This true crime story is not about a heist pulled off by a notorious bank robber or a cunning scam artist—but an audacious act of bureaucratic theft that spans generations. More than $30 billion in matured U.S. savings bonds, investments made with trust and patriotism, are sitting unclaimed. The rightful heirs, families like mine and […]
John Dillinger and the Rise of Public Enemies in the 1930s
The 1930s were a time of great turmoil and transition in America. The Jazz Age had ended, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) pushed through the repeal of Prohibition, but the country was in the grip of the Great Depression. Amidst this backdrop, a new breed of criminal emerged. These were not the pseudo-businessmen of […]
The Patty Hearst Saga 50 Years Later Heiress Turned Guerrilla?
Fifty years after the sensational kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst shocked the nation, questions still linger about her transformation from victim to revolutionary. On February 4, 1974, a knock on the door of Hearst’s Berkeley, California apartment changed her life forever when members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) abducted the 19-year-old granddaughter […]
Dennis Wayne Hope Broke Out Of Unbreakable Prisons Like Hollywood’s Cool Hand Luke
When George W. Bush was elected Governor of Texas on a law and order agenda in November of 1994, convicted bank robber Dennis Wayne Hope wrote to his mother that he now had no hope of ever making parole. Those were his words – no pun intended. The 26-year-old Hope had been training for months […]