This is the American Greet Podcast, presented by CNBC. I'm Stacey Keach.

In this episode of American Greet,

fugitive Jason Derrick Brown is a Mormon missionary-turned-party king

from ski trips on the boat to nights out at the bars, to motorcycling and ATVing in the desert.

He wanted to be the life of the party.

Jason's playboy life is bankrolled by a series of scams.

But when money gets tight, he plots his most elaborate scheme yet.

When people are in desperate situations, they do desperate things.

Oh, this guy, I mean, he's just too tall.

Man, we gotta get in there with this guy.

He was down that alley on his bicycle and long gone.

He's a ghost after that.

It's the morning of November 29th, 2004, in Phoenix, Arizona.

A Dunbar armored car is making the rounds in a Tony section of town called Awa Tukki.

The truck's driver, James Duncan, has been on the job for just three weeks.

He relies on his partner, Robert Keat Palamaris, to show him the ropes.

It was my first time on that route, first time I had met him.

I didn't know the area, so he'd be like, turn left here, turn right there.

Let's go around here, parked at a vehicle here.

Palamaris is the hopper, the employee who hops off the truck and collects deposits from the stores and restaurants.

We just talked in the whole way about everything that we both had going on in our lives.

He was from Southern California, he was about the same age as me, and he just really seemed like a really nice guy.

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