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Jeffrey E. Erickson (1958–1992) and Jill Sandra Erickson (née Cohen; 1964–1991) were an American married criminal couple from Illinois known for committing a series of violent bank robberies. The Ericksons are believed to have committed eight bank robberies in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1990 and 1991.
1988-05-20: 2: Mentally ill woman shot eight-year-old boy at elementary school and then committed suicide [21] Jeffrey and Jill Erickson: Chicago: 4: Bank robber killed a marshall and a police detective, then committed suicide [22] [23] Michael Alfonso: 1992, 2001: 2: Committed two murders, listed on FBI's Ten Most Wanted list: Brown's Chicken ...
[8] [9] It was documented as “Biggest Bank Robbery” under “Curiosities and wonders” in Limca Book of Records. [10] [11] [12] The Chicago Sun-Times reported that "12 to 15 Sikhs dressed as policemen and armed with submachine guns and rifles escaped with nearly $4.5 million in the biggest bank robbery in Indian history." "No one was injured."
“Heist 88,” a new Showtime release inspired by a real-life Chicago robbery from the year 1988, doesn’t trust … Bank robbers tend to be fairly easy to root for in movies. After all, it’s ...
On one visit he tied and gagged his lawyer and escaped. He was arrested June 1, 1988, in Lantana, Florida, after being featured on America's Most Wanted. He was recognized by a co-worker who called in. He was the leader of Chicago's "Little Mafia" gang. Roger Lee Jones #419 May 29, 1988 One year
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November 6, 1930 – Forty-two-Gang member at the time and soon to be Outfit rising star Sam "Teets" Battaglia and two other thugs executed a brazenly stunning armed jewelry robbery on the, then, mayor of Chicago's wife, Mary Walker "Maysie" Thompson, as she walked into her apartment. The crooks ran off with $15,000 in Thompson's jewelry and ...
The Stockholm syndrome — initially dubbed “Norrmalmstorg syndrome,” after the square where the bank heist took place — has since been used in connection with hostage-takings around the ...