How to Rob a Bank

00:30:39,879 --> 00:30:44,217 I'm trying to recall the cases I worked where somebody did what Hollywood did, 540 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:45,885 from doing teller drawers 541 00:30:45,969 --> 00:30:49,639 to doing armed takeovers to doing vault takeovers. 542 00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:53,893 I can't think of anyone else that took that route. 543 00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:58,731 The Hollywood investigation was similar to a jigsaw puzzle. 544 00:30:58,815 --> 00:31:00,942 We had little clues here, little clues here. 545 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:02,735 Starting to put the big picture together. 546 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:05,989 I think Hollywood was enjoying what he did. 547 00:31:06,906 --> 00:31:10,118 First four robberies, he got more than the average bank robber. 548 00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:14,205 But then he started going into the vaults. 549 00:31:14,789 --> 00:31:17,417 Doing vault robberies on your own is very risky, 550 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,962 because you have no idea what's happening in the rest of the bank. 551 00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:24,799 It's more exposure. It's more potential for alarms going off. 552 00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:29,512 At that point in time, his level of sophistication went up. 553 00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:31,139 The threat went up. 554 00:31:32,140 --> 00:31:34,976 It was a challenge to him, and he wanted to challenge us. 555 00:31:35,643 --> 00:31:37,729 But the big picture here was what? 556 00:31:37,812 --> 00:31:40,857 It was, "Who is Hollywood? Who is Hollywood?" 557 00:31:43,151 --> 00:31:46,738 -[man] All right. You ready? -Welcome to the Treehouse. Come right in. 558 00:31:49,157 --> 00:31:51,784 [Suzanne] My parents were totally in awe of the Treehouse 559 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,621 because my dad loved building things. 560 00:31:55,705 --> 00:31:58,207 [man laughs] This is going to be the dining room. 561 00:31:58,291 --> 00:31:59,125 [Scott] Yup. 562 00:31:59,208 --> 00:32:02,503 [Suzanne] It was one of the most remarkable edifices ever. 563 00:32:03,046 --> 00:32:08,593 So they were in awe of who Scotty was and what he had done in that arena. 564 00:32:08,676 --> 00:32:10,678 [wistful music playing] 565 00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:13,348 We grew up in a loving household. 566 00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:17,352 My father was a minister, a very well-loved minister. 567 00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:20,730 My mother was a teacher of learning disabled children. 568 00:32:22,398 --> 00:32:26,486 We were preacher's kids, and darn it, from a very young age, 569 00:32:26,569 --> 00:32:29,614 we were gonna prove to everybody that we're not goody-two-shoes. 570 00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:33,993 [man] Both of us were very adventurous. That's what made us friends. 571 00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:37,872 He had a different quality, a fearlessness. 572 00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:41,834 There were showroom houses all around Reston, Virginia. 573 00:32:42,335 --> 00:32:44,712 We knew how to get into all of them. 574 00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:49,300 Scotty and I both learned how to pick locks. 575 00:32:49,384 --> 00:32:52,428 We did not learn to pick locks to steal anything. 576 00:32:52,512 --> 00:32:54,555 We learned how to pick locks 577 00:32:54,639 --> 00:32:57,308 so we could get to the other side of the door. 578 00:32:57,392 --> 00:32:59,394 [wistful music continues] 579 00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:02,313 [Suzanne] As he grew older into his teen years, 580 00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:04,732 he became more and more and more secretive. 581 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:07,568 And we used to call him the master of disinformation 582 00:33:07,652 --> 00:33:09,988 because he wouldn't outright lie to you, 583 00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:14,909 but he would tell you something that you knew wasn't quite right 584 00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:16,494 or he would leave something out. 585 00:33:18,579 --> 00:33:22,250 When he first started to do crazy stuff, 586 00:33:22,333 --> 00:33:26,462 one of the things he did, and I think he was 15, maybe 16, 587 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:29,841 was that he and this friend stole a car, 588 00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:32,885 a van I believe, from a local day care center, 589 00:33:32,969 --> 00:33:35,179 and drove it to the beach, and they got caught. 590 00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:39,851 And I think that was a big break for my father, 591 00:33:39,934 --> 00:33:42,520 because he realized with that event 592 00:33:42,603 --> 00:33:45,189 that something had really gone south in Scotty. 593 00:33:45,273 --> 00:33:47,316 [wistful music continues] 594 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:53,239 He grew up and didn't outgrow the behavior that we had as kids or adolescents. 595 00:33:53,906 --> 00:33:56,284 He just sort of refined it and kept right on going. 596 00:33:57,410 --> 00:34:00,079 [Steve] Everything with Scott was a stepping stone