My Oldest, Dearest Friend
Deep Cover
Pushkin Industries
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Mike Walton was shocked to learn his lifelong friend, Keith, had been living a double life as the Boonie Hat Bandit. He’d seen reports about the serial bank robber on the news, but never recognized him. Jake speaks with Mike about their friendship and why, sometimes, it’s hard to see the thing right in front of you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. If you like your true crime, like you like your |
| 0:06.5 | coffee, Red Handed is the podcast for you. It's dark, intense and might just keep you up all night. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Hannah. I'm Surruti. And every week on Red Handed, we break down a different, fascinating case. |
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| 1:00.0 | Hey, everybody, it's Jake. |
| 1:02.7 | When we're making these shows, we talk to a lot of people, |
| 1:06.7 | but we can't always include everyone's voices or everything they said. |
| 1:11.7 | So what you're about to hear is a conversation that did not make our regular season, |
| 1:17.0 | but which really gave me a lot of insight into Keith Giamonko, both as a man and as the boy he |
| 1:23.7 | once was. Because this is a conversation with one of Keith's childhood buddies. In fact, |
| 1:30.4 | Keith introduced him to me as my oldest, dearest friend, a man named Mike Walton. Mike and Keith grew up |
| 1:39.3 | together in Florissant, Missouri. They ran around with the other neighborhood kids, getting into various |
| 1:44.9 | shenanigans. Later on, as adults, they ended up living very close to one another. Mike lived just |
| 1:51.4 | as stones throw away from the house that the police raided the night that Keith was arrested. |
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