;Red” Rountree walked into the First American Bank in Abilene, Texas, and handed the teller an envelope on which he’d written the word “robbery.” Not long after he’d made off with a bag of the bank’s cash—$2,000 in small bills— police chased down Rountree’s beat-up Buick Regal, took the thief into custody, and started the wheels of legal justice turning. As bank heists go, this one would hardly be worthy of remark,
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