The 14-Year-Old Bank Robber | From Heavyweight

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.2 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

If you liked this past season of Deep Cover, The Family Man, you'll enjoy this episode from another Pushkin podcast, Heavyweight. It's a great companion to our bank robbery story from this season. Heavyweight, hosted by Jonathan Goldstein, creates space for difficult conversations and resolving long-standing regrets and unanswered questions. In this episode: A young man had just turned 14 when he took his father’s shotgun, skipped school, and robbed a bank for $40,000. Now, 33 years later, he wants to apologize to the people he harmed that day.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:08.7	Hey, it's Jake. I hope you enjoyed listening to this last season of Deep Cover.
0:14.1	And today, I'm back in the feed to bring you an episode of a great companion story to the family man.
0:21.0	It's an episode from Heavyweight, another Pushkin podcast,
0:25.6	about what happens when you get to go back to the unresolved moments of your past.
0:31.7	This episode follows the story of a 14-year-old kid who robbed a bank for $40,000 with his father's
0:40.1	sought-off shotgun. 33 years later, he talked with heavyweight's host Jonathan Goldstein
0:47.0	about apologizing to the people he harmed that fateful day. If you like the episode,
0:56.3	listen to Heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. Here's Jonathan with the story.
1:02.5	How's it going? Dr. Jackie Cohen? Yeah. How about this? Jackie Cohen, Dr. Jackie Cohen. So,
1:09.8	okay, so now that I am officially in my late 50s, what do you think I could do to start improving my health? Yeah, you can build up that little noodle body of yours, get some meatballs on the spaghetti. Yes, yes. Oh, you're laughing. Is that a medical term? Why aren't you doing any weightlifting? Because I don't live near a gym. You don't have to be near a gym.
1:28.0	Let's do something at home.
1:29.2	Like where I just go around the house and I, like, lift a couch or try to pull a toilet out or something.
1:36.5	Yeah, that.
1:43.7	From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and this is heavyweight.
1:50.2	Today's episode, The Bank Robber.
1:56.5	Right after the break.
2:08.5	This is an I-Heart podcast.
2:14.5	Thanks for listening to Deep Cover, The Family Man.
2:18.6	Listen to and follow Deep Cover on Amazon Music or just ask Alexa play the podcast deep cover on amazon music also with amazon music unlimited
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2:31.7	hello hello how are you hi good how are you doing really well in the Amazon Music app. Hello.
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