It’swell establishedon this blog that I ’m fascinated by depository financial institution robberies . ( Not that I ’d ever slip anything except copyrighted images and the occasional MP3 myself , no sir . ) Thus , for your second episode of Forbidden Friday , I present to you :
Great Bank looting
OK , in term of actual winner , this 1876 robbery was a flop . But it had a heck of a cast : legendary bandits Frank and Jesse James ; Cole , Jim and Bob Younger ; and three lesser - know crook . Their target was Northfield ’s First National Bank , which the crew settled on after casing a half - twelve other townspeople . understandably , not enough casing , as the robbery could n’t have gone spoilt . The bank ’s cashier refused to launch the secure , an awake passerby sound the alarm , and townspeople killed two of the robbers as the rest elude . A workweek afterward , a posse kill or capture all of the other crook except the James buddy , who scat home to Missouri . It was the beginning of the destruction for 19th - 100 America ’s most notorious bandit . bad still ? The take from the Northfield depository financial institution was a mere $ 26.70 .
Two more dastardly heist - meisters after the startle .
The Trench Coat Job : It was past quitting meter when two man wearing buttoned - up oceanic abyss coats let themselves into the Seafirst Bank in Lakewood , Washington , a suburbia of Tacoma . Flashing a hired gun , the pair stuffed 355 pounds of hard currency – $ 4.46 million " “ into sack and made a fresh pickup . Insane , proper ? The 1997 holdup was actually the largest bank looting in U.S. history , but this was n’t the workplace of amateur . Nope . Ray Bowman and William Kirkpatrick were real pros . In fact , between 1982 and 1998 , Bowman and Kirkpatrick were believed to have robbed 28 banks around the country for a total of more than $ 7 million . Even more telling : only once was there gunshot , and no one was hurt . A special FBI task force was mold , but it was betise that finally tripped them up . Kirkpatrick was stopped for speeding in late 1998 by a Nebraska state trooper . A search of the motorcar turned up four handguns , fake badges , two ski masks " “ and $ 1.8 million in cash . Meanwhile , Bowman had failed to give the split on a store locker in Kansas City , Missouri . When the owner opened it , and happen a virtual armory of guns , he holler the cops , and they collared Bowman at his suburban Kansas City home a few weeks after Kirkpatrick ’s arrest . The dapper duad was convict in 1999 , with Bowman getting slapped with 24 years , Kirkpatrick with 15 .
