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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky. Good evening.

At just 21 years of age, friends Todd Wilson and Scott McCarthy were virtually inseparable.

The pair reported for duty at United Bank of Denver at 6 a.m. on Father's Day, 1991,

McCarthy's first day on the job. They joined two more experienced guards and began making their rounds.

By 9.30 a.m., all four were dead.

The killer then descended upon the cash vault where he held six petrified tellers at gunpoint,

before absconding with nearly $200,000.

18 days later, the Denver Police Department arrested one of its own.

Not only had retired Sergeant James W. King served on the force for 25 years,

he'd recently been a guard at United Bank, often complaining about the abysmal security,

including a decision to disarm its guards.

But would he slaughter four of his unarmed successors to prove his point, and risk a date with the execution chamber? Deadly Heist is the captivating story of one of Colorado's most notorious crimes and of

a courtroom slug fest that would take a jury nine grueling days to resolve.

Its verdict, delivered a year and a day after the bloody massacre, reverberates across

the Rocky Mountains to this day.

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