For seven years, a group of bank robbers flaunted their expertise in front of security cameras,

and law enforcement could do little more than watch and marvel.

They left no forensic evidence behind and always got away before police arrived.

But how they stood, what they said, and the clothes they wore all told the story,

one that could be deciphered by forensic science.

Calabash North Carolina is a quiet fishing town located just over the state line from

the Mertle Beach South Carolina.

To sum it up is a perfect place to lay quiet, the best seafood in the world,

and that's how Calabash was known.

In September of 1991, in broad daylight, two masked men with handguns walked into one of the local banks.

A teller pushed the silent alarm, but the robbers got away with $40,000 before police arrived.

The closest police station was our county complex, which is about 25 to 30 miles away.

The bank was equipped with surveillance cameras that used 35mm film.

And most instances we have, banks are reliant to video tapes,

which don't give us a lot of quality and don't allow us the opportunity to enhance the photos.

The pictures showed a well-organized crime.

Some individuals go in banks with no gloves, no mask, and no plan.

Those are the easiest ones to catch.

The folks that are well planned, well orchestrated, prove to be the most difficult challenge in a law enforcement.

The men entered the bank just after an armored truck made its daily delivery of cash from the Federal Reserve Bank.

They didn't walk around the bank like nervous or anything, and they had to get away car waiting,

and they were watching to get away car at the whole time, they could see us at the door.

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