Speaker 1: Somewhere tonight, a Wells Fargo guard and acts Wells Fargo
Speaker 1: guard is on the run with seven million dollars in cash.
Speaker 1: On the night of the robbery, I had chased a
Speaker 1: burglar from Flatwish Avenue all around Charter rope Terrace and
Speaker 1: was frustrated that he got away with like a bike
Speaker 1: and maybe a VCR. It's September twelve. Jack Casey is
Speaker 1: two years into a thirty year career with the West
Speaker 1: Harford Police Department in central Connecticut. On this night, he's
Speaker 1: looking for a robbery suspect and a local housing project
Speaker 1: when he takes a call for a robbery in progress.
Speaker 1: It comes in and then we gave the code for
Speaker 1: a robbery, and then they gave the address, and I said, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm right down the street. I'll be there within seconds.
Speaker 1: So of course I jumped back in my cruiser. I
Speaker 1: drive up the street. I'm probably here in half an it,
Speaker 1: so I'm thinking, okay, I got a good shot of
Speaker 1: getting these guys. Casey rolls up to what is an
Speaker 1: unmarked Wells Fargo depot near the Hartford town line. To
Speaker 1: an outsider, the one story building appears empty, no signs,
Speaker 1: nobody around. When he arrives. There's no clear or obvious
Speaker 1: indication of trouble either. The steel overhead garage doors are closed.
Speaker 1: Everything appears to be quiet, But Casey is the first
Speaker 1: officer on the scene and knows better than to go rogue. Plus,
Speaker 1: he understands, if you've got the guts to rob a
Speaker 1: secured warehouse full of money, chances are your arm to
Speaker 1: the teeth. Telling them on the radio, hey have then
Speaker 1: come out, they said, we're trying. By then a couple
Speaker 1: of other officers started showing ups, and now we're setting
Speaker 1: up a perimeter because as far as we're concerned as
Speaker 1: the active robbery, and there's a lot of cash on
Speaker 1: the line. Inside that nondescript window list building, there is
Speaker 1: over thirty million dollars on any given day, a good
Speaker 1: portion of which is brand new money banded bills consecutive
Speaker 1: numbers wrapped in plastic fresh from the Federal reserve, ready
Speaker 1: to be distributed into the population. Dispatch tells Casey to
Speaker 1: make his way towards the building's rear entrance, so he does.
Speaker 1: Then a door swings open to reveal a visibly shaken guard.
Speaker 1: You can tell he had some marks on his face
Speaker 1: from the tape or whatever. I think he had a
Speaker 1: handcuffed angling off of them, and he was really really
Speaker 1: upset and he saw I've been robbed. We've been robbed.
Speaker 1: Turns out there were two security guards held hostage during
Speaker 1: the robbery. One appears to have a swollen upper lip.
Speaker 1: The other still has some tape stuck to his hair
Speaker 1: from being tied up. Their clothes are ruffled, and then
Speaker 1: they start telling me a story. The guard they worked
Speaker 1: with put a gun to their head, retinum, hand coffed on,
Speaker 1: tied them off, put him on the floor, loaded up
Speaker 1: a bunch of money, and left. So I said how
Speaker 1: much let He said five million? And I'm like, what now,
Speaker 1: I'm aggravated because some guy just stole a bike. For
Speaker 1: two hours, I can't find a guy, and at the
Speaker 1: same time, this guy is stealing five million dollars. That
Speaker 1: was the initial thought in a frenzy to report every
Speaker 1: detail of the crime scene during those crucial first hours.
Speaker 1: Early police reports listed the monetary loss at five million dollars,
Speaker 1: but as it turns out, the amount of money was
Speaker 1: far greater. The thief actually got away with a total
Speaker 1: of seven million, seventeen thousand one hundred and fifty one dollars,
Speaker 1: an amount equivalent today to nearly nineteen point six million.
Speaker 1: At the time, it was one of the largest cash
Speaker 1: heists in US history. But stealing seven million dollars, well,
Speaker 1: that was just the beginning. My name is em William Phelps.
Speaker 1: I'm an investigative journalist and author of more than forty
Speaker 1: true crime books. What you were about to hear is
Speaker 1: the true story of a heist, one that funded an
Speaker 1: international independence movement and sparked an investigation spanning nearly four decades.
Speaker 1: This is White Eagle. It was a Monday night in
Speaker 1: mid September. Two Wells Fargo guards, twenty five year old
Speaker 1: Victor Harraina and twenty one year old Tim Girard. We're
Speaker 1: getting ready to call it a day. They were en
Speaker 1: route from Bridgeport, Connecticut to the smugglers in a bar
Speaker 1: and restaurant in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, the last stop of
Speaker 1: their long day before heading back to the Wells Fargo
Speaker 1: depot in West Harford, Connecticut and clocking out. It's a
Speaker 1: repetitive job, with grueling hours on the road, driving to
Speaker 1: various banks and businesses around Connecticut and Massachusetts to pick
Speaker 1: up money and loaded into an armored vehicle, one stop
Speaker 1: after another, pick up load, pick up load, and at
Speaker 1: the end of the day the reverse unload count unload count.
Speaker 1: Victor Harraine had been at it for a little over
Speaker 1: a year, Tim Gerard just six months. Guards made just
Speaker 1: four dollars and seventy five cents an hour, which was
Speaker 1: about a dollar higher than minimum wage at the time,
Speaker 1: but a fraction of the millions of dollars in cash
Speaker 1: they collected and handled each day. For whatever reason, they
Speaker 1: were shorthanded, probably because it was a lousy job and
Speaker 1: Ed mahoney has been a reporter for thirty years, many
Speaker 1: of which have been spent at the Hartford Current. He
Speaker 1: was part of the team that want to pull a
Speaker 1: Surprise in the late nineties for coverage of what was
Speaker 1: at the time a rare occurrence, a shooting rampage in
Speaker 1: which a Connecticut State Lottery employee killed four senior supervisors
Speaker 1: and then himself. Mahoney's covered politics, local news and is
Speaker 1: no stranger to complex investigative crime stories. He explains that
Speaker 1: the two guards that night were in a rush to
Speaker 1: get back to the depot Monday night football was on TV,
Speaker 1: and their boss twenty five year old Jim McKean wanted
Speaker 1: to go home and watch the San Diego Chargers play
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, but being understaffed, everything was already
Speaker 1: behind schedule, and there was a half a ton of
Speaker 1: cash that still needed to be counted and stacked. According
Speaker 1: to police reports, when the guards got back to the
Speaker 1: depot around nine o'clock, Victor offered to unload the money
Speaker 1: by himself. His partner Tim refused because he'd gotten into
Speaker 1: trouble in the past for leaving early. He decided to
Speaker 1: stick her out, so Victor thought it would be he
Speaker 1: and one of a person in the view pub. It
Speaker 1: turns out it's Heat and two others. Boss Jim McKean
Speaker 1: was waiting inside the dispatch office, sitting at a desk
Speaker 1: to the left of the vault where the money collected
Speaker 1: by the guards was to be kept. He had one
Speaker 1: half of the vaults combination, Victor had the other. After
Speaker 1: Victor helped open the vault, he went back to the
Speaker 1: truck and began unloading the cash they'd collected that day.
Speaker 1: Bags of coins which stayed unload later, and twenty six
Speaker 1: bags of currency, which was brought into the vault on
Speaker 1: a wheeled cart. There are two ways to enter the
Speaker 1: building's dispatch office. The main way is via a keypad
Speaker 1: entrance through double steel doors and an observation port. The
Speaker 1: other is through a bolted door that opens into the
Speaker 1: garage area, though it can only be unlocked from inside
Speaker 1: the dispatch office. Basically, the only way to gain access
Speaker 1: to all that cash was to already be inside. They're
Speaker 1: sitting there and they're counting these millions of dollars and
Speaker 1: stacking it up and making notes and writing up paperwork
Speaker 1: and running it through adding machines and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and Victor kind of manivorous himself behind this boss is
Speaker 1: sitting at the table and slips out the boss's pistol
Speaker 1: province holster and says, okay, guys, I'm not fooling around.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot you if you don't do what i'm
Speaker 1: gonna tell you to do. He slapped the other card
Speaker 1: and said, hey, this is no joke. And they hear
Speaker 1: him loading a shotgun and a handgun. So you know
Speaker 1: what you're thinking in your mind, you're gonna be executed.
Speaker 1: Boss Jim McKean would later tell police that he thought
Speaker 1: he was going to be killed. Quote all I said
Speaker 1: was Vic, and he said, Jim, I've got nothing against you.
Speaker 1: I'm just tired of working for other people. It looks
Speaker 1: like he had everything with him. He needed to restrain
Speaker 1: one person, but there were two people, so for example,
Speaker 1: had one pair of handcuffs, so he had to, you know,
Speaker 1: use the handcuffs and conversation with some tape and some
Speaker 1: rope and stuff like that. Both men were gagged in
Speaker 1: order to lie on the floor. Jim McKeon's hands were
Speaker 1: handcuffed behind his back. Tim Gerard was hog tied with
Speaker 1: white adhesive tape and nylon twine. Police Chief Francis Reynolds
Speaker 1: spoke to reporters the following day. Coach were then placed
Speaker 1: over their heads, at which time Greena advised the men
Speaker 1: that he was going to give them a shot that
Speaker 1: would put him to sleep. It looks like he injected
Speaker 1: them both, but neither one of them got knocked out,
Speaker 1: So maybe it's because he divided at those for one
Speaker 1: person among two people. That solution doctors would later analyze
Speaker 1: through tests was allegedly a mixture of aspirin and water.
Speaker 1: The two guards later told police Victor appeared highly agitated.
Speaker 1: He turned on the intercom to hear if anyone was outside.
Speaker 1: Tim Gerard said, when he started to wriggle around, Victor
Speaker 1: hit him a few times and warned both men that
Speaker 1: they had accidentally choked themselves if they tried to break
Speaker 1: free their incapacity of their tape. They're tied up to
Speaker 1: their light on the ground, and they just hear him
Speaker 1: going back and forth, and they hear zippers like somebody's
Speaker 1: filling up great big, huge gym bags or sleeping bags
Speaker 1: with cash. It's actually hard to believe someone pulled it off.
Speaker 1: Victor Haraina emptied the steel vault of all currency with
Speaker 1: the exception of one and two dollar bills. He then
Speaker 1: loaded approximately between nine hundred and twelve pounds of cash
Speaker 1: into a buic less saber parked in one of the
Speaker 1: deposed loading bays, conveniently out of public view. All this
Speaker 1: within just ninety minutes. What he was doing was he
Speaker 1: was loading up the cash into bags and stuffing it
Speaker 1: into the car, and it got to the point where
Speaker 1: there is so much I mean, there was barely off
Speaker 1: room for him to get into the car. There was
Speaker 1: so much cash in it. So much. In fact, Victor
Speaker 1: not only had to take out the car, spare tire
Speaker 1: and bumper jack to make room for the money. He
Speaker 1: also left behind a few currency bags worth hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars. Victor then got into the buick, beat
Speaker 1: the horn twice, and drove out of the Deepot parking lot.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's a national alert again Jack Casey, that
Speaker 1: goes out all across the country. So when we enter it,
Speaker 1: we say, you know, arm robbery, West Hartford seven million,
Speaker 1: that's going to catch the eye of most police departments,
Speaker 1: especially along the corridor. By that point, Victor Harraina already
Speaker 1: had a solid lead ahead of law enforcement, we thought
Speaker 1: that night because they're heat accustomed tight up. He probably
Speaker 1: figured he's got a lot of time because he's thinking,
Speaker 1: all these guys are probably gonna get found in the morning.
Speaker 1: So the fact that they were able to wiggle free.
Speaker 1: Did the alarm have helped yet there? But we figured, okay,
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have as much time as he thought.
Speaker 1: He's not that far ahead of us now. But as
Speaker 1: it turns out, he was far enough ahead to get away.
Speaker 1: The search for Victor Harraina began almost immediately after police
Speaker 1: responded to the scene. Today, they might have found him
Speaker 1: within hours, but in it was far easier to vanish.
Speaker 1: GPS tracking wasn't available to civilians yet three nine eleven,
Speaker 1: people traveled more freely and could pay with cash, and
Speaker 1: it would be another twenty years before the majority of
Speaker 1: the population carried cell phones in their pockets. Was also
Speaker 1: a chaotic time in the nation. Less than two weeks
Speaker 1: before the robbery, the Soviet Union shot down a Korean
Speaker 1: Airlines flight, killing everyone on board, including a U. S congressman.
Speaker 1: At the time, there was concern about what it all
Speaker 1: meant for the US and whether the Cold War would
Speaker 1: heat back up. President Reagan called the attack barbaric. Our
Speaker 1: first emotions are angered, disbelief and profound sadness. While events
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and elsewhere have left few illusions about the
Speaker 1: willingness of the Soviet Union to advance its interest through
Speaker 1: violence and intimidation, all of us had hoped that certain
Speaker 1: irreducible standards of civilized behavior nonetheless obtained. In West Harford,
Speaker 1: police were busy and rattled. The town had recently been
Speaker 1: terrorized by a serial arsonist who had been sending fires
Speaker 1: to local synagogues. We're having a series so arson's in
Speaker 1: town that appeared to be targeting the Jewish neighborhood. They
Speaker 1: were high profile cases. We were getting a lot of
Speaker 1: heat with them, and it was a lot of hours
Speaker 1: beginning put into it. We were flat out. Steve Luby
Speaker 1: was a detective with the West Tarford Police Department. He
Speaker 1: worked in the Special Investigations Division, a small team mainly
Speaker 1: focused on narcotics cases, internal affairs, and arson's the ladder
Speaker 1: of which wholly occupied Luby's time that summer. He says,
Speaker 1: up until then, West Tarford was a fairly quiet place
Speaker 1: to work. It was primarily a sleepier suburb of Harvard.
Speaker 1: A lot of people would work in Harford that lived there,
Speaker 1: and they would commute back and forth. We had some
Speaker 1: murders periodically, not not nothing like Hartford, you know, the
Speaker 1: arson cases that became like national news overnight. Within one week,
Speaker 1: the arsonists torched two local synagogues, and less than a
Speaker 1: month later, a state representatives house was set on fire
Speaker 1: as she and her family slept. Thankfully, no one was hurt,
Speaker 1: and the cops eventually caught the guy who did it,
Speaker 1: a seventeen year old kid who was a member of
Speaker 1: the first synagogue. Targeted everyone I've spoken to from the area,
Speaker 1: has said it was a terrifying few months with lots
Speaker 1: of national attention. By the time the Wells Fargo Heights happened,
Speaker 1: law enforcement was spent. I was home in bed, trying
Speaker 1: to catch up on some sleep. I got a call
Speaker 1: from dispatch indicating that they wanted me to return to duty.
Speaker 1: When the phone rang, I figured it was another arson
Speaker 1: fire or something that I was going in for. And
Speaker 1: who recalled me? I asked him, you know, what's what's
Speaker 1: this all about? They said, getting her right away. We
Speaker 1: just had a robbery at Wells Fargo and it's a
Speaker 1: huge robbery. You want to address these things earlier she can,
Speaker 1: because you're losing information the longer you go. So we
Speaker 1: have really a sitdown. Was more or less you do this,
Speaker 1: you go here, you do that. Police had a slight advantage.
Speaker 1: Unlike most cases, they already had a suspect, Victor Manuel
Speaker 1: Harrena a five ft six sixty pounds, brown hair, green eyes.
Speaker 1: They had a description of the car he drove away in,
Speaker 1: a green three four door Buick Le Saber, and he
Speaker 1: knew where he lived Warner Street, downtown Hartford, just a
Speaker 1: fifteen minute drive from the Wells Fargo depot, plus they
Speaker 1: learned one critical piece of information about his personal life.
Speaker 1: Victor Harrana was due to get married four days At
Speaker 1: approximately twelve fifteen am, nearly an hour after the Wells
Speaker 1: Fargo guards freed themselves and called for help, law enforcement
Speaker 1: approached the multi family building in Hartford where Victor Harraina
Speaker 1: shared an apartment with his fiance. An armed robber in
Speaker 1: possession of seven million dollars in cash was on the lamp.
Speaker 1: There was no risk too small to take. The police
Speaker 1: were armed in the perimeter of the building secured. Jack
Speaker 1: Casey was among those present. We're outside, saying, hey, we
Speaker 1: could steel and get a search warrant if you want
Speaker 1: to consent to a search. Save everybody, about of time.
Speaker 1: If he's not in there, it'll be quick. We'll go in,
Speaker 1: we'll get out. Victor's fiancee, Anna Soto, poked her head
Speaker 1: out from the third floor porch. She seemed upset, but
Speaker 1: also cooperative. According to police reports, She allowed the officers
Speaker 1: inside to search the home. I remember the shotgun and
Speaker 1: I was searching the room, and I think it was
Speaker 1: a dover started coming and growling, and I leveled the
Speaker 1: gun and I said, hey, you have to get the
Speaker 1: get the dog, and she said okay, okay, which turns
Speaker 1: out later on it's like she felt threatened by the
Speaker 1: shotgun or whatever. But in any event, at that time
Speaker 1: I opened the closet and nurse big, huge duffle bag.
Speaker 1: So in my mind I'm thinking, wow, it's here. Here's
Speaker 1: the money. So now I'm thinking, okay, he's in here somewhere.
Speaker 1: So now we're looking for him, looking for him because
Speaker 1: we're thinking that's the money. Eventually, after we clear the house,
Speaker 1: we unzipped the baggage shoes, it shoots. The search for
Speaker 1: Victor proof fruitless. Neither he nor the money was inside
Speaker 1: that apartment, though the police did seize a number of
Speaker 1: Victor's belongings, including his bank book and telephone records, an
Speaker 1: address book with directions written inside, a letter written in Spanish,
Speaker 1: a road map, a postcard, and most importantly, his passport,
Speaker 1: leaving Victor with even less of a chance a flee
Speaker 1: in the country. His fiance, Anna, said she didn't know
Speaker 1: where he was. She agreed to go to the station,
Speaker 1: even riding in the passenger seat of one of the
Speaker 1: patrol cars, to voluntarily give a statement. Regarding Victor and
Speaker 1: what she knew. Back at the station, Detective Steve Luby
Speaker 1: was waiting for her arrival. I got a sign to
Speaker 1: see if I could talk her into a written statement
Speaker 1: and find out what she knew. Luby was tasked to
Speaker 1: follow up on their two biggest leads at the time,
Speaker 1: what if anything Victor herain A's fiance might know about
Speaker 1: the robbery, and how police could find a getaway car
Speaker 1: with Victor and the seven million in cash tucked away inside.
Speaker 1: She was a personal kid. She was scared before he
Speaker 1: even got into the background stuff. Guy remember her saying
Speaker 1: she was freezing cold and the office was cold at
Speaker 1: the time, But oftentimes when people are nervous, they kind
Speaker 1: of come across really cold too. So I tried to
Speaker 1: manipulate the heat in the office by putting the paper
Speaker 1: clip in the thermostat and driving it up and got
Speaker 1: her got herself. I wanted to get her comfortable with
Speaker 1: me and see if I could get her relax a little.
Speaker 1: Before he even started his statement, Luby took his time,
Speaker 1: hoping to of course, went over her trust. I don't
Speaker 1: go right to paper. I sit down trying to have
Speaker 1: a conversation because she was frightened, and when you look
Speaker 1: at someone being frightened, you don't often know are they
Speaker 1: frightened because they're part of this? Are they just frightened
Speaker 1: to be now in the police station addressing a crime
Speaker 1: that either they were a victim of or a witness
Speaker 1: to try to get that report on and and I,
Speaker 1: I think I was pretty good at getting her comfortable.
Speaker 1: She seemed comfortable, and she calmed down. She greeted a statement.
Speaker 1: Luby knew how how important Anna could be within the
Speaker 1: scope of the investigation. He needed to know if she
Speaker 1: was telling the truth, and says after a while he
Speaker 1: got the impression that she wasn't being up front, so
Speaker 1: he took a more aggressive approach. And I told her
Speaker 1: he's got he's got guns. He's out there now. Every
Speaker 1: cop in New England, it's going out over the country
Speaker 1: has his description. If you love him, you don't want
Speaker 1: him to get stopped in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: some dark corner, some cop panics, he goes for a gun,
Speaker 1: The cop goes for a gun, and in your boyfriend
Speaker 1: ends up getting killed. You know, I tried to use
Speaker 1: that angle to have her be more concerned about, you know,
Speaker 1: not so much protecting him but getting him safe and
Speaker 1: making sure he didn't get hurt when he got apprehended.
Speaker 1: It seemed like a scare tactic. But I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that's what Loubi thought. He says, Anna didn't know what
Speaker 1: she was stepping into because remember, Victor was dangerous. The
Speaker 1: guy was on the run with two loaded guns and
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. I wanted to put down on paper
Speaker 1: that they lived together and that they were engaged to
Speaker 1: be married. And I think the day before she had
Speaker 1: actually gotten the marriage license certificate or something to get
Speaker 1: married or whatever it was from city hall. This was true.
Speaker 1: The couple had planned to marry days after the heist,
Speaker 1: her first marriage Victor's third. It's unclear whether Victor intended
Speaker 1: to go through with the wedding. Still, as far as
Speaker 1: Detective Luby was concerned, Anna Soto had been under the
Speaker 1: impression that they would be married by the end of
Speaker 1: that weekend. He used to call her before he get home.
Speaker 1: They'd be in voice contact a lot during the night,
Speaker 1: you know, like two love birds there. You know, he
Speaker 1: was on the phone, she was on the phone, and
Speaker 1: she didn't hear from him. That night. Apparently, according to her,
Speaker 1: we were over relatives of his that, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he's Apparently, according to her, he was very devoted to
Speaker 1: his mother, who lived in a aim general area in
Speaker 1: the south end of Harvard. He had some brothers that
Speaker 1: were not local that he was not close to. So
Speaker 1: the statement was basically a chance to get get information
Speaker 1: on the family, his routines, any close friends. Surprisingly, she
Speaker 1: he didn't, according to her, didn't have a lot of
Speaker 1: male friends or friends even on the job. He didn't
Speaker 1: get warm with people on job. They didn't go out
Speaker 1: socialize with people that much. And so I'm thinking, my
Speaker 1: cynical minds, thinking that she's covering for some friend that
Speaker 1: might be involved by telling me he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of friends. So it went from me feeling that
Speaker 1: she was probably the fiance that's all upset, that knows
Speaker 1: nothing about this, And now as I went on with her,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, she's not giving me everything here he was right.
Speaker 1: For the record, here's what Anna said in her statements
Speaker 1: during the first few days of the investigation that on
Speaker 1: the day of the robbery, Victor left home between ten
Speaker 1: fifteen and ten thirty in the morning and caught the
Speaker 1: bus to work. She said, she went with her cousin
Speaker 1: to get the marriage license at city hall, took her
Speaker 1: dogs to the park, and then went home alone. One
Speaker 1: specific detail Louby took note of was that Annac claim
Speaker 1: she had never seen the green Buick Victor used in
Speaker 1: the robbery, and that Victor didn't have any friends who
Speaker 1: owned that type of car. At some point I asked
Speaker 1: her does he drive a Buick at all? This described
Speaker 1: the car involved, and she said absolutely no. We knew
Speaker 1: Victor had used that night, had driven a car that
Speaker 1: was not normally his car. The car itself, the Buick,
Speaker 1: It was linked back to the Ugly Duckling or a
Speaker 1: rental wreckt or one of those used car beat up
Speaker 1: rental places, and you know we were. They were searching
Speaker 1: everywhere for the car. Victor in fact, had driven several
Speaker 1: different rental cars over the past few weeks, all of
Speaker 1: which were from the nearby Ugly Duckling rent a car
Speaker 1: and now defunct rental car company that was once considered
Speaker 1: competition to brands like Budget and Hurts. In August, two
Speaker 1: weeks before the robbery, Victor deposited two cash for a
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven Chevy Malibu, only to return it the
Speaker 1: following morning because his quote plans hadn't worked out. Ten
Speaker 1: days later, Victor called Ugly Duckling to reserve another full
Speaker 1: size car for the following Monday, the day of the robbery,
Speaker 1: but he was told the only way he'd be guaranteed
Speaker 1: a car on that day would be to rent it
Speaker 1: over the weekend. That second rental, a nineteen seventy eight
Speaker 1: Mercury Marquis, was again returned the following day due to
Speaker 1: the engine catching fire. As a replacement, Victor was given
Speaker 1: a nineteen seventy three buick Less Saber, the roomy sedand
Speaker 1: that police were now desperate to find. For Detective Luby,
Speaker 1: there was one more piece to the history besides finding
Speaker 1: that car. I knew that that car was important in
Speaker 1: the case because it wasn't his and it could indicate
Speaker 1: a co conspirator or someone else involved. The guards at
Speaker 1: at Wells Fargo had indicated that they thought there was
Speaker 1: more than one person involved in this because they could
Speaker 1: hear even though they were restrained and they were away
Speaker 1: from it, they could hear some kind of conversation in
Speaker 1: the background of the depot. There could Victor Harrena been
Speaker 1: working with someone else to pull off the robbery. It's
Speaker 1: completely plausible, and in fact, even more believable looking back
Speaker 1: and closer at the detailed accounts of what happened. There
Speaker 1: was one more thing the guards heard as they lay
Speaker 1: wide awake on the floor while Victor made several trips
Speaker 1: to and from the car. One hank could arguably be
Speaker 1: the result of Victor in a hurry to escape with
Speaker 1: the currency backs. But two consecutive hanks, now that's intentional.
Speaker 1: Why do you beat the horn? He's not saying goodbye
Speaker 1: to these two guys, He's saying, I'm coming out. And
Speaker 1: then there's this. The West Tarford Police got word that
Speaker 1: a car matching the description of the one used in
Speaker 1: the heist had been located just outside a local airport.
Speaker 1: It was empty, and of course then the first thing. Second,
Speaker 1: you can get a plane in and out. There's no
Speaker 1: tower there, there's no need to report when you land there.
Speaker 1: After hours this season on White Eagle and the money
Speaker 1: shows up. That was traceable money, And I'm thinking myself,
Speaker 1: your son, I think is something that's organized here? If
Speaker 1: she knew she's a great actress, because she was devastated
Speaker 1: the FBI and Connecticut never woke up to this thing.
Speaker 1: It was the FBI in Puerto Rico that put all together.
Speaker 1: They were of folks who wanted Puerto Rico to be
Speaker 1: part of the United States, but other folks felt that
Speaker 1: that was not what they wanted and they wanted to
Speaker 1: be their own nation. Things we could bloat up quite
Speaker 1: a bit, and the FBI decided that they were sick
Speaker 1: and tired of this business. The fact that Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: still being a call on he kind of chose you
Speaker 1: that they didn't get the support that they wanted. I
Speaker 1: was ready to engage in gunfire if it had to be,
Speaker 1: to protect my comrades from from getting caught. This whole
Speaker 1: issue is ignited a firestorm of controversy. What we want
Speaker 1: to know is why did the President make this decision?
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