaker 8: David stole seventeen million dollars, but they actually only made
Speaker 8: away with over fourteen million dollars because they had to
Speaker 8: leave about three million dollars in the van because it
Speaker 8: wouldn't fit into their other van in a way that
Speaker 8: they felt was safe to take it.
Speaker 6: Steve made the call to just give up. He sent
Speaker 6: Big Eric to drive off in the loaded rental van
Speaker 6: and he and cousin Scott went to ditch the Loomis
Speaker 6: vehicle and that's how an atm van three million dollars
Speaker 6: in cash and two VHS tapes showing David Gant sweating
Speaker 6: his balls off ended up in the woods, just a
Speaker 6: few miles from the scene of the crime. You heard
Speaker 6: that right. Steve and his hair brain highwayman never grabbed
Speaker 6: those extremely incriminating tapes that David was worried about. They
Speaker 6: had more important things to do, like count the money.
Speaker 6: Steven cousin Scott met up with Big Eric and the
Speaker 6: rental van at a gas station, walking right past an
Speaker 6: Idland cop car when they retrieved Steve Sedan. Then they
Speaker 6: drove back to Steve's trailer, the site of the notorious
Speaker 6: Uno game that launched this whole operation. Steve's wife, Michelle
Speaker 6: was waiting for them with a bunch of rubber bands
Speaker 6: and a calculator. Michelle is a petite brunette and a
Speaker 6: certified smoke show with a bubbly personality.
Speaker 10: The first time he introduced me to Michelle, he introduced
Speaker 10: her as his associate's wife. That's an associate of mine's wife,
Speaker 10: and he's out of town and I'm looking after while
Speaker 10: he's out of town. Her husband at the time was
Speaker 10: in the military, and apparently her and Steve had something
Speaker 10: going on.
Speaker 6: But that's all in the past, and now Steve and
Speaker 6: Michelle seemed to be in lockstep chasing this big money dream.
Speaker 6: Kind of sweet to see a couple so in tune
Speaker 6: with each other and working towards the same goal.
Speaker 8: There were four of them there. There were Steve, Michelle,
Speaker 8: Eric and Scott. Scott passed the money to Eric, who
Speaker 8: passed it to Steve, who announced how much there was.
Speaker 9: And told Michelle, who edited up on a calculator.
Speaker 8: From what I heard from people who were there, Michelle
Speaker 8: and the rest of them were all really excited.
Speaker 6: Michelle just kept yelling, look at all this money, Look
Speaker 6: at all this money, but is the total kept climbing
Speaker 6: into the hundreds of thousands and then into the millions.
Speaker 6: Something dawned on cousin Scott. They were all in deep shit.
Speaker 8: Scott and probably Eric too, were extremely nervous. Scott was like,
Speaker 8: we are going to get caught. We're going to get caught,
Speaker 8: and Steve, according to Eric and Scott, says We're not
Speaker 8: gonna caught if everyone does what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, everyone just follow protocol. The next step in
Speaker 6: the master plan stuffing a mattress from Steve's kids bunk
Speaker 6: bed full of cash, the one from the top bunk.
Speaker 6: Of course, they stuff it completely full the stacks of
Speaker 6: twenty dollars bills.
Speaker 9: That's where they were gonna hide it.
Speaker 8: And then Scott points out, guys, if you put that
Speaker 8: on your bunk bed, it's gonna your kid underneath it,
Speaker 8: you know. So I think they changed the planet at
Speaker 8: that point.
Speaker 6: Kelly shows up to this chaotic scene after selflessly not
Speaker 6: driving David to the airport. Cousin Scott in Big Eric
Speaker 6: had already left. It was just Steve, Michelle and some
Speaker 6: blue barrels full of cash with a bit of dog
Speaker 6: food sprinkled over the top for cover. No one there
Speaker 6: had given a single thought to the fact that a
Speaker 6: third of that heavy, stinky, kibble flavored cash belonged to
Speaker 6: David Gant. It's early in the morning on October fifth,
Speaker 6: the day after the heist, and David Gant is in
Speaker 6: a hotel room in New Orleans. He's exhausted and still
Speaker 6: hasn't even had time to take a shower. After all
Speaker 6: his work in the vault, but first he can't help
Speaker 6: but flip on the TV, wondering if he might be
Speaker 6: on the news. Luckily there's nothing yet. Hopefully the news
Speaker 6: won't break ahead of his flight, which leaves in just
Speaker 6: a few hours. He has just enough time for one
Speaker 6: final mission.
Speaker 7: I sue, there's a little pharmacy down the street from me,
Speaker 7: time store whatever. So I go out. I go down
Speaker 7: and I go in, and I think I need to
Speaker 7: change my appearance.
Speaker 6: He buys his hair dye, some non prescription eyeglasses, and
Speaker 6: novelty contact lenses to change his eye color.
Speaker 7: I go back to the hotel room and I've never
Speaker 7: died my hair before. I don't know what I'm doing.
Speaker 7: I'm winging it for real. This is impulsive to level ten.
Speaker 7: We're just going with it. So I dye my hair brown. Well,
Speaker 7: I ignore my eyebrows, So I've got this chestnut chestnut hair
Speaker 7: and blonde eyebrows. I'm thinking, well, just dye my hair,
Speaker 7: and the movies that make it look so easy. No,
Speaker 7: it's not. I die everywhere it was going to close.
Speaker 7: There's a mess.
Speaker 6: The contact lenses didn't go much better.
Speaker 7: Look like idiot, But this is great. And I put
Speaker 7: the contact lens in and it didn't change my eyes
Speaker 7: in the way I thought that we went from. I
Speaker 7: thought I was going from blue to green, and I
Speaker 7: ended up with some it was almost a purple. I'm like,
Speaker 7: oh God, that's ridiculous. So I took them out. I
Speaker 7: threw them away because they were did just it didn't work.
Speaker 6: Despite this felt mission, David feels like he's starting to
Speaker 6: get the hang of this whole outlaw thing.
Speaker 7: Your actions have to fitture cover story. A round trip
Speaker 7: ticket draws no attention.
Speaker 6: David's cover story is that he's taking a two week
Speaker 6: vacation in can Coon.
Speaker 7: It was the first flight and it was the closest
Speaker 7: I would be in can Coon quickest.
Speaker 6: He makes it to the airport and is waiting for
Speaker 6: his flight, counting the minutes until take off.
Speaker 9: A woman approaches him and says, I think I know you.
Speaker 6: His first thought is that his cover is blown. His
Speaker 6: ugly mug must be on every TV in the airport.
Speaker 6: The woman says, hey, are you Boris Becker an honest mistake.
Speaker 6: Boris Becker the German tennis phenom, also a tall, skinny redhead.
Speaker 6: Maybe David's already looking rich and successful, but he plays it.
Speaker 9: Cool and he's like, oh no, no, I'm Mike. I work
Speaker 9: in printing or something.
Speaker 6: Genius g e n iOS. Mike is the name on
Speaker 6: David's fake ID, the one piece of planning Stephen Kelly
Speaker 6: successfully pull off for him. That ID is his ticket
Speaker 6: to freedom. Maybe Steve's not so bad after all. All
Speaker 6: David has to do now is just get on this
Speaker 6: flight and everything should be just fine.
Speaker 7: She says, you know, hey, this has created a crap story. Okay.
Speaker 5: There were several local informants calling police, saying.
Speaker 9: I've known this guy his whole life. There's no way
Speaker 9: he can afford this house.
Speaker 7: Something's up.
Speaker 10: When you do really bad things like murdering somebody, it's
Speaker 10: either for money or to keep a secret.
Speaker 6: That's next time on Crime List. He'll Billy hust.
Speaker 5: Okay, I now imagine we're all deeply invested in the
Speaker 5: extremely colorful life of David Gant.
Speaker 7: How are you feeling, Rory?
Speaker 3: I cannot stress enough how aggravating it is when everybody
Speaker 3: on the team isn't operating at their highest level, and
Speaker 3: I feel like David Gant is sweating blood for this team,
Speaker 3: and I cannot handle Kelly.
Speaker 4: I just can't handle Kelly. I can't handle it.
Speaker 5: I know, I mean, just an incredible series of events
Speaker 5: and moments in a true story. And maybe, yeah, the
Speaker 5: rudest thing someone's ever done after a crime is just
Speaker 5: decide not to drive their accomplice to the airport so
Speaker 5: he can make a getaway.
Speaker 3: But not even just that literally didn't look into the airport,
Speaker 3: didn't get the flight, didn't get the money belt, didn't
Speaker 3: participate in any way.
Speaker 4: You almost want to.
Speaker 3: Be like, are you just so high you don't even
Speaker 3: know we have committed a federal crime?
Speaker 4: Are you aware of what is at stake here? It
Speaker 4: speaks to how.
Speaker 3: In love delusionally David is with Kelly, that he thinks
Speaker 3: that Kelly's going to step it up, like David's not a.
Speaker 4: Good read of character.
Speaker 3: The fact that David even got in bed in any
Speaker 3: way with Steve Chambers and his crew, and Kelly speaks
Speaker 3: volumes of David and his and his.
Speaker 4: His decision making when it comes to relationships.
Speaker 3: But it's like Kelly, everyone's doings, even Steve is doing
Speaker 3: doing something. Kelly her tone when she was like, I'm
Speaker 3: not going to drive him to Atlanta, I'm like, this
Speaker 3: isn't your buddy going back to college.
Speaker 4: This is this poor man. You guys are screwed. You're screwed.
Speaker 5: Also like terrible for herself because it just increases the
Speaker 5: chances that David gets caught, and if David gets caught,
Speaker 5: she's screwed too.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly exactly, but she doesn't seem to even understand it.
Speaker 3: She almost doesn't even understand what's at stake, almost as
Speaker 3: though this is just a weekend kind of fun thing,
Speaker 3: like yeah, I guess we'll go steal some money.
Speaker 4: I don't know they wanted to do it just so blase.
Speaker 3: I almost would be a better person in my life
Speaker 3: if I could be that blase about everything. I get
Speaker 3: a little too high strung about anything that has no consequence.
Speaker 4: Kelly doesn't even care.
Speaker 6: That this is like.
Speaker 4: That, this is gonna be decades behind bars. I also
Speaker 4: feel like.
Speaker 5: There's some pretty useful information in this episode, like the
Speaker 5: exact amount of money you can stuff into your pantyhose
Speaker 5: and boots. Have you learned anything that will help you
Speaker 5: in your future heights?
Speaker 3: I mean, one, it's gonna be get the money belt.
Speaker 3: But I learned that if someone says I want to
Speaker 3: be on the team, and I smoke a lot of.
Speaker 4: Pot, You're already out. You're out. And I have nothing
Speaker 4: against pot, but you're just not gonna be able to
Speaker 4: make it for this gig.
Speaker 3: If they don't let people smoke pot to take orders
Speaker 3: at McDonald's, you can't let someone smoke pot to help
Speaker 3: you steal a massive amount of money.
Speaker 5: So you're saying that marijuana is not a performance enhancing drug.
Speaker 3: And I would say it's only ever really worked for
Speaker 3: Michael Phelps. For the rest of us, it's we're not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to pull it off. It's a it's
Speaker 3: I would get a money belt. I would definitely have
Speaker 3: already looked up the airport. I love that they thought Columbia,
Speaker 3: South Carolina was an international airport.
Speaker 4: Slash would be open at three am.
Speaker 3: There's no airport open at three am.
Speaker 5: Maybe jfk Abe, maybe jfk Well. In this episode David's escape,
Speaker 5: it continues, and I believe episode three, we will hear
Speaker 5: a little bit more about David State. I give that
Speaker 5: episode five bong hits out of five.
Speaker 4: I think same.
Speaker 5: We'll see you next week for episode three.
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