#228 The ”Masterminds” Heist

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🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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AKA The Loomis Fargo heist was a robbery that took place in 1997 when then employee, David Ghant, loaded up 17 million dollars into a company van one night after his shift, only to then disappear into thin air. Leading the FBI on an international manhunt, as well as a large-scale investigation into his accomplices, which resulted in 21 people being indicted for the crime, 20 of which plead guilty. It is also the basis for the hit comedy movie “Masterminds” starring Zack Galifinakis in the leading role as David Ghant and Owen Wilson as his “accomplice”, Steve Chambers. factor.com/creeper50 Code:creeper50 True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/david-ghantt https://blog.prepscholar.com/david-scott-ghantt-loomis-fargo-heist https://tychr.com/david-ghantt-the-true-story-behind-the-loomis-fargo-heist/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5sw20b/comment/ddiwbde/ https://woman.forumdaily.com/en/samoe-glupoe-ograblenie-v-istorii-ssha-kak-nedovolnyj-rabotoj-klerk-poxitil-milliony-dollarov/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxImwEdrXCQ

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys Podcast. I'm your host Michael and my own
0:09.1	mastermind is here with me today Andy. What's up Andy? Oh I'm the mastermind behind this operation? You are, you get to be the mastermind today.
0:14.6	Whoa, whoa, whoa, big brain time. Yeah, even though it's not much of a compliment in reference to today's case.
0:20.8	I think it's more of like a sarcastic. I'll take it where I can get it.
0:24.3	It's kind of like when somebody calls you Einstein, you know? Yeah, smooth, yeah, I get what you say.
0:30.8	Damn it, continue with what you were doing then.
0:33.6	But either way, guys, we hope you had, had some happy holidays and had a happy new year.
0:39.9	We are back.
0:40.9	We took a week off last week. It was kind of unexpected, but you know, hey, we need some rest too. We need some rest. But we are back and ready to go and we thought we would ease back into the crime with something a little easier to talk about, right, Andy.
0:55.0	This is not exactly an ant heel kids episode like we did on Patreon a couple weeks ago.
0:59.0	Oh, there's nothing in this episode that's like scarring my brain and just like clawing to get out. Not in this episode that's like just scarring my brain and just like clawing to get out
1:04.1	this episode unfortunately but anyways guys in our last episode of
1:09.4	2023 before we get into this week we talked about all of our favorite and most memorable cases from the past year
1:14.8	but this week to start off 2024 we're gonna start with something a little different but it's something that we've been
1:21.1	itching to do for a long time.
1:23.0	A heist.
1:24.0	Yes, my- yes!
1:26.3	But not just any heist, okay?
1:28.0	No, no, no.
1:28.6	We decided to start our year off with none other than the largest,
1:32.0	the dumbest, and the most well-known
1:34.5	heist from our hometown, the 1997 Lumas Fargo
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