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In 1993, a robber waited three hours in the crawl space above a California bank before dropping through the ceiling, stealing $35,000, and escaping in a running gun battle with police. Two months later, the same man masterminded the kidnapping of a prominent jeweler’s wife for a $2 million ransom. This is the story of Eural Wills II, the rooftop heist, and the kidnapping plot that unraveled because of a timely arrest. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

On January 25, 1993, a lone gunman stepped out of his car in rush-hour traffic outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and fired an AK-47 into the vehicles of CIA employees. Two were killed, three wounded. The killer fled to Pakistan. This is the story of the four-year global manhunt, the controversial capture, and the legal and political aftermath of the Langley ambush. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

On a Saturday morning in January 2001, two teenagers knocked on the door of a house in Etna, New Hampshire, and asked to talk about an environmental survey. They were let in. Minutes later, two beloved Dartmouth College professors, Half and Susanne Zantop, were dead. The killers, a former honors student and a self-described class clown from nearby Chelsea, Vermont, had planned to raise $10,000 to move to Australia. They left with about $340. This episode traces the investigation by Hanover police, the New Hampshire State Police, and the FBI: a puzzling scene with no forced entry, a bloody boot print, two forgotten knife sheaths, a flight across the country, and an arrest at an Indiana truck stop. It also follows the cases through guilty pleas and a changing legal landscape for juvenile sentences. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

On the night of September 12, 1997, six men stole $18.9 million from the Dunbar Armored depot in Los Angeles — the largest cash robbery in U.S. history at the time. The mastermind was a security inspector fired one day earlier. The FBI found a flashlight lens and a U-Haul. But the case only broke two years later, when one of the robbers paid a real estate broker with cash still wrapped in bank currency straps. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

In 1996, a cell of domestic terrorists bombed a Spokane newspaper and a Planned Parenthood clinic, robbing the same bank minutes after each attack. The FBI traced the bombs to the Phineas Priesthood, a white supremacist ideology, and hunted the men across state lines. This is the story of the Spokane bombings, the bank raids, and the decades-long legal fight that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

On a Friday afternoon in January 1984, U.S. Customs Inspector Richard Latham looked under the back seat of a car at the Del Rio port of entry and found a bag of stolen jewelry. Minutes later, four men forced him into the car at gunpoint and drove away. Sixty years earlier, his grandfather, Customs Inspector James Wallen, had been killed near the same crossing. The next day, Latham's body was found in a ditch near Eagle Pass, Texas. Within hours, one suspect shot himself at a roadblock, another was in custody, and the FBI was questioning him. This episode traces the abduction, the overnight search by an entire border community, the arrests, and the long legal aftermath, including the 2020 release that reopened the wound for his three daughters. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

A British Army major stops for gas in New Mexico and vanishes. His rental car is found submerged in an Indiana lake. The FBI has two escaped Alabama convicts, a passport, and a trail of stolen vehicles — but no body. This is the story of the manhunt, the desert grave, and the controversial plea deal that finally brought Major David Nichols home. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

In a hotel room in Zurich, a businessman asked an old associate whether the FBI had ever mentioned "the D," a code word for a murder. The associate was wearing a wire. Steve Banerjee built Chippendales into a worldwide brand. In 1987, his business partner, producer and choreographer Nick De Noia, was shot and killed in New York. Banerjee was not linked to the crime for years, while federal investigators say he went on to target rival dance troupes with arson and murder plots. This episode traces the informant who contacted the FBI in Las Vegas, the hitman who agreed to cooperate, the sting in Switzerland that recorded Banerjee's own words, and the guilty plea that ended the case, hours before a sentence that was never handed down. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

In 1980, a bomb exploded inside the museum at the base of the Statue of Liberty. Five groups claimed responsibility. The FBI traced it to a Croatian nationalist network called Otpor — and spent years building a racketeering case that would dismantle its leadership. This is the story of the bombing, the extortion letters, and the RICO trial that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

A 25-year-old mother wins $5,000 at a Mississippi casino and is abducted from a Memphis driveway hours later. The FBI finds a single wool fiber in a maroon Beretta, a casino surveillance tape, and a killer’s confession to his wife. This is the case that ended with a death sentence and a decades-long fight over marital privilege. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

A nationwide manhunt for two killers ends in a concrete culvert near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September 1994. Lewis Gilbert and Eric Elliott had left a trail of stolen cars and bodies across Ohio, Missouri and Oklahoma. This is the story of how the road ran out, and what happened in the courtrooms that followed. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

Four men having lunch at a historic Manhattan tavern in 1975 are killed by a bomb planted by the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group. The FBI identifies the chief bomb-maker, William Morales, but he loses his hands in an explosion, escapes from a hospital prison ward, and flees to Cuba. This is the story of the Fraunces Tavern bombing and the manhunt that never ended. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

For three days in February 2000, more than 100 officers, airplanes, and military helicopters searched the frozen plains of western Nebraska. Schools closed. A farmer was dead, and two officers had been shot. The man they were looking for, Charles Lannis Moses Jr., a Texas survivalist wanted on warrants for probation violation and explosives, had vanished across the state line into Wyoming. It wasn't a SWAT team that ended the hunt. It was a rancher named Jim Kremers, his son, a standoff in a muddy yard, and a deal made at gunpoint. This episode traces the shootout, the killing of farmer Robert Sedlacek, the manhunt across two states, and the surrender that ended it. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.

In July 1985, three men drowned in the Miami River during what looked like a drug deal gone wrong. Then a night watchman said the men who stormed the boat yard were police officers. The Miami River Cops, a group of officers nicknamed the Enterprise, shook down motorists, then went after boatloads of cocaine. In one night at Jones Boat Yard, they took between 350 and 400 kilos worth about $10 million, and three smugglers drowned trying to escape. This episode traces how the FBI and local investigators caught them: a covert sting, a first trial that ended in a mistrial, an officer who turned witness, and the fugitive who ended up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Nearly 100 officers were arrested, fired, suspended, or reprimanded. Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fbi-files--7331575/support. Thanks for listening to The FBI Files. New cases every week — follow now so you never miss one. This podcast is a narrative retelling based on publicly available information and is intended for entertainment purposes. This episode includes AI-generated content.