47: The Ballad of Cowboy Bob

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In the early 1990s, a stoic man pulled off a string of bank robberies in the Dallas suburbs. He was dubbed “Cowboy Bob” by the FBI agents who were left scratching their heads trying to find him. When they finally found him, Cowboy Bob turned out to be quite the surprise.

The first bank robbery occurred in May 1991 at the American Federal Bank in Irving Texas. Cowboy Bob walked into the bank and up to a young female teller. He was about 5’10” tall, a large imposing man with a bit of a paunch. He was white with greying hair, looked to be in his mid-forties, and had a big bushy mustache and beard. He wore a brown leather jacket, leather gloves, oversized aviator sunglasses, and a large white 10-gallon cowboy hat, backwards.

The teller said: “Hello, sir. How may I help you?”

But Cowboy Bob remained silent. He simply handed her a not ...