Summary of America's Smartest Bank Robbery? | True Crime Documentary | Real Crime

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This video discusses the story of a bank robbery that took place in South Carolina in 1995. The robbers took an employee hostage and forced her to call her co-worker for the combination to the vault. When the co-worker didn't answer, the robber became agitated and shot the employee, accidentally wounding her. The robbers then took the employee's family hostage, before the gun went off again and the hostages escaped unharmed.

• 00:00:00 In October 1995, two armed men held a family hostage at their home in South Carolina, demanding money from their bank account. The mastermind of the robbery was eventually caught, but he was able to escape again, prompting the FBI and police in four other states to pursue him.
• 00:05:00 The video describes the story of a bank robber who took an employee hostage and forced her to call her co-worker for the combination to the vault. When the co-worker didn't answer, the robber became agitated and shot the employee, accidentally wounding her. The robbers then took the employee's family hostage, before the gun went off again and the hostages escaped unharmed.
• 00:10:00 The video follows the story of a robbery at a bank in Georgia, where the gunmen ordered the victim to punch in the combination to a vault that held money, then made her stay on the phone while they took the money. After loading up the money, the gunmen ordered the victim to call her parents, and when she did, one of the gunmen left to take care of things at the house. After the gunmen left, the victim called police and freed herself and her family.
• 00:15:00 This video examines the 1995 South Carolina and Georgia bank robbery case in which three African-American men were identified as the suspects. The men were eventually apprehended after a high-speed car chase and interrogation. The video also discusses the investigation leading to their identification.
• 00:20:00 In this true crime documentary, law enforcement officials interview two suspects in the robbery of a small bank in Mississippi. The suspects, who are friends and had allegedly been playing basketball at a church before the robbery, admit their involvement and provide details about the crime. Special Agent Jones interviews the second suspect, Daniel Evans, and learns that the third suspect, Christopher Jeburk, was the mastermind behind the robbery and was in charge. Evidence is found linking Burke to the robbery and he is arrested after a brief chase.
• 00:25:00 In October 1995, Christopher Jabirk was sought for armed kidnapping and bank robbery. His mother called him, advising him to come talk to authorities. Jabirk arrived with his girlfriend, and although only 19 years old, he was already on a five-year probation for burglary. Djibberg escaped from a detention center and investigators took him in for questioning. His girlfriend agreed to come in too, and FBI Special Agent Jerry Jones questioned you, Burke about the kidnapping of the Shaw family and the bank robbery in Georgia. Jabirk admitted knowing the two confessed gunmen, Daniel Evans and Lamarco Roscoe, but denied any involvement in the crime. He said he was in Mount Vernon, Georgia, with his girlfriend and another female friend at the time in question. Gibberick at first gave the two girls as his alibi, claiming to have gone with one of the girls to pick up the other girl and then come back to Augusta, Georgia, and stated that he was with the two girls the entire day and even after they arrived back in Augusta, Georgia, they went to a movie together all three of them. Jabirk's partners, Daniel Evans and Lamarco Roscoe, pleaded guilty to state charges of burglary, kidnapping, and armed robbery. They were sentenced to
• 00:30:00 In March of 1996, two inmates disappeared while awaiting trial at a new jail being constructed in Edgefield, South Carolina. A search ensued, but the men were never found. A year later, FBI agents investigating a car theft connected the disappearances to an escaped inmate in Georgia, and arrested the two female accomplices.
• 00:35:00 In 1996, two escapees from a county jail fled to a stolen car, FBI Special Agent Jerry Jones pursuit, and eventually a carjacking and home invasion in Lumberton, North Carolina. Based on witness identifications and photographic surveillance, agents were able to track Fryerson Bay to a motel in New Jersey, where he was arrested. Farson Bay was eventually arrested in Virginia.
• 00:40:00 FBI agents were investigating a string of armed bank robberies when they suspected one of the suspects, Jerome Fryerson Bay, of being involved. After several hours of surveillance, they spotted Fryerson Bay driving a car and attempted to pull him over. Fryerson Bay refused to stop and led the FBI on a high-speed chase through several states before he was finally arrested. In the car with Fryerson Bay was Christopher Juberk, who was later convicted of 10 bank robberies and sentenced to 19 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
• 00:45:00 In 2010, Christopher Burkes committed a robbery at an Augusta, Georgia bank, kidnapping Amy Shaw and her family's assistant US Attorney Richard Goolsby fought to keep him off the streets forever. Burkes was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole, but attempted to escape several weeks into his sentence by hanging underneath a laundry truck. He was transferred to the maximum security federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, and no one doubts he will try again.