230: Walter Lamar and Stephen Chenoweth – Sleepover Bank Robbers, Part 2

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 5 May 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Retired agents Walter Lamar and Stephen Chenoweth review how a new emergency wiretap authorization for pay phones aided in the nationwide manhunt and capture of FBI Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives Terry Lee Conner and Joseph William Dougherty. Conner and Dougherty met in prison and in the 1980s began working together in one of the most professional bank robbery operations in U.S. history. They would identify the bank manager and where he lived, hold him hostage the night before, and forcibly escort him to the bank where they would empty the vault. Known as the sleepover bandits, their well-planned and methodical robberies netted them more than $1 million. After their daring escape from custody, Conner and Dougherty earned a place on the FBI and the U.S. Marshals' top wanted fugitives lists.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 230 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:11.2	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the
0:16.3	FBI does through my books, my blog, and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:22.4	Today we get to speak to once again
0:25.2	retired agent Stephen Chenoweth and Walter Lamar. In part one of this episode
0:31.8	they reviewed their bank robbery investigation of Terry Lee Connor and Joseph William Dochredy, and their unique bank robbery method of identifying the bank manager and where he lived, holding him
0:46.2	and his family hostage the night before, and then forcibly escorting him to the bank where
0:51.9	they would empty out the vault.
0:54.4	In part two of this episode, Walt and Steve review how a new court authorization to
1:00.8	tap payphones, aid it in the nationwide manhunt and capture of Connor and
1:06.3	Dachriti. I'm not going to read Steve Chenoweth and Walter Lamar's Bios again.
1:12.8	You'll find those in the episode Show Notes,
1:15.4	but I do want to remind you when this case took place.
1:18.8	Steve Chenoweth is a veteran FBI agent assigned to the Phoenix division and Walter Lamar is a new agent
1:28.4	with just three years in assigned to the San Francisco division. But before we get to the San Francisco division.
1:33.0	But before we get to the interview, I want my reader team members to know
1:38.0	that I sent out my May Reader Team email on Monday, May 3rd.
1:43.6	So if it's not in your inbox, you know what to do.
1:46.3	Check your spam filter and your promotion tab.
1:49.4	And this issue, I write about the FBI's Most Won it program and I review how the FBI is
1:55.8	portrayed in the bank robbery movie The town. Have you noticed that there are no
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