Bank robbers Bank robbers Albert Spaggiari ( December 14, 1932 – June 8, 1989), nicknamed Bert by his friends, was a French criminal and far-right activist chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Société Générale bank in Nice, France in 1976. Involved with the terrorist Organisation de l'Armée Secrète, he also worked for the Chilean DINA, participating in operation Condor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Spaggiari"
Alvin Karpis ( August 10, 1907- August 26, 1979, born Alvin Karpowicz), nickname "Creepy" , was a noted criminal in the United States known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last "Public Enemy Number 1" to be taken, a capture which elevated J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to national prominence. His stay at Alcatraz, a little over 25 years, was longer than any other inmate interned there. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alvin Karpis"
André Stander was a police Captain in the robbery and homicide division of the police in Johannesburg, South Africa who began robbing banks in the 1970s. His dad, Frans Stander, was a general in the South African Police and head of the police dogschool in Pretoria. The sheer brazeness of his crimes is legendary: he would sometimes rob banks on his lunch hour, and he would often return to the scene of the crime as an investigating officer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andre Stander"
Attila Ambrus (born October 6 1967) is notorious for committing a string of robberies in Hungary. He was born in a Szekely Hungarian family in Fitód ( Fitud), a small village in Western Transylvania, Romania, right outside Csíkszereda ( Miercurea Ciuc). ...more on Wikipedia about "Attila Ambrus"
Lester J. Gillis ( December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934), also known as George Nelson but better known as Baby Face Nelson due to his youthful appearance, was a diminutive (5' 4" tall) bank robber during the 1930s. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA and worked for a time as an enforcer for Chicago gangster Al Capone. Nelson came to greater prominence in 1934, when he joined the Dillinger gang. In contrast to the dashing John Dillinger, Nelson was the antithesis of popular, Robin Hood-like gangsters of the Depression era. Having a psychopathic bent, Nelson did not hesitate to kill innocent bystanders. Paradoxically, though, Nelson was a devoted husband and father who often had his wife and children with him while running from the law. After the death of John Dillinger in July 1934, Nelson became Public Enemy Number One. Nelson was said to boast of robbing one bank a day for a month, in order to out do Dillinger, but this never happened. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baby Face Nelson"
Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. It is usually accomplished by a solitary criminal who brandishes a firearm at a teller and demands money, either orally or through a written note. The most dangerous type of bank robbery is a takeover robbery in which several heavily armed (and armored) gang members threaten the lives of everyone present in the bank. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bank robbery"
William "Bill" Doolin ( 1858–August 1896) was an American bandit and founder of the Wild Bunch, an outlaw gang that specialized in robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas during the 1890s. Doolin, born near Clarksville, Arkansas, was originally a member of the Dalton Gang, until forming his own in 1893. The Wild Bunch were the most powerful outlaw group in the West until Doolin was captured in a Eureka Springs bathhouse in early 1896; Doolin escaped on July 5 of that year, but was killed by deputy U.S. Marshall Heck Thomas in an ambush in the next month. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill Doolin" It's my www.shortopedia.com!
Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow) were infamous bank robbers and murderers who traveled the central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits, along with those of other criminals of the time such as John Dillinger and Ma Barker, were notorious across the nation. They captivated the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as The public enemy era between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the FBI. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bonnie and Clyde"
The Bonnot Gang was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium from 1911 to 1912. Comprised of individuals who identified with the emerging illegalist mileu, the gang utilized cutting-edge technology (including automobiles and repeating rifles) not yet available to the French police. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bonnot gang"
Brendan James Abbott (born 8 May 1962) in Footscray, Melbourne. An infamous Australian bank robber. During his criminal career he is believed to have stolen as much as $5 million from a number of banks, though very little of this money has ever been recovered. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brendan Abbott"
George "Bugs" Moran ( 1893 – February 25, 1957) was a Chicago Prohibition-era gangster. Born to French-Canadian immigrants in ...more on Wikipedia about "Bugs Moran"
Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, born on 13 April 1866 in Beaver, Utah, was a notorious train and bank robber. ...more on Wikipedia about "Butch Cassidy"
Candice Rose Martinez, a.k.a. the "Cell Phone Bandit," committed four bank robberies in Northern Virginia, U.S.A., in October and November of 2005, when she was a 19-year-old Northern Virginia Community College student. She was given the "Cell Phone Bandit" nickname by the media because she spoke on her mobile phone while commiting the robberies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Candice Rose Martinez"
Dan Kelly ( 1861 - 28th June 1880) was the youngest brother of Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly. He was a member of the Kelly Gang and was killed at the siege at Glenrowan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dan Kelly (bushranger)"
David Aleksander Toska (born September 18th, 1975) is the alleged " mastermind" behind the so-called " NOKAS robbery" in Stavanger on April 5th, 2004, one of the most profiled criminal cases in modern Norwegian history. The robbery resulted in the death of a policeman, a very rare occurrence in Norway. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Toska"
Gregory David Roberts, born Gregory John Peter Smith, is a convicted armed robber, former heroin addict and author of the bestselling book Shantaram. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gregory David Roberts"
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh ( 1867 - c. November 1908), sometimes spelled Longbaugh, also known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, in the American Wild West. Legend states that he was a wizard with a gun. It is generally believed that Butch and Sundance were killed by soldiers in Bolivia in November 1908, but there is some evidence to suggest that they returned to the United States, with Sundance dying in 1936. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harry Longabaugh"
Harvey Bailey, called "The Dean of American Bank Robbers", had a long and successful criminal career, having begun in 1918 when he started running whiskey along the Missouri River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harvey Bailey"
The Ioanid Gang was a group in Communist Romania named after two of its leaders, Alexandru and Paul Ioanids. In 1959 they allegedly organized the most famous bank robbery in any Communist state. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ioanid Gang"
Ivan Grose (born October 8, 1928 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman and politician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ivan Grose"
J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree ( 1912- October 12, 2004), an American criminal, is believed to be the world's oldest active bank robber. On August 12, 2003, Rountree walked into the First American Bank in Abilene, Texas, to hand a large envelope to the teller marked "robbery." Moments later, Rountree sped off in a 1996 Buick Regal with $2,000.00 in small bills. He was arrested shortly thereafter when a witness wrote down his license number. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. L. Hunter "Red" Rountree"
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Jackie Arklöv (born June 6, 1973) is a Swedish major criminal and police killer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jackie Arklöv"
On December 14 1984, Jay Wesley Neill, 19, and Robert Grady Johnson, 21, committed a bank robbery in Geronimo, Oklahoma that resulted in 5 murders and 3 attempted murders. Neill was executed on December 12 2002 and Johnson is serving a life sentence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jay Wesley Neill"
Joe Byrne ( 1857 - June 28 1880) was an Australian bushranger known as the lieutenant of the Kelly Gang. He died in the siege of Glenrowan which is one of the most famous events in Australian history. Joe Byrne was a crack shot, a good horseman and a skilled bushman that enabled him to escape capture for several years. His skill at writing enabled him to produce material that added significantly to the development of the Kelly legend, notably the Jerilderie letter. There is also a legend that Ned Kelly, with Byrne's assistance, was planning to declare a Republic of North-Eastern Victoria at the time of the siege of Glenrowan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe Byrne"
John Ausonius (born Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg on July 12, 1953), also known in the media as Lasermannen ("the Laser Man") is a Swedish convicted murderer, bank robber, and attempted serial killer. From August 1991 to February 1992 he shot eleven people, all of whom were immigrants, and killed one in the Stockholm and Uppsala area. He first used a rifle equipped with a laser sight - hence his nickname - and later switched to a revolver. He was arrested in June 1992 and sentenced to life in prison. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Ausonius"
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