172 - The Aqueduct - Wells Fargo Robbery

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On a chilly, fall afternoon in 1969 a red armored car moved quickly through the busy streets of Brooklyn. Pulling over for an impromptu lunch break, three guards began their rotation. One after the next they'd go to a nearby deli, grab a sandwich and head back to the truck. Then, as the last guard approached, three armed men appeared and forced him inside.

Cuffing the guards together and disarming them, the thieves drove the truck a few blocks over to where they had a getaway car waiting. In less than five minutes the three assailants drove off with more than one million dollars making it the second largest cash heist in American history, to that point.. By the time police arrived on the scene the robbers were long gone.

Investigators struggled with a series of unanswered questions; how did the thieves know the armored car would stop there that day? Was this an inside job, and if so, who was the guilty party? Was it somehow higher level, perhaps involving the mafia or was it connected to a series of robberies allegedly conducted by a ring of corrupt cops?

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0:39.1	On a cool fall afternoon in 1969, a red and white armored car pulled to a stop in Brooklyn.
0:47.2	One after the next, each of the three guards stepped out from the truck and walked into a nearby
0:52.2	deli to grab lunch. Returning to the truck, two of the guards sat eating while surrounded
0:57.8	by bags of cash from the aqueduct racetrack, totaling more than $2 million.
1:04.0	After their meal, they were set to deposit the money on Wall Street, but their day was about
1:08.9	to experience a dramatic shift. As the final guard returned to the truck,
1:14.3	three armed men grabbed him and forced their way inside.
1:18.0	Securing the guards' weapons and cuffing them together, the assailants put money bags over
1:22.4	their heads and drove a few blocks down to a waiting car. In less than five minutes, the three
1:27.9	men made off with over a million dollars and vanished just seconds before police arrived on the scene.
1:34.8	Investigators tried to pin the crime to a number of different suspects,
1:38.5	including a ring of corrupt cops, a pair of bank robbers, and even members of the Gambino crime
1:44.4	family. Now, more than 50 years later, what was once the second largest cash robbery in American
1:51.2	history is all but forgotten. And while others have been solved, this brazen daylight robbery
1:57.5	remains a complete mystery. Was this truly a random crime planned and executed by common crooks,
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