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It was February 10, 1997, and the Lakewood, Washington, branch of the Seafirst bank had just closed. A well-dressed man in a trench coat and FBI cap used some excuse to get the teller to open the door. Once inside he put on sunglasses, pulled out a gun, and let in an accomplice, also wearing sunglasses and a trench coat.
They were extremely polite as they ushered the three women tellers into the vault and bound their hands with plastic handcuffs. The men began filling bags with money and taking the bags out to their car. Most of the bills they took were hundreds, fifties and twenties. The loot probably weighed around 100pounds because they made off with $4.5million dollars. A few hours later the tellers managed to free themselves and call 911, but by then the men had vanished.
The two, William Kirkpatrick of Hovland, Minnesota, and Ray Bowman of Kansas City, Missouri, might have gotten away with it if they had been as smart at handling money as they were at robbing banks.
Although his share was over $2 million, Bowman forgot to pay the $30 rent on his storage locker. When the manager opened up the storage space, he found guns, silencers, police radio scanners, and materials for creating disguises. He quickly called the police.
Just one month after the robbery, Kirkpatrick was stopped for speeding by a Nebraska state trooper. When the trooper searched the trunk of Kirkpatrick's car, he found guns and $1.8 million in cash.
If Bowman had paid his storage bill and Kirkpatrick had driven just a little bit slower, they might have been successful in getting away with the largest bank robbery in U.S. history.
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Sean Amos
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