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justins5256 · 09-25-2006, 12:55 PM

Does anyone remember this one - an anonymous store employee (yes, the details were really that vague in the segment) was dropping off the weekly deposits at a bank late at night when they were robbed at gunpoint by a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt. The victim did not resist, but was pistol whipped by the robber. The incident was recorded on video by surveillance cameras and some pictures from this sequence were shown on UM. It was difficult to see the robber clearly because he had the hood pulled up and drawn tight so one could only see his eyes. This was a special alert. It would have been in the 96-early 97 time frame. I can't remember if I have seen it on Lifetime.

Composite Sketch · 09-25-2006, 11:02 PM

I recall seeing it in a 2001/2 episode of Lifetime and wouldn't be surprised if it was a Special Alert as it was so brief.

IIRC, the pistol whipping caught on tape was used as the example (and a lead-in to the two unsolved cases they were tackling: one of a cop shot in front of his nephew after pulling someone over, later solved, and the other of a convenience store worker killed during an armed robbery) of how camera footage is slowed down and repeated in order to obtain clues, and I recall Stack mentioning how it was used in the trial so I think they were caught and convicted.

09-25-2006, 12:55 PM	#1
justins5256 Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 08, 2002 Posts: 3,866	Brutal armed robbery case in Florida - was it solved? Does anyone remember this one - an anonymous store employee (yes, the details were really that vague in the segment) was dropping off the weekly deposits at a bank late at night when they were robbed at gunpoint by a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt. The victim did not resist, but was pistol whipped by the robber. The incident was recorded on video by surveillance cameras and some pictures from this sequence were shown on UM. It was difficult to see the robber clearly because he had the hood pulled up and drawn tight so one could only see his eyes. This was a special alert. It would have been in the 96-early 97 time frame. I can't remember if I have seen it on Lifetime.

09-25-2006, 11:02 PM	#2
Composite Sketch Staring at you Frequent Poster Join Date: Aug 26, 2003 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 304	I recall seeing it in a 2001/2 episode of Lifetime and wouldn't be surprised if it was a Special Alert as it was so brief. IIRC, the pistol whipping caught on tape was used as the example (and a lead-in to the two unsolved cases they were tackling: one of a cop shot in front of his nephew after pulling someone over, later solved, and the other of a convenience store worker killed during an armed robbery) of how camera footage is slowed down and repeated in order to obtain clues, and I recall Stack mentioning how it was used in the trial so I think they were caught and convicted.