S5 Ep14: Breach of Trust: Inside the Legendary Loomis Fargo Heist

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

One Sunday morning in 1997, a security guard noticed the front fence at Loomis Fargo in Charlotte, North Carolina, was ajar. So was the warehouse door. And the vault inside was fitted with a suspicious time lock. When authorities finally opened the vault the next day, they found it completely empty, the target of one of the largest cash thefts in US history. The manhunt that followed would grip the nation as authorities raced to track down the inside man who they believed vanished with millions.

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking, they change laws, change society, or even
0:12.4	earn the label Crime of the Century. But the stories that made headlines and decades past
0:18.9	aren't necessarily remembered today.
0:22.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show,
0:26.8	I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
0:33.9	This is Crimes of the Centuries.
0:46.3	Thank you. This is Crimes of the Centuries. The hard part was over.
0:49.3	More than a ton of money had been successfully taken from the safekeeping of the Charlotte, North Carolina,
0:55.7	Loomis Fargo Vault by a single, tall, slightly scrawny man in a theft that had taken just over an
1:02.3	hour to complete. It was October 4, 1997, in a time before texting. If you wanted the attention
1:09.9	of someone back then,
1:10.9	you could buzz their beeper with your number or some pre-arranged code.
1:16.0	That code thing was something Kelly Campbell had done repeatedly
1:19.8	to bolster the confidence of the one thief in the Loomis facility.
1:25.3	Despite appearances that would suggest otherwise, David Gant had pulled off the
1:30.0	physical part of the heist himself. The cameras that had witnessed it were just videotaping,
1:36.1	not live streaming for anyone to watch in real time, and he would take care of them. Kelly and her
1:42.4	gangster friend, plus a few extra people he hadn't expected,
1:46.4	were on hand at the pre-arranged rendezvous point and unpacked the money-laden white van he had
1:51.9	loaded. Their job was to hide the pallets of cash until the dust settled. But his part was done.
2:01.3	David was in a hurry.
2:03.3	He handed these men his Loomis Keys, and he and Kelly, the fresh love of his life, were driving
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