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EPISODE · Feb 27, 2026 · 49 MIN

The Dunbar Heist: The Inside Job Behind America's Largest Cash Robbery

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In September 1997, a team of six masked men executed a meticulously planned raid on the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, effortlessly subduing the guards and escaping with a staggering $18.9 million—the largest cash robbery in U.S. history. With no witnesses and the perpetrators vanished into the night, the FBI had one critical lead: the robbery displayed an intimate knowledge of the depot's operations, pointing to a former employee. This is the story of how agents, armed with a single, fragile piece of physical evidence—a fragment of a truck's taillight—conducted a relentless surveillance operation to connect the disgruntled insider to his crew of collaborators, meticulously piecing together the conspiracy to recover the fortune and bring the architects of the near-perfect crime to justice.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime--6473403/support.

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