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Norco 80

Chapter 4: The Final Chase

Norco 80

LAist Studios

True Crime

3.7889 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The robbers lead police on a winding chase that ends in a devastating standoff at the top of a mountain.

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0:00.0

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0:16.6

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0:29.2

A quick warning

0:31.2

Some of the series includes descriptions of graphic violence

0:35.2

Last week on Norco AD descriptions of graphic violence.

0:41.3

Last week on Norco 80. When we were young, he told me that he had to do something,

0:45.3

and that was to kill somebody.

0:47.3

He wanted to know what it felt like.

0:49.3

They were digging a tunnel for the purpose of if a bomb hits or something.

0:55.5

Yeah, they would talk about stuff like that.

0:58.1

They would talk about how it's coming to an end.

1:08.2

Deputy Rolf Parks was just over 10 miles away from Norco on May 9th, 1980, when he heard a radio broadcast about armed robbers leaving a Norco bank shootout.

1:19.7

Yeah, I had just made a car stop on somebody and I was about to issue a ticket and I hear this stuff going on and you get that chill.

1:26.5

I mean, it's that chill that runs down your arms. Rolf raced to back up his fellow officers. He was one of at least a dozen cops on the radio channel. Where are they going? Quit yolling. Calm down. Where they're going? And so I'm trying to listen without saying anything on the air. And you hear a lot of other people talking, I'm en route, I'm out, I'm out, I'm over here,

1:46.3

I'm over there.

1:47.2

First of all, I think I can't as least five suspects, but please three got away in that hill at

1:51.3

front.

1:55.8

Soon, it became clear that the robbers were headed northeast, into a maze of suburbs as they tried to flee.

2:03.8

There was no freeway that ran through Norco at the time. So to be in like the center of town and having to get out,

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