I robbed Loomis Fargo on October 4th, 1997. People from work joked about robbing Loomis all the time, but I had never seriously considered it until Kelly Campbell brought it up. I had graduated high school, joined the army, and served in the Gulf War repairing helicopters, but now I was only making eight dollars an hour working for Loomis in Charlotte, NC. My wife Tammy and I were unhappy in our marriage.4 I was unhappy with my life. I wanted to make a drastic change, and I went for it.3 I had seen Reservoir Dogs, and I had gotten a lot of robbery ideas from books.1 Robbing Loomis would be easy, everything I needed was right there in my lap. Loomis entrusted me with billions of dollars a day as the vault supervisor. I was by myself most weekends. …show more content…
I walked in, and then I realized I had thousands of dollars with me and millions on the way, I didn’t have to shop at Walmart. So, I walked right out and went to the mall instead.4 I knew I needed to disguise myself. I went by the name Michael McKinney, the name on my fake papers.6 I dyed my hair brown, started using tanning spray, and I even had both of my ears pierced. I enjoyed the Cancun life as I waited on Kelly. I spent a lot of time at the beaches and found my love for lobster. I shopped, went to bars, saw a bullfight, visited Mayan ruins, drove jet skis, and went deep sea fishing. I called Kelly every Tuesday and Thursday, and she continued to reassure me that she would be coming with more of my money soon and that she loved me. Steve only sent me a total of $25,000 from October to February.7 I was running out of money and I was getting frustrated that I wasn’t being sent more and that Kelly still hadn’t joined me. Finally, Steve agreed to send me more money through a man he called Bruno. He showed up to my hotel room with only $8,500, and I was furious. Why weren’t these people sending me my money? I called Steve again and he sent Bruno back with another $8,500 a week later. He also helped me move to Playa del Carmen after someone had recognized me in Cancun. It was then that Bruno informed me of how Steve was spending his …show more content…
He hadn’t realized the magnitude of the crime. Bruno told me that he had a friend named Robert who would help me out. I was wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers jersey when I met Robert, and it turns out, he likes the Steelers too. We got along well, and he informed me that Bruno had been hired to kill me by Steve, but Bruno asked Robert to do it for him.1 I couldn’t believe it, the man who had all the money I had stolen was plotting to murder me.7 It also turns out that Bruno’s real name was Mike McKinney, the man whose social security number and birth certificate I was using. Steve had told McKinney that he would pay him $250,000 dollars to kill me. This way, the FBI’s number one suspect would be gone and they could keep all of my
After a few days, Mr. Griffin’s disappearance was on the news. Of coarse, no one knew where Mr. Griffin really was, and what had actually happened to him. It was hard for them to keep it in. They all felt so bad, except for Mark.
"The Myth of The Robber Barons" by Burton W. Folsom, JR. tells a unique story about entrepreneurs in early America. The book portrays big businessmen as being behind America's greatness.
"I am a criminal. My 25-year-old daughter, Jody, was dying of bone cancer. The pain was so great that she couldn't bear to be touched, and drugs didn't help. Jody had a few weeks to live when she decided she wanted to end her life. But it wasn't legally possible. So I broke the law and got her the pills necessary. And as she slipped peacefully away, I climbed into her bed and I took her in my arms [Rosen's voice cracks with emotion] for the first time in months...." (1)
On 1997 four men were convicted of the rape and murder of Michelle Basko. The four men were Joe Dick, Daniel Williams, Eric Wilson, and Derek Tice. Detective Robert Ford believed that the four U.S. navy men were all guilty of the crime. One of the victim’s friend claimed that Daniel Williams, was Michelle Basko’s murderer. Based on the information provided by Basko’s friend, Ford suspected that William was guilty. With that, the series of harsh interrogations led by detective Robert Ford began. Detective Ford began his interrogatories with a label that Williams is the suspect. The psychological abuse he used, led Williams to make a false confession. After closing the case, the DNA results did not match the one in the crime scene. Instead of releasing Williams, it was believed that Joe
A University of San Diego professor whose daughter’s disappearance become a recurring factor in his life, has finally gotten the peace he deserves. After approximately five years of three unsolved murders, assailant David Allen Lucas, was convicted and sentenced to death. Lucas was a carpet cleaner from Spring Valley, CA and was 23 when he first committed a murder, but this was not his first time being convicted. In 1973, at the age of 18 Lucas was incarcerated after being convicted of raping a 21-year-old maid who had worked for a family friend.
Kenneth Bianchi was arrested on January 13, 1979, in Washington and admitted to being involved in killing many girls. On October 22nd, 1979, Kenneth made a plea bargain, which included him testifying about the involvement of his cousin, Angelo Buono. Kenneth’s trial lasted from November 16th, 1981 to November 18th, 1983, in which he had initially pleaded not guilty with insanity. Firstly, Kenneth had managed to convince the professionals that he had a split personality, in which his alter ego, Steve Walker, had committed these crimes. The detectives found out that Steve Walker is a student whose identity was attempted to be stolen, inducing Bianchi to create another alias by the name of Billy to convince the psychiatrists. One psychiatrist noticed his mess up when he was relaying what he remembered which led to his house being searched and books on modern psychology that helped him fake this disorder to be found. Once his secret was out he pleaded guilty and signed a plea bargain, where he would have to attest against his cousin for a lenient punishment. During his trial he convinced his defence lawyer that he was suffering from amnesia and did not think he nor his cousin committed the crimes. Secondly, evidence that condemned Bianchi included DNA results that showed that the pubic hairs on one of the victim’s bodies as well as the steps at the Bayside home. Also, fibres from the carpet in the Bayside home were found on one of the victim’s shoes. When Bianchi’s house was searched, jewellery was found that matched the descriptions of jewellery that two of his victims had worn; displaying that he stole it from them at some point. The case had many people testify against Bianchi. Kathleen Martin and Marlene Katz Booth were extra’s i...
While he is in jail, he is writing a script for a movie about the trial. The script helps Steve stay calm and not go crazy while he is in jail. Steve and his Defense Attorney, Kathy O’Brien, are trying to prove to the jury that Steve is innocent. Steve is thought to have been working with two other men, James King and Richard “Bobo” Evans. These two people robbed the store and then Steve apparently killed the owner of the store after Bobo and King left.
James T. Johnson was a young man who had a good job working as a construction worker. Although, he had a job and worked every day he still lived at home with his mother. Furthermore, he was the type of young man who went to work on time and after work he would come home. Unfortunately, there were occasions where he would go out with a few of his co-workers on a Friday he still came home afterwards. Nevertheless, he was hiding a secret from his mother that later led to him being arrested. Now, rather than James uses his money he had earned from working, he burglarized homes and garages in the communities in his area. After burglarizing these homes he would then sell the items he had stolen via the internet or a pawn shop in two different counties.
Reynolds Price’s “The Great Imagination Heist” discusses how television has corrupted the imaginations of today’s American youth. The idea behind the word “heist” suits the title and story well; however, I disagree with his idea that television and video games have stolen youthful imaginations.
The media has come to dominate the lives of many of today’s youths. In The Great Imagination Heist, Reynolds Price expresses extreme dismay at the media’s ever-tightening grasp over the impressionable minds of adolescents. He sincerely feels that the effects of prolonged exposure to television, film, video games, and the Internet are detrimental to the development of a youth’s imagination and ability to think freely, without outside influence. The word “heist” indicates the intention to rob or steal. Price laments what he perceives to be the robbing of original, personal thought. He longs for the days when people read books freely and television was little more than a negligible aspect of our daily lives.
July 15, 1999, was an ordinary night for Kristopher Lohrmeyer as he left work at the Colorado City Creamer, a popular ice cream parlor. Kristopher had no idea that his life was about to end. When Michael Brown, 17, Derrick Miller and Andrew (Andy) Medina, 15, approached Kristopher and demanded his money and his car keys. Before the boys knew it shots had been fired and Kristopher was dead. About an hour after the fatal shooting of Kristopher Lohrmeyer, all three men were in custody and telling their version of the night’s events. Michael and Derrick who had run away after the shooting confessed to police and named Andy as the shooter. According to the three boy’s testimony, they had only recently met and needed away to get some quick cash, so they developed a carjacking scheme and headed to Andy’s house to pick up 2 stolen handguns. The three boys were uneducated and had spent most of their time on the streets in search of drugs. The judge ruled that they would be held without bail and there was probable cause to charge them all with first-degree murder (Thrown Away, 2005).
In The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis, the author discusses corruption and the effects of corruption on Africans living under the resource curse, or Dutch disease. He also talks about a system responsible for the looting of Africa’s natural resources to benefit individuals and companies from Chinese, French, American, Brazilian, British, Israeli, and African elites. Burgis suffered from PTSD, which stemmed from the aftermath of the Jos massacre and other events he experienced in Africa. To cope with his PTSD, Burgis wrote down what he saw during his research, experiencing tremendous guilt in the process. Instead of his initial reasoning that the Jos massacre occurred due to “ethnic rivalries”, he started to see the real reason and how the massacre
Understanding Crime: Theory and Practice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishers. Woodham, J., & Toye, K. (2007). Empirical Tests of Assumption of Case Linkages & Offender’s profiling with Commercial Robbery.
He had a revolver in his hand, but he did not point it at them.
The worst day of my life began innocently enough with my small group of friends preparing to explore a cave. Each month the four of us, I, Jill, John, and Ted, would choose two or three caves and spend our weekends engrossed in exploring them. Today’s cave was a special one; it afforded just a small window of opportunity for exploration because it flooded completely with each high tide. As we checked our packs and made sure all our spelunking and survival gear was in order, a rather jovial, but sizable, fellow by the name of Scott Porker happened by and asked if he could join our group. We agreed, as we were always happy to be in the company of a kindred spirit, and since the tide had just gone out we began our descent into the cave.