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THE PLUNDERERS
Original Airdate: Apr. 24, 1966
Synopsis. Four men led by King Hogan pull off an elaborately planned bank robbery at a small branch in Baltimore that results in the fatal shooting of a security guard—but only $12,000 in stolen funds. (The bank’s vault, containing a fortune in cash, remained untouched.) The theft was actually a dry run for a much bigger heist in Butchers Bay, Virginia that’s worth two million dollars. The Bureau’s investigation reveals that Hogan’s M.O. follows that of the late Wendell Cummings, a notorious bank robber from the 1940s whom Hogan met when they were cellmates at Leavenworth. While Erskine looks into all previous prison mates of Cummings over the past fifteen years, a small coat button found in the debris of the practice job turns out to be the vital clue.
LEARN MORE about “The Plunderers” in THE FBI DOSSIER, everything you wanted to know—and more—about the long-running ABC-TV series produced by Quinn Martin and starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
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