Bank Robbery a Fading Vocation In Internet Age: A Look Back at the Greats
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow skipped from bank robbery to bank robbery in America's heartland, becoming media sensations for their daring crimes and heart-throbbing love story.
But all this came to a terrible halt in 1934 when an ambush stopped them dead in their tracks, decisively ending both their criminal careers and their young lives in a scene so gruesome that the photos cemented their untimely end into American history forever.
See the chilling photos and go inside the fascinating true story of America’s most infamous outlaw couple — by clicking the link in our bio.
March 27, 2014 -- intro: What's the career outlook for bank robbery? Not good, if you mean the classic hands-on heists perfected by "Pretty Boy" Floyd, John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson or Bonnie and Clyde.
In the digital age, says the FBI, fewer and fewer guys (and dolls) are bursting into banks with tommy guns, yelling, "Reach!" and cleaning out the cash drawer. More often they are sitting at home in their pajamas, robbing banks online.
FBI statistics show that the overall number of hands-on bank jobs dropped almost 18 percent between 2010 and 2011, the last year for which data is available.
The most popular time for robbing banks is 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., according to FBI statistics, followed by 3 p.m. to 6pm. The preferred day for robbery is Friday.
Former special agent Jerry Clark, now an assistant professor of criminology at Pennsylvania's Gannon University, tells ABC News that Friday is popular because it's payday--when the most money is deposited. The average amount of loot taken per bank robbery has been holding steady for several years at about $4,000.
Clark describes the 1930s as the great age of holdups, where robbers could—and did—become folk heroes. Guys like Baby Face Nelson, he says, robbed banks because, when nobody else had money, banks did. Thanks to primitive bank security systems and short-handed rural law enforcement, a robber could ply his (or in the case of Bonnie Parker, her) trade for years without getting caught.
Patty Hearst was the granddaughter of storied publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Kidnapped in 1974 by a group of Berkeley radicals known as the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army), she was brainwashed, she said, into participating in the SLA's criminal activities, which included bank robbery. She eventually was captured by the FBI, tried by a jury, sentence to seven years in prison. She served two years before being pardoned by President Carter.
Before being killed by FBI agents in a 1934 shoot out, Baby Face Nelson (born Lester M. Gillis) robbed a variety of banks, including the Merchants National Bank of South Bend, Ind. For a brief time, he was part of the John Dillinger gang and vacationed with Dillinger at the Little Bohemia Lodge in northern Wisconsin
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