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I Was A Bank Robber - This Is How I Did It | Victor Shear

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

A former bank robber reveals the details of a shocking heist and how he was ultimately captured. Tune in to hear his incredible story and what led to his downfall. Big thanks to FACTOR for sponsoring this episode: Head to FACTORMEALS.com/lockedin50 and use code lockedin50 to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next month while your subscription is active! Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with: Victor Shear: Instagram: shearvictor Facebook: mad.duck.pond.2024 Book a stay: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/963715517898194259?source_impression_id=p3_1717713368_P3T_4pX6wsO2ruB1 Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:06:03 - Childhood Memories and Bad Crowd Decisions 00:12:00 - From Bank Robber to Bear Guide 00:18:09 - From New York to Ground Zero 00:24:43 - Transforming Meals with Factor 00:31:04 - A Tale of Drug Addiction and Prison Life 00:37:32 - Saving the Girl and Becoming a Bank Robber 00:44:15 - Operation Vanilla Bank Robbery 00:50:51 - The Car Trouble 00:57:28 - Evading Capture in a Vehicle Chase 01:03:55 - Floating Down the Hudson River 01:09:57 - On the Run 01:16:04 - Transferred to Albany County Jail 01:22:10 - The Escape from Prison 01:28:16 - Escaping Prison and Life After 01:34:21 - Moving on from the Amish Life 01:40:15 - Request for a publisher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And I really can't justify, you know, what I'm about to tell you, dude, because I had everything

0:04.5

going for me. But I just decided I would be a bank robber instead.

0:15.3

Welcome back to the Locked In with the NBIC podcast. On today's episode, we have Victor Shear. Guys, you are going to love

0:22.9

Victor Shear's story and you're going to love this episode. I think he's our first official

0:28.4

bank robber on the show and he brings the heat with this entertaining storytelling.

0:34.2

Before we get into today's episode, I got to ask you guys something, do you want to get

0:38.5

chef-prepared meals on the table in two minutes? We'll head over to factormeals.com slash

0:43.9

Lockedin 50 and use code locked in 50 to get 50% off your first order and 20% off your next

0:51.5

order after that. I want to give a huge shout out to Factor for not only being

0:57.5

our first official sponsor of Locked in last year, but for continuously supporting this show.

1:03.0

It means the absolute world. I love Factor. I love their brand. And I'm so excited to

1:08.7

continuously push them out in the Lockton with the NBick podcast. Victor, welcome to Lockton. You are our first Victor on the show. Thank you for having us. How's it feel? A lot of pressure? No. No. Victor stands for a while. Winter or something, so hopefully I can pull this off, I think. Does it, oh, Victor, like a Victor. Yeah, my father was in World War II, and they killed some Japanese, and a guy took the rice wine, and said, so go to the Spores War to the Victor. And that's stuck in my dad's head. So later when he came home from the war, that's how the name Victor comes from. And you also have an Indian name. Mad duck. Yeah, my dad is Mohawk. So my Christian name is Victor Shear. My Indian name is Mohawk. Did you grow up? I mean, I'm sorry, Mad Duck. Okay, Mad Duck. Yeah, my dad is Mohawk. Did you grow up practicing the Native American culture?

2:05.5

Not really, but I was, this is crazy, I was born in Schenectady, New York.

2:06.1

I've heard of that.

2:10.0

It's pronounced Schenecta-Hae, and it means Through the Pines.

2:15.1

And I bring that up, because there's actually a bank robin movie called Through the Pines.

2:19.4

And it's about a bank robber in Schenectady, New York, yeah.

2:21.2

But it doesn't happen to be about you.

2:22.2

No, no.

2:27.5

And then after that, I spent from zero to 16 in a place called Burr Hills, New York.

2:32.2

And so named because the Indians would burn the hills, the grass would come back.

2:33.7

That would attract the Indians. And then they, I mean, I'm sorry, that would attract the deer. And then the grass would come back. That would attract the Indians.

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