I don't know about you, but when I think about the words armed robbery, I think of action

movies, scenes from films like Heat or The Dark Knight, where criminals and villains

are armed to the teeth, caught up in dramatic shootouts with police.

Larger than life characters who risk it all for potential big reward, sometimes that

reward comes and sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes the good guys catch the bad guys, sometimes they don't.

In reality, most armored truck robberies are much more subdued than what's portrayed

in films and TV.

While epic highs like the ones depicted on the big screen do happen in real life from

time to time, they are nowhere near as common as you might think.

More often than not, those kinds of incidents are the exception as opposed to the rule.

FBI agents we've consulted for this show have said that by and large, goal in an armored

truck robbery is to get away with the cash without being captured.

The quickest way to do that is to avoid drawing any suspicion to yourself for firing a weapon.

For the most part, armored truck robbers, especially if it's an inside job, try as often

as possible to choose the path of least resistance and evade capture by outsmarting authorities.

For the past 19 years, that strategy has worked for an unidentified armored truck robber who

in 2002 left FBI agents scratching their heads.

The robbery is a rare case that's puzzling because even if the suspect gets caught, they

may never be able to be charged with a crime.

This is armored.

The untold stories of murder, mayhem, and million dollar heists.

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