Cowboy Bob - Criminal Spotlight

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In May 1991, a bank robber walked into a bank in Irving, Texas, and without speaking handed the teller a note that read, “This is a bank robbery. Give me your money. No marked bills or dye packs.” Witnesses reported that the robber was wearing a cowboy hat and a brown leather jacket. And then it happened again. And again. But when FBI agents finally got a lead, they discovered that the robber wasn’t who they expected at all…

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Season 12 - Episode 23 - Snap Spotlight

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0:00.0	Snap Judgment Studios
0:16.0	Today in Snap Judgment we proudly present the criminal spotlight, cowboy Bob.
0:21.0	We begin in Irving, Texas.
0:23.0	The story about a Robert Cowboy, the FBI could not catch, not even the FBI's best guy.
0:29.0	And this Robert never hurt anyone.
0:32.0	Always stayed calm, getting out before anyone had any idea the loot was gone.
0:37.0	The story comes to us from the award-winning podcast Criminal.
0:40.0	It's hosted by Phoebe Judd.
0:42.0	The criminal was one of the first, if not the first, true crime podcast.
0:47.0	They tell incredible stories of people who's done wrong, been wrong.
0:51.0	But gotten caught somewhere in the middle. I can't wait for you to hear it.
0:54.0	So get ready to tip your hat.
0:57.0	The cowboy Bob.
1:00.0	Well, I can remember reading the newspaper and back then the newspapers
1:05.0	would print the grainy black and white photos of bank robbers or suspects and crimes.
1:11.0	And there was this photo of a man dressed in a cowboy hat and boots and leather coat.
1:17.0	It was like May 1991.
1:20.0	Skip Holland's worth is a writer for Texas Monthly.
1:23.0	A man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and a brown leather jacket
1:28.0	walked into a bank in Irving, Texas in May of 1991.
1:33.0	Without speaking, he handed the teller a note that read,
1:37.0	this is a bank robbery. Give me your money. No marked bills or die packs.
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