WEBVTT - 3. Creating a Crap Storm 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.360 Gampsy media march lash. 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.799 So Rory, what are the good people of planet Earth 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.960 need to know to enjoy Episode three? 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:23.959 What happened last week? 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.319 Never partner up with a pothead when you're going to 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:30.240 be stealing massive amounts of money that belonged to a 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:34.159 bank and becomes a federal crime is the main issue. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:36.800 But I will say, to our surprise, we find out 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.519 that David Gant, having put all this money in a 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.440 truck and passed it off to huge morons and even 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.800 being a moro on himself, somehow has made it to Cancun, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.080 Mexico to lay low for as long as possible. And 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.960 so we wonder, well, what happened to the other gaggle 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.520 of geese while he's down there in Mexico. We're about 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.000 to find out here on episode three. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.520 Okay, then let's get onto the episode. Here's Crimeless Hillbilly 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.160 Heist Episode three. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.480 It's the middle of the night at an upscale hotel 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.640 in Cancun, Mexico. David Gand has sprawled out on the bed, 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:21.480 still wearing his clothes and his pantyhose, money belt and 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.800 his cowboy boots stuffed with cash. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:30.280 I wake up about three or four in morning. It's 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:36.840 almost like I'm hungover from adrenaline. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.480 As David comes to he starts peeling off his clothes 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.640 to get to the money. He organizes the stack of bills. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.520 The cash has been stuck to him for almost forty 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.440 eight hours. It's got that money stench he knew so 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.080 well from his days driving the Loomis van. But there's 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:56.120 a difference. This time. It's mixed with his own. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.360 Stench, the essholes of Dave, if you will. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.800 After all the stress of the heist and the escape, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.520 suddenly everything is going easy. Yesterday his plane landed and 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.160 he breezed through Mexican customs while carrying twenty five grand 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.040 in small bills. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.760 And they could care less. I could have took an 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:19.760 elephant off that airplane with me. Told him the circus 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:20.480 was in town. 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:23.000 He opped in a cab and the driver made him 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:23.760 feel right at home. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:29.640 He speaks in very good English. Hotel expensive or cheap? 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.600 I go expensive, expensive as fine. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.680 That's how David Gant got to this fancy hotel. Surreptitiously 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.520 paid for a two week stay in cash up front, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.880 and smoothly tipped the concierge extra to ignore this suspicious 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.799 redheaded gringo, finally making it to his room, and now 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.639 as he's stacking the money, he realizes what he needs 0:02:52.680 --> 0:03:01.760 to do next. As soon as the sun comes up 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:08.640 over Cancun's white sand beaches, it's time for a shopping spree. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.080 The Kogle con Mall is just the place for a 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:17.800 man with a wallet full of stolen cash. It's got fountains, statues, skylights, 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.040 and luxury goods behind plexiglass, and for the first time 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:27.720 in his life, David can buy whatever he wants. His 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.680 first stop, of course, is a cowboy theme men's department. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.800 I'll spend most of my life in work boots, but 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.040 I love cowboy boots. I like expensive cowboy groots. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.280 Or at least he thinks he likes expensive cowboy boots, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.920 he's never actually had a pair. He chooses a beautiful 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.360 pair of brown leather boots and realizes it'd be a 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.160 crime to put a cheap pair of socks in these puppies. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.760 I could buy was like these silk liners for your socks. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.080 That's extravagant. Let's get two of those. 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.440 He also needs some new gen and then the ultimate luxury. 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.200 And this is where I discovered the joy of khaki 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.920 cargo pants. I've been faithful to them ever since. Pockets. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:12.400 You gotta have them. 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.560 In another store, David found a tailor who made silk 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:20.479 shirts sighs perfectly to his lanky measurements. He wisely ordered. 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:24.960 Four of them, red, green, blue, and white with deer 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:30.159 antler buttons. I let the money just fly. It was great, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:35.520 just two hundred dollars sunglasses, shirt, give me two pairs. 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.400 Oh and to complete the look, he put on a 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:44.200 layer of spray TND. David's makeover is complete. Now what. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:46.479 Now? 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.000 I've never had this problem. I've got money time. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:53.080 What do I do? 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.839 Because usually my activity belimited to whatever was free or cheap, 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.400 And so I've got a really weird dilemma for myself. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.640 What do I do? 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.080 He sees an ad for horseback riding, and all of 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:07.920 a sudden. 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.440 I'm riding horse through the Mexican jungle. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:14.880 A fugitive on horseback wearing two hundred dollars sunglasses and 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.160 shiny new cowboy boots. Indiana Jones looks like a jump jockey. 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.080 Compared to David Gant on his South of the Border adventure, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.560 everything David dreamed about is finally coming true. He just 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.560 needs to wait for Kelly to arrive with the rest 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.039 of the money so they can start their new life 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:32.440 together in Paradise. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:38.040 I know that for her to leave is dangerous for 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.200 her and me. She would just draw him to me. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:46.080 I'm thinking, if we can survive the first ninety one 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.520 hundred and twenty days, things will cool off. 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:54.960 In excruciating weight, possibly not survivable, but there's a plan 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.240 to stay in contact. David will call a payphone at 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.400 a gas station a short drive from Kelly's house. Kelly 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.320 will be there to answer every Tuesday at one o'clock. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.760 When the first call finally comes, Kelly sounds distressed. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:14.520 She says, you know, hey, this has created a crapstorm. Okay, 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:19.560 we've made a mess. This made national news. I don't 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.400 think they understood what was going to happen. I'm like, yeah, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.520 he's stole almost twenty million dollars. What do you think 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:26.200 was gonna happen. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.680 It's easy to be so casual if you're a desperado 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.600 and a silk shirt living in a luxury hotel. But 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.720 back home in North Carolina, the smell of that coming 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:44.920 crap storm was strong in the Breeze from SmartLess Media, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.920 Campsite Media, and Big Money Players in partnership with iHeart Podcasts. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.120 I'm Johnny Knoxville and you're listening to crime list phill 0:06:53.160 --> 0:07:17.720 Billy Heist. This is episode three, The Oncoming Crap Storm. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.280 I was a new agent and we were having lunch 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.320 and all our pages went off. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.559 This is former FBI agent John Wydra. He is a tall, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.600 handsome guy. One look from him and you'll feel like 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.920 you're probably guilty of something or wish you were. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.760 Everybody has three lives everybody. You got your public life 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.800 that everybody knows about, you know, what you post on 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.120 Instagram or your Facebook page or whatever. Then you got 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.600 your private life that pretty much maybe only your spouse 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.240 and close family and friends know. Then you got your 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.880 secret life. That's where I spent most of my time 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.080 in everyone's secret life. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.080 John was an imposing guy in his youth, especially for 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.440 a guy whose specialty was accounting. He looked like if 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:09.440 Dolph Lungern and David Hasselhoff put on a suit two 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.520 sizes too small, strong chin, quafft hair, ready to draw 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.200 his gun or a calculator at a moment's notice. On 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.360 this fateful Sunday in the fall of nineteen ninety seven. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.840 He's barely a year into his time with the bureau. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.200 I was thirty two. I was young, full of piss 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.520 and Benniger, you know, wanting to kick indoors chase people. 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:32.640 I was the moneylaundering coordinator for the State of North 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.360 Carolina at the time, and I'd worked financial crimes, any 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:42.200 type of financial crime, Ponzi schemes, embezzlements, things of that nature. 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.880 When Widra got to the office, agents were saying that 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.240 someone had robbed a Loomis Fargo armored car. But he 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.080 quickly learned that this sixtinc summary of events didn't quite 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:54.280 capture what had happened. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.800 You normally think of an armored car robbery is like 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.280 coming in with guns and yanking people out at truck. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.960 This was more like an embezzlement. But they took it 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.679 out of the money belonged to the bank, so it 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:08.559 was a federal crime. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.480 Wydra and other agents were dispatched to Loomis Fargo to 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:17.720 assess the crime scene and interview the employees. When they 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.400 got there, they found a red Dodge Dakota pickup truck 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.920 that belonged to the Loomis vault manager David Scott ganned. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.760 His wedding ring was left on the dashboard, so we 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.920 were thinking at first like this was a message he's 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:31.200 just moving on with his life. 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.600 That was the first clue. But when the agents got 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:38.440 inside the Loomis facility, the vault was locked. David had 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.080 set the timer so it couldn't be opened. Loomis had 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.120 a locksmith working furiously trying to bypass the system, but 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.160 in the meantime, the investigators couldn't get in to see 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.200 how much money was stolen. To make matters worse, the 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.679 security tapes were missing, well two of them were missing. 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.520 But he didn't realize that there was a third video 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.559 machine that they hid in the locked cabinet that only 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.400 executive management knew about. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:09.959 For that very reason, a very pissed off Loomis manager 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.640 plays this tape for the FBI and it's really quite 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:14.120 a show. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.600 You could see him on the camera working his ass 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.400 off to put the money in the van. 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.360 They still don't know how much money was gone, but 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.480 based on the video, it was a slop jar full. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.680 It was a little over an hour of him back 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.120 and forth and you could see him sweating and stopping 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.959 and taking a break and loading up a palette and 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.120 pushing the palette over to the van. He's a rail 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.679 He couldn't weighed more than one hundred and fifty pounds, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:41.240 soaking wet. 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:48.000 David was one determined fella, but determined and discerning are 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.800 two very different qualities. And there was another clue caught 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:52.360 on camera. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.800 You could see in the video he kept stopping and 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.720 looking at his pager, so he was in communication with somebody, 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.840 and we ran the records. We found out that it 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.120 was his phone calling his pager, so it didn't really 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.480 lead anywhere, but he had given his phone to somebody, 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:10.559 So now we're looking for David ann at least one 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:11.200 other person. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.880 Whydra and the other agents interviewed the other employees, but 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:21.160 they weren't very much help. David's motives were unclear. Did 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.360 he ditch the wedding ring and steal the money to 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.880 reboot his life or was he simply a stooge and 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:29.480 some mastermind had forced him into the crime. When agents 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.400 interviewed David's wife, Tammy, she was terrified. She had been 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.280 worrying about her husband's whereabouts ever since he hadn't come 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.240 home from work and had waited for news all night 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.840 long with David's parents. Tammy also had already filed the 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.719 missing persons report. She told the agents she didn't think 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.160 David would have robbed the vault unless he was forced to. 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:51.800 David's parents said the same thing. When the agents finally 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.840 got access to the vault, they discovered the full extent 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.760 of the crime. In a twist of fate, David had 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.079 robbed the vault on a weekend when it was stuff 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.080 with an unusually large amount of money. There was a 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.520 huge NASCAR race in town that weekend, a race sponsored 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:09.160 by Bank of America, as it turned out, and b 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.480 of A had a bunch of extra twenty dollars bills 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.640 ready to stock the ATMs, all adding a lot more 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.040 weight and value to David's hall. 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.199 Seventeen point three million dollars. When we've calculated how much 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.720 that would weigh, it was about twenty eight hundred pounds. 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.640 David Gant was missing, along with seventeen point three million dollars, 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.680 and the FBI hardly had any leads. But a couple 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.720 of days later, a man out in the sticks of 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:39.960 Mecklenburg County was mowing his lawn and saw an extremely 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.240 poorly hidden white. 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:45.320 Van and you could see through the window money, and 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.280 we're like, maybe all the money's there. Maybe got cold 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.480 feet and just left. We had no idea how much 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.320 it was, but you could tell it was a lot. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.280 It was a lot of cash sitting in the back 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:54.640 of the van. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.440 The FBI told the van back to their office to 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:00.240 break into it. A few of the Beefier agents used 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.560 the Steve Chambers method, pounding on the bulletproof glass with 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.040 large rocks for a few hours until they finally got 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:10.200 it open. Not really, the FEDS did FBI stuff to 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:10.719 open the van. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.160 All we break into it and it's only three point 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:15.800 three million dollars that's in the back. 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.440 Nowhere close to all the money. But for the agents, 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.160 three million bucks just left behind wasn't the most shocking thing. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.080 They found inside. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.560 Two videotapes, the keys to the vault, the keys to 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:33.800 other trucks, they were all in there. So now we're 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:37.480 starting to worry. When we find that, We're like, there's 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.640 no way he left the videotapes. He intentionally took and 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.000 left them behind, and that we know he was working 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.400 with somebody else. So now we're thinking if this is 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:49.960 the mob David's dead. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:55.360 Despite an abandoned armored truck and an empty bank vault 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.960 and a gun and the three videotapes, the FBI doesn't 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:03.600 have much to go on. Okay, they actually have lots 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.080 to go on, but they still don't have anything pointing 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.000 to who David was working with or being forced to 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.839 work with. But the Feds have an ace up their 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:16.760 sleeve because almost everyone in America still watches the same 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.720 five channels every night, and millions of them are about 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:25.200 to feast their eyeballs on the delightful parade of Holy shit, 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.960 my life could be way worse than it is America's most. 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:32.960 Wanted Focusing on the facts, it is exposing America's most wanted. 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.480 And America's most wanted is all in on the David 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.800 Gant story. The tips are about to start rolling in. 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.600 It's October eleventh, nineteen ninety seven. It's been a week 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.680 since David Gant emptied a bank vault with his bare hands, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.760 and the FBI is still hoping for something that will 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.240 help them find David. The money and the person or 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.960 persons paging him during the crime tonight has the potential 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.760 to offer a big break in the case because at 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.680 nine PM, Eastern America's Most Wanted will air a segment 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.080 on David Gant, perpetrator of one of the largest cash 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.880 heists in American history. The FBI is expecting hundreds of 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.720 phone calls that could turn into actionable tips that will 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:30.280 help them track David down. They have agents manning the 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:34.080 America's Most Wanted phone bank and other agents positioned on 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.800 the streets of Charlotte standing by to run down any 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:44.520 clues that come in. John Widre is at the FBI 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:47.600 command post with the number of his colleagues, his eyes 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.800 glued to the TV. Right now, it's playoff baseball Game 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.240 three of the American League Championship, with the Baltimore Orioles 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.400 and Cleveland Indians battling for a spot in the World Series. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.320 The stakes are high, but as baseball games tend to do, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.880 this one drags on and on and on, it goes 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:07.640 into extra innings. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.160 They come across and say it Americans must want. It 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.440 won't be played on the East Coast because of the 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.480 extra innings in this playoff game, which just kind of 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:18.880 took the wind out of our sales. We were really 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.320 hoping for some good leads and actually got nothing out 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:21.600 of it. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.160 If anyone on the East Coast had been able to 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.200 watch the segment, they would have seen David's wife Tammy. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:32.040 She's speaking directly to the camera, pleading with David to 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.040 call or come home if he can, and reminding him 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:40.320 that she loves him no matter what. And where is 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.200 David while his wife is begging him for a safe return? 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:52.120 Bouro football? They put you on the mule and what 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.360 they do is they have the soccer ball and they've 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:57.960 got the Burros don't care and you're out saying you 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.480 got a broom and the Burghs just look at You're like, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:02.760 I don't want to run. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.320 Starting the day after the theft, Steve and Michelle Chambers 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.560 knew they couldn't just keep fourteen million dollars in plastic 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.159 barrels covered in dog food. That'd be stupid. They needed 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:22.480 to put that money to work. So on Monday morning 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:26.760 after the weekend Heis, Michelle stuffed a black briefcase full 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.240 of cash and walked into her local bank. She slyly 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:34.040 approached the teller, ready to weave a complicated web of deception. 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.560 Move number one on the four D chess board asked 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:39.760 to tell her how much cash she could deposit without 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:44.119 you know, the bank having to file paperwork. The teller 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.720 fell right into Michelle's trap and just answered the question. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:52.800 The limit was ten thousand dollars. Now Michelle had all 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.960 the information she required for phase two of her ingenious plan. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.960 She opened the briefcase right there at the window and 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.200 counted out ninety five hundred dollars of small bills, still 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.840 in the Lumis wrappers, of course, and handed them to 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:12.280 the teller. Then it was onto the third and final 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.960 phase of her plan. One last final bit of reassurance 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.240 for the teller so that she would forget this interaction 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:24.199 ever happened. Don't worry, Michelle told her it ain't drug money. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.560 With that, she left and her bank account was almost 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:34.520 ten thousand dollars fuller without a trace of paperwork. Well done, Michelle, 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.800 except that teller definitely filed paperwork. What's known in the 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:43.200 trade is a suspicious activity report. So the FBI has 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.840 Michelle Chambers dead to rights, soda, because there's one problem. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:49.840 It's still nineteen ninety seven. 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:57.720 Just because these bank tellers were filing forms about these 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.880 cash depositives did not mean that these forums were getting 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:02.680 to the FBI in real time. I think it took 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.760 one or two or maybe even three months often from 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.560 the time these were filled out to when the FBI 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:12.400 could actually use them, you know, in an actionable way. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:15.359 But the chambers aren't just working to slowly sock money 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.760 away in the bank ninety five hundred bucks at a time. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.080 The next morning, after the hist Steve had buried another 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.879 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a Duffel bag 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.440 in the backyard outside of their mobile home. Michelle was 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:35.840 home alone. A big rainstorm hit, water's pooling everywhere. She's 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.840 sure the money is getting soaked. She runs into the 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.320 middle of the storm and starts frantically digging holes trying 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.600 to recover the money, but of course Steve didn't mark 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:50.280 the location. Michelle is hysterical. She can't find the money, 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.800 and now her yard looks like it's been attacked by gophers. 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:59.119 When Steve returns home, he unhursed the cash. It's sopping wet. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:19:59.960 No matter. 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.800 They decided to put the money in the dryer. Steve 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:07.240 told Michelle, based on something he'd heard, put poker chips 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.159 in there because it would help the money not be 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:12.679 stuck to each other, and it actually worked, a literal 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.120 example of money laundering. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.080 A big win and maybe the first smart thing they've done, 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.400 which is not an indication of things to come, because 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.040 pretty much immediately after the hist Steve and Michelle do 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:29.399 the most conspicuous thing possible. They upgrade from their mobile 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.879 home to a literal mansion. 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:36.480 The house that. 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.840 Steve and Michelle moved into was a beautiful, beautiful house 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:42.560 and impress all of their friends and all of their relatives. 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.640 It had a really nice foyer with a curved staircase. 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.440 They had a grand piano in it, a huge kitchen, 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.159 a living room with a gas fireplace, a bedroom with 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.560 a fireplace. It was the type of place that you 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:59.399 would move into if you had lived in much smaller 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:02.440 surroundings and be like, I have made it, and everybody 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.879 who knows me from where I used to live is 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:05.800 going to think that I've made it. 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.720 This is exactly what you want after a bank robbery, 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.159 all your friends talking about how much money you suddenly have. 0:21:14.240 --> 0:21:18.320 Steve that sly fox has a few explanations ready for 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.960 his friends to kind of bs the Kelly says he's 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.879 been spouting his entire life about mob ties, gambling winnings, 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.720 you know the type. But when it came to his 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.120 new neighbors in the gated community, Steve had another tall 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.240 tail in his pocket. He had all this money because 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:42.000 he used to play professional football for the Dallas Cowboys. Okay, Steve. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.320 Told the people there that he was a ex Dallas 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.600 football player and he just wanted to be larger than 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:50.040 he was. 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:54.440 Steve can't just be a retired banker or an heir 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:58.040 to some sausage fortune. He has to be a retired 0:21:58.040 --> 0:22:00.760 football player. And he had to play for the Dallas 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.639 fucking Cowboys who had just won three out of the 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:08.320 last four Super Bowls. Here's Kathy Hooper, Kathy spelled with 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:10.880 a k who became neighbors with the Chambers when they 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:12.400 moved into the gated community. 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.159 He just was telling everybody that he was an ex 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:21.439 pro football player he played for the Dallas Cowboys, and 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.800 we just assumed that he really did, you know, nobody 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.480 questioned him or anything, so because he was a big 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.240 guy and he looked like he could be a football player. 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:35.000 Amazingly, Steve's ego allowed him to stumble into the perfect 0:22:35.040 --> 0:22:38.600 alibi to give to his new posh neighbors. There was 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:42.840 already a professional basketball player in the neighborhood. And also Michael. 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:46.480 Jordan loved playing golf at our club. He came here 0:22:46.600 --> 0:22:47.919 a lot and played golf. 0:22:49.960 --> 0:22:53.000 Kathy Spelled with the K's best friend is Kathy Young. 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.919 Kathy Spelled with the Sea. Kathy with the Sea was 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:57.720 the mayor of Cramerton at the time. 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:03.440 My job as mayor was basically to conduct monthly meetings 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.760 and do annual budgets with the town. I think most 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:10.840 people run for mayor to get to ride in the parade. 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.280 And even this decorated paraded citizen of Cramerton felt that 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:16.640 Steve and Michelle fit the part. 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:23.000 They had luxury cars BMW convertibles and she had a 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:26.720 big diamond ring, and they looked the part. There was 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.679 no reason to think that these people didn't have the 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:34.080 money to be in the neighborhood or couldn't afford the house. 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:38.080 In other words, when buying your way into a luxury community, 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.679 it's important to go all in, and that's exactly what 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:44.720 the Chambers did. But all this is happening while Steve 0:23:44.800 --> 0:23:46.240 is telling Kelly to lay low. 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.560 He would tell me, don't don't take any trips, don't 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:53.840 be flashing money around. They'll get his car. And the 0:23:53.880 --> 0:23:58.919 whole time, you know, he's bought a new vehicle. He 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.399 bought a furniture store. 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.640