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John Stanley Joseph Wojtowicz (/ v ɔɪ ˈ t oʊ v ɪ tʃ /, voy-TOE-vitch; [1] March 9, 1945 – January 2, 2006) was an American bank robber whose story inspired the film Dog Day Afternoon. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Elizabeth Debbie Eden (born August 19, 1946 – September 29, 1987) was an American transgender woman whose husband, John Wojtowicz, attempted a bank robbery, allegedly to pay for her sex reassignment surgery.
The Dog (also known as Storyville: The Great Sex Addict Heist [1] [2]) is a 2013 documentary film co-written and co-directed by Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren, about the real-life story of bisexual bank robber John Wojtowicz that inspired the 1975 Al Pacino movie Dog Day Afternoon about his August 1972 attempted heist and 14-hour televised hostage situation in Brooklyn to pay for his lover's ...
A top government watchdog raised concerns Tuesday over the handling of leak investigations during the first Trump administration that targeted members of Congress and the media despite finding no ...
An investigation that began in April by the PCSO criminal investigations division ended Monday with search warrants at two locations, which yielded a significant number of reported stolen items ...
Police said a large quantity of Blue John was recovered from an address in Greater Manchester on Tuesday night following a report of theft in Castleton, Derbyshire, on 13 October.
On August 22, 1972, John Wojtowicz, Salvatore Naturile and Robert Westenberg attempted to rob a branch of the Chase Manhattan Bank at 450 Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The robbers aimed to take the US$150,000–$200,000 (equivalent to $1.5 million in 2023) that they expected to be delivered at 3:30 p.m. that afternoon by an ...
10 Rillington Place (1971) – British crime drama film dramatizing the case of British serial killer John Christie, who committed many of his crimes in the titular London terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving his neighbour Timothy Evans [39]