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Paper Ghosts: The Ozarks

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4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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From the team behind Paper Ghosts, WHITE EAGLE is a six-part true crime series about a 1983 heist where a 25-year-old armored truck driver from West Hartford, Connecticut, tied up his co-workers, stuffed more than $7 million into a Buick LaSabre, and disappeared into the night. At the time, it was one of the largest cash heists in U.S. history. But that was just the beginning.

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0:00.0	Somewhere tonight a Wells Fargo Guard and X Wells Fargo Guard is on the run with
0:05.7	$7 million in cash. On September 12th, 1983, 25-year-old Victor
0:12.7	Horene had pulled into the garage of a non-descript building in West Harford,
0:16.7	Connecticut and set off to work, picking up and delivering cash for an
0:21.7	armored car company. 12 hours later. Victor, you've done through your head, you're
0:27.3	writing them, he ain't got them, tied them up, put them on the floor.
0:30.6	The coats were then placed over their heads at which time,
0:34.3	Garena advised the men that he was going to give them a shot that would put
0:38.3	them to sleep. He packed about a thousand pounds of money into his
0:42.5	Buickless saber, an amount today equivalent to nearly 19.6 million dollars
0:48.4	and drove off into the night. The thief had so much money to steal from here
0:53.2	that he couldn't even haul it all away. Police estimate that he left about a
0:56.8	million dollars behind. At the time, it was one of the largest cash
1:01.6	heists in US history, but stealing the money was only the beginning. For some,
1:09.3	this is a story about a man who has been on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list
1:14.8	longer than anyone else, a man who has eluded federal authorities for nearly
1:19.8	40 years. I'm still running back my mind, we're gonna get to the sky. For others,
1:25.6	it's a story about a robbery that funded a revolution. This whole issue has
1:30.7	ignited a firestorm of controversy. What we want to know is why did the
1:35.0	President make this decision? My name is M. William Phelps. I'm an investigative
1:39.9	journalist and author of more than 42 crimes and the host of the narrative
1:44.9	podcast series Paper Ghosts. Join me as I dive deep into one of the most
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