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Evidence Locker True Crime

73: The Stander Gang | South Africa

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

André Stander was a police captain who robbed banks in his lunch hour then resumed his afternoon shift as an investigator. Hero or villain?
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Fort Lauderdale – The Ballad of André Stander
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This True Crime Podcast was researched using open source or archive materials.

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0:45.3

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0:58.4

In the summer of 1983, Trix Style was working as a bank teller at the Trust Bank Bank in Benoni, Johannesburg, when something happened that she would never forget in her own words

1:06.6

These two men came in one came in towards me and the other one walked around the office and came into my cashier's cage and stood behind me.

1:14.4

That was my call.

1:16.4

Standard put a big sports bag on the counter, took out a revolver, and pointed at me and said,

1:21.2

don't push any buttons or anything. So they must have known exactly

1:24.8

how the alarm and security system worked. Strangely enough, I wasn't scared of Stander who

1:29.9

openly pointed the revolver at me, but McCall, who was standing behind me with his hand in his pocket, who I realized probably also had a gun, I was scared of him.

1:40.0

The men left the bank as calmly as they had entered it.

1:44.0

As soon as they had left the bank, Tricks pressed the alarm button,

1:48.0

and within minutes the bank was swarming with police.

1:51.0

Among the bank employees, there was an adrenaline-fueled chatter, as the realization dawned on them.

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