Repeat Bank Robber Disguises Himself For 4 Years | The FBI Files | Retold
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- Bank robbers amass a fortune during a four-year crime spree in Seattle that became increasingly violent over time.
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Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., who played the role of inspector Carl Erskine in "The FBI Story" had a vacation home adjacent to me in the Sierra. He passed away about 2014. He told me how J.Edgar Hoover used to call him weekly to remind Efrem to depict the FBI in a positive light. Even during the 60's and 70's when the show played on Sunday evening...the FBI was notorious a bungling and increasingly political organization.
Ohhh What nostalgia! Sooo touching.. thank heavens for the multitude of changes and new modern scientific resources have turned the FBI into a new dynamic judicial force able to be effective and efficient against current USA domestic terrorist groups; as well as daily interstate crimes like kidnapping, bank robbery and modern slavery.
Meanwhile Hoover was a real piece of work. He never should have been in that position.
Like it is today, leftist ideology
For real. I tipped off the DC headquarters about Trump's FASCIST CULT members plotting their coup attempt online with links, screenshots, the whole works with a bow on it TWO WEEKS before they were going to try and end democracy. THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT.
Efrem Zimbalist was cool though.
Most criminals are pretty stupid this one wasn't. But if he was really smart he would have taken the money left the country and lived in luxury the rest of his life. Greed and/or his addiction to adrenaline led to his downfall.
I wondered why he kept robbing banks; there was $1 million in the van they were captured in. How did Hollywood get from North Seattle to South Seattle camper? Aedin
Bull fighter was already a millionaire in Mexico before a bull finally killed him. Some don't learn to quit while ahead and luck isn't going to last as long as they think.
@@hydrolito just because you have a million doesn't mean you can keep a million without more coming in. Ever heard of prior with more than $1 million going broke? Happens on a regular basis. If you get a million dollars and think you can just love the good life without making more money somehow I'll see again when you're broke as hell.
They didn't want to glamorize him but they named him Hollywood! lol
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😂😂. What a joke!!!!!😮😮😮😮😮
Hollywood and Vine were what to female wrestlers called themselves they are lucky they were not sued.
If somebody walked into the bank looking like that I think I would crack up🤣. Needless to say I would be shot on the spot.
Should have quit while he was ahead, but it's like a temptation you can't give up.
@roberthuot7887, Or better yet, He should have walked into the police station and given himself up; He'd probably be alive today. He could write a book and make more money than robbing banks.
Hello !
In my country the employees are protected by bulletproof glass : they work in a bulletproof aquarium. Robbing a bank or a post office is a suicidal mission.
Phil, Belgium. Peace.
Dear Philippe Gilson: Links and data, please.
@@eddyvideostar Dude, do your own research if it's so important to you
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@@rcpmac: This will gain importance to everyone if more data is derived and delivered.
I suspect he's not capable of doing his own research.
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Scott looks kind of like David Copperfield the magician! Pretty good episode! Mask, makeup room, tree lookouts!
Do they give IQ tests for law enforcement? How can a car full of armed law enforcement officers not have enough collective intelligence to shoot the tires of the escape vehicle?
My thoughts exactly.
Because you don't want to apprehant the tires but the offenders.
Because guns aren’t as useful in a car chase as a cruiser, you watch too many movies, if one bullet ricochets off the road and hurts someone they’re screwed. Police only have a 20% target rate in a moving chase using guns so they don’t do it. Accuracy is significantly reduced in a fluid motion situation. In this situation I’d say the police used the most IQ available in gun science and public safety by only shooting at the gunmen.
The tire only rolls when the vehicle accelerates, which takes place when the driver presses on the pedal.
In other words, a tire didn't roll on its own will, meaning the wheel object was an unwilling participant in the getaway. In the eyes of the law, if the robber got terminally ill from police shooting the wheel, the defendant can argue that an innocent party (the wheel) was struck by the law.
Silly, don't you know the first thing Hollywood did was buy new tires, bulletproof tires.
I don't have a criminal mind, but all these clips of the getaway car backing out of a parking spot. SERIOUSLY?
In all those robberies not one person was armed to stop the robber, What a joke.
Cash has insurance so big deal
So after watching and impressing the Miami shootout, three officers with no body armor and only handguns engaged in the initial firefight with the van, not knowing who or how many people were in the van and what type of weapons they may have. I don’t know that the video of the Miami incident sunk in much at all.
My opinion, FBI was ill trained. They were more accountants than than law officers. They didn't even have armor vests or rifles.
I saw the same thing, now i know this is a staged for vidio scene, but IF the FBI does indeed follow this line of thought, no wonder the bad guys win for a while.
The seed of greed brings them down every time. Scurlock had a nice home with good additions on a sizable property, a big garage and a fantastic 3 story tree house. If he would have been satisfied after that quarter of a million haul he probably never would have been caught. "Oh Scurlock you Hollywood, all your treasure has turned to wormwood. Your wealth is nothing but mud and from a hole in your head seeps blood."
Lol, quiet the poet!
Or the rush of the hunt…
It is a good thing to see that the criminals can catch criminals when they are not one of their own. Now if we could find out how much of the "found" money was pocketed before it was reported.
Years back got lifted and jailed for 5 kees of B but on arrest we also had 5 of Charlie. But the C disappeared . We didn’t complain although we knew exactly which boys in uniform took them.
Loooll! omg
Sad but true . No doubt .
Alot of Cops are in it for all the unknown freebies...
I really appreciate this video.
Intelligent job is my dream
He must have entered some or all of these banks prior to the actual robbery.
I'm surprised the Mayor and city council of Seattle haven't decriminalized bank robbery
Lmao right
For politicians and CEOs it is. They get away with murder practically.
Next year
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And I'm surprised that riech-wingers aren't considered the biggest terrorist threat to America.
Oh wait, nevermind. They are.
I read a book by Ann Rule, a crime writer, about this story. It included a complete backstory about Scott Scurlock, where he lived, his family lived, etc. Very detailed, and a good read, not sure about the title though.
The end of the dream
Yes, I read that story by Rule also. The title of her book was "The End of the Dream," as honiballist let us know in their comment, and what a good read it was. It told of his life growing up in Hawaii, and also went into a little detail about these extravagant tree houses that Scurlock built in the northwest. He was a man of many talents, unfortunately, one of them was not getting money in a legal way. Before he was the serial bank robber he had become, he apparently was involved in the meth amphetamine business, until he was almost killed by some tweaked out people that you inevitably get caught up with in that business.
@@petermosherthepoet he could have been a successful business man but dang
@@eyeswideopen7777 He probably couldn't do business legally where you have to navigate personalities, politicians, and regulations. He had to know they were going to get caught eventually. They would have been better off hitting banks in other locations but they would have had to completely change their MO.
@@almorris171 hey but he got greedy..doing it so many times
I can imagine him thinking is plans through: "Okay, okay. Let's see. Hmmmm....Step 1: build a tree fort."
Now, we all have complete confidence in the FBI, right?
Of course, they will do the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens beckoning with a mere phone call, with no questions worries, or qualms. Just taking care of business the good ole American way. lol :)
39:22 assault rifle looks like an M14, used one in the USMC in 1973, Greed was their down Fall, (adrenalin rush maybe)
Marine-did you like the 14 better than the 16?....
In Italian banks. you enter a room where the door locks behind you and tellers are behind bulletproof glass.
No surprise!
That's too obvious a deterent.
That's where it's headed. In North America, Jewellery stores are already in and convenience stores can't be far behind...
@@badad0166: And into supermarkets where law-abiding angst adds -- as the language barrier frustrates: Balk to buy: bad business They just teef off the bread and depart.
Keep in mind this was 25 years ago.
Looks like it was easy to be a bank robber those days.
And quite lucrative. The police had not yet acquired the letters "P" and "O" in their tittle but had all the rest.
When you get a taste of money!! Boy!! Do you want more!! Then Greed gets the best of you and it’s game over! Lol
Love
preach it Kon the Don!!!
Except the politicians can do it lawfully, not morally but yes lawfully and with tax payers money. Then get benefits for entire life for themselves and their families.
It wasn't greed, he just wanted to build that magnificent tree house. following his passion more like it. glad he's dead. at least he wasn't buying drugs with that money.
Kon The Don: I know the feeling of some of my coworkers. They would kill reputations to cover their own sordid schemes. The seraphs would struggle to secure theirs.
What year this documentary done?
The criminal always returns to the scene of the crime... this is so true, the restaurant next to my shop was BROKEN INTO the SAME WAY 3 times in ONE WEEK.
Not true
They had two sketches, did they compare them to photos of Seattle police?
@33:00 "the rifle jammed,agents fired into rear of van... tt turned into a firefight" Shots fired only from agents does not make it a "firefight"
The "assault rifle" appears to be an M1A which is a battle rifle.
Had me till about 35:00 it hits me. These HIGHLY trained professionals with decades of experience approach a STOPPED van 2 or 3 times, get shot at a lot, and never think to shoot out the tires. No.But it teaches a vital lesson. QUIT while you are ahead.
It's reenactment but that shotgun should have already been deployed. Some of the firearm restrictions such as carrying long guns in the trunk gets officers killed. Those rules change from place to place I suppose. In 1969 the CHP carried a riot shotgun clipped about the driver's side door. We ran out of gas and they gave us a ride. Maybe it was cause we were in the Navy but they were nice guys, not hardasses.
Now suppose a cop shoots out a suspects tires and he loses control of the car killing you. Are you ok with that? If your family won't sure over you being dead let's go ahead and make it law that police can discharge weapons however necessary as long as only YOU are in the vicinity 🤷🏿♂️
I believe that shooting out tires etc. is pure Hollywood. How many high speed chases have we seen here on Y.T. were these criminals are driving on the bare rims and still running.
@@Yarrb53 shooting tires is per Hollywood fiction because the last thing police want is the responsibility of having an innocent bystander run over by an out of control vehicle after they shoot out the tires. Can you imagine the lawsuits they'd have to pay out?
Because the tires were new, they wouldn't want to be sued for destroying new private property
The pistol they called a Glock was really a Ruger.
I recognized one of the actors playing the FBI agent. He played Len Davis in the episode about the corrupt New Orleans cops.
Yes you are right! didn't catch that first time i saw the vid.
I have only one question, in a case like this one, do the police not shoot the tires out in an on going shoot out. This would ensure the vehicle would be unable to make a clean get away. Those 3 original FBI personnel are one brave bunch, koodoes
Same with police chases they stop the guy then he decides to drive off, the cop is right next to the tires with nobody around they have time to shoot out the tires but jumps into his patrol car to go after the bad guy!
I think it's either paperwork for discharging a weapon or they are told not to. I see it all of the time in real chases.
Do they shoot the tires? No. Do they have a shoot out in a residential neighborhood? Yes. Screw the innocent civilians
That was my thought. Shoot the tires so they can't get away. No, they let them go. I also wondered about innocent people in a neighborhood getting hit in crossfire, but the criminals did shoot first. Hopefully people had brains enough to stay inside away from windows.
“Shoot out tires,” lol. You watch too many cop movies. Have you ever operated a fire arm?
Used to binge watch this show and today I get to see and hear the intro and extro tune.
Sometimes You Need Too Know When To “Stop!”😮 Cause Eventually Your Gonna Get “Caught!”😂
What a bunch of clowns the cops they don't even had a clue how to catch the same bank rober and how workers are going to hit the alarm and afraid if ya can't even catch him train those cops better 😒
So did you catch any criminals lately? Did you offer to train those officers?
I guess he was spending all that cash on his tree house and his property. So refreshing to have a story where the cash wasn't being used to buy drugs .
Mmmm, Scurlock paid for the work on this property by manufacturing meth and wholesaling it throughout the '80s (he also used the meth some too). When his main distributor got killed, Scurlock decided to get out of that business and came up with bank robbery gig. Wikipedia article about him.
@@SansNeural oh i had no idea , me dumb
@@johngillon6969 Nah, not dumb. Might read the wiki page on him. Kinda interesting.
He built a workshop in his garage.
What a mastermind 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 i am totally impressed 😇👌🏼 nicely played 😁🤘🏻✌🏼
Alas. as they say "too bad he couldn't use his evil genius for good.
@@johngillon6969 yeah... How great it must have been 👍🏼
@@HUNTERHUNTER806 you are bo cool.,
@@johngillon6969 😅
1:08 Those Ferengi ear lobes are way ahead of their time!
See, you can do something with a theater major!
The Reagan mask was a nice touch.
Weeelll, there you go Again !
Wow! Very interesting, thank God all officers are save.
Don’t be a boot lickers 😮
licj them boots good, you might get your white card!
very sad greed overtook them, I would have retired with the stolen 1.2 million and go fishing everyday!
Greedy heart dictates for easy and quick money through dishonesty that results in shame and tragedy; honest heart dictates for hard-work and perseverance with pride, that may not usually offer abundance, but will lead to a satisfying and peaceful life.
Gotta say with all respect... Ellen's a FOX!
And good job, everybody! Glad that no one except bad guys got hurt.
damn this guy is way better than the indian call centers
Narrator:
“As the detectives approached the vehicle, they saw a bumper sticker that read “my honor student is a bank robber” and a license plate that read “HOLYWOD” at which point the investigators decided the vehicle could belong to anyone”.
That is called over playing your hand.. It was just a matter of time..The trick is never play your game to long.. He did and he paid...
Those were the days when the FBI focussed on the job and not political opponents
Yep, the FBI acts more like KGB agents silencing dissidents now days. Stalin would be proud of our modern FBI.
If political opponents are criminals who steal classified documents and take them home, then it's the FBI's job to go after those criminals or criminal.
That is not Party approved Correct Speech and Allowed Thinking about our glorious, revolutionary, Federal Bureau of Intimidation.
Yes, they chased criminals instead of parents at school board meetings.
Ha
After watching many episodes of the FBI files and Real Responders, I realise that there are repeat actors for the reenactments. A dirty cop in one of the episodes is now an FBI agent.
All things considered, he did very well, and, without being negative about the abilities of the FBI, the agency seemed largely to benefit from a lucky turn of events (spotting the van) due to someone pushing the envelope *much* further than wisdom should have allowed. You have to wonder as to why anyone would keep doing the same thing, in the same area, for so long! That said, I suppose, in his position, it would be hard to choose the moment to stop. Personally, I reckon after $1m in 90s cash, I think I would say to myself "well done, but I think I'll find a new hobby".
Why didn’t they shoot the tires? One cop in a team should always have that job first up. Stupid not firing into tires.
Too risky
It's funny how we put our lives on the line for paper
Seeing how big tech billionaires control the masses, I see why people are so greedy to obtain that kind of power over their fellow man.
He hated a boring life with no intense emotions
@24:44 Geraldo Riviera???
The police got there late because they were harassing a man with a camera filming inside a post office, along with four other police cars. CHECK 1ST AMMENDMENT FAILS.
The FBI taskforce spent more money to catch Hollywood than the money Hollywood had stolen from the banks. That's called stellar police work. 😭🤣
"you see, it was when I realized I was of exactly average height, I asked myself 'what could I do with that?'"
You could play an average person in a movie but get competition from all the other average people.
Ah well… They never know when to stop before getting caught.
I love it when they portray "the Cops", arriving. Using Sirens, at full-volume..!
Turn it down a notch ! I have a Baby and Dogs and a Wife, sleeping ...! They were.
3:15 - - - - "........Because no alarm has been tripped, therefore the security cameras in the bank would not be activated . . . " . That's what the narrator said. I really cannot believe that the bank has installed such a stupid security camera system.
Well you are typing your response in 2022, when did this crime took place? I cannot believe you are comparing todays technology with the technology of those days. Come on use critical thinking before uttering nonsense like this.
@@skaiidawg - - - The narrator mentioned that the robberies took place in 1992, Seattle, nearly 20 years ago. You mean to say such technologies were lacking in the United States in 1992, security cameras were not able to run 24/7 on their own and only able to start recording upon being tripped by the alarm in those days ?? Mind you, we are talking about the bank's security system in the US, not China. Even the bank I worked in in 1992, the security cameras were rolling non stop the whole day.
@@raymondlow393 30 YEARS AGO
@@fib4923 - - - Oops ! yes, I'm sorry, it's 30 years and not 20, thanks for bringing this up. Even then, security cameras were already long able to roll all by themselves without the need to be triggered by any other electrical gadgets.
It's what gets a lot of them GREED.... LMFAO
Excellent storytelling!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Investigators found a semi automatic 9mm Glock... Low budget production shows a Ruger decocker, lol.
How did the robbers know the car outside when they just got the key from someone on the floor inside???🙄🙄🙄🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
It was mentioned (on the first reenactment) @2:45 that they'd watched from outside and noted which customer had the car they wanted.
rank incompetence from fbi on an epic scale
20 acre ranch? Just wanted that kind of thrill 😢
great job all, got them all.
So bank cameras only activates when security alarms activated? Lol...
Sad story.
This story is stupid. After people in van were shooting at the police & they were on foot looking for him, the narrator says "police believed he was armed". Did they forget he had a 9mm in all the photos & had been shooting at them? LAME
Smh
cant believe all them shots fired and the tyres of the van were still up...
It's interesting going back and rewatching these from years ago when you learn that most of forensics shown on these types of shows has later been debunked and no longer admitted in court.
That's very interesting. I didn't know that. Could you give an example?
Not true. Forensics solves crime.
Thank you very much, That's exactly what I was thinking through much of it. The special "expertise" the FBI always claimed was mostly BS.
I want the treehouse. Everything else, forget about it. Ok, maybe the girl, but that's it, no more...
"Because no alarm had been tripped, the bank's security cameras were not activated." SMH, what's the point of having security cameras if they are not operating 24/7?
I agree. Also what happened to the thing called Silent Alarm ?
Those were the same camera's they used in Epstein's jail cell !
Why can't the cameramen keep the cameras steady ? Even during the warzone ,
skilled cameramen managed to keep them steady.
Is this supposed to be some hidden skills we don't know of ?
It's a film style. It's very likely that it was shot conventionally (nice and steady), and then the hand-held, shaky effect was added in editing. That's how it's done these days. I think it's stupid and incorrigible only plays to and promotes an ADD/ADHD mindset.
A shaky video gives the impression of having been shot directly from the field of action, rather than a staged one !
Jeez I wonder where he got the money to buy a 20 acre ranch'/??? lmao 😄😄😄😄
Wow that tree house underground makeup studio? Who was this guy!
I don't get why they keep calling a rifle as assault .
Some people doesnt really know the meaning of assault.
When there's an armed confrontation why don't the police disable the criminal's vehicle by shooting out the tires? I also would not be using a car door to protect myself against a rifle shot. A lot of this seems to be somewhat reckless and amateurish.
i guess it's sorta like watching a fight vs being in the fight. you often don't think of things other see so clearly.
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Don't confuse reenactment with actual events!
fbi got lucky . who got paid the reward?
WHY there's no security guards in the Bank 🏦🏧
the police incompetence is hard to believe
I’m sure you would have solved it right away.
I'm watching from the United States Virgin Islands...THE WORLD'S PARADISE!!!!
That guys crime isn't robbing banks...That guys crime is being GREEDY.
Imagine having 23000 cash at home but you still risk your life to pursue more, I wonder 🤔 how this criminal minds work's. He was so greedy.
He could have gotten away with it, Greed made him caught.
@@dottieogwayo3248 He could easily use that money to buy properties and start a legit business and get out of the crime world. However he probably enjoys the chase and can't stop. It was no longer about the money but the thrill and challenge. Probably wanted to break his previous take's record so it never ends.
The guy that talked should not have given the other guys name
Why no bullet proof glass?
That is funny, we have an old lady that embezzled the same amount from our condo board and the police refuse to investigate claiming it is a civil matter, I guess the law is not equitable anymore.
was she armed?
@@dan4091she claims to be associated to H.A.
Man this guy is TRAINED WELL LIKE A SECURITY GUARD 💂♂️ 🙄 😳 🤔 WHY NOT CHECK ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENTS
Only if greed hasn't brainwashed him. He's might be living a luxury life. I mean if.
Evasion of 4 and 5 years, that was extremely long, especially it's most of him that committed the robbery. Banks robberies. Fortunately from this, nobody has died. Except Scotts himself. So ironic, isn't it ?
Just a Guy from Singapore.
@28:37 and 28:43 I didn't think there was a choice in the matter.
When you hear one shot, and no response, he's dead.
Greed always catches up. They should've stopped after a mil.
Why not shift to a different city or state for a while?
This guy had a pretty good racket, seems like he wanted to get caught.
FBI host is just like Walter Matthau. or Karl Malden.
Everybody's trying to put their finger on the side that's how you teach people to shoot if you don't teach them with their finger anywhere else
I have watched Hollywood on so many UA-cam channels
He had a two way radio
Didn't they name a city after him?
So what happened to the milllion+ dollars he'd stolen over that time? Was he involved in organized crime? Too many unanswered questions.
The bank robber was foolish. How could he keep robbing when he had reached a million?
It took them a while to catch them
should have quit while they were ahead, the downfall of many criminals.
Typical “ Half Witted” Mayor defunding the Police Dept!