The Stopwatch Gang ran 90 seconds flat on every job
About this episode
Charlie Cruz explores the notorious Stopwatch Gang and their unique approach to bank robberies that allowed them to evade capture for years.
The Stopwatch Gang pulled off over one hundred bank robberies across two countries and walked away with more than fifteen million dollars without killing a single person. The crew ran a hard ninety second clock on every job and left the moment time expired, whether the bag was full or not. The discipline turned police response time into a structural weakness they could exploit on repeat. Charlie Cruz walks through the mechanism and the investigative pressure that finally ended the run.
Topics covered
- bank robbery
- true crime
- investigation
- criminal tactics
- police response
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