Word: getaways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suddenly jumped on him and dragged him toward an orange Peugeot minivan. When Chauffeur Ab Doderer, 57, leaped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to save his boss, he too was beaten and abducted. Coolly following a well-rehearsed plan, the criminals whizzed through downtown Amsterdam, switched to a Citroen getaway car and vanished into the night. Police later discovered bloodstains on the deserted van and two Uzi submachine guns near...
...like the robbers' and had a similar license-plate number. The police waited, and when they saw Bowden get into the car, leaped out and shot him dead-within "three to five seconds," according to a reporter who was with the police. But the car was not the getaway car. Bowden had no criminal record. And at 5 ft. 4½ in. and 180 Ibs., he fitted the description of the tall, lean robbers in only one way: he was black. Despite the reluctance of citizens to second-guess the police, who continued to insist that Bowden...
...money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan knows that unless he kills them first the four will most certainly kill him, as soon as his usefulness to them is ended. He kills them, but not before...
...hats, glasses, false beards and mustaches, and black stage makeup, would enter the banks wielding guns. While one commandeered the lobby, shouting profanities and racial slurs, the other would leap over the counter and scoop up the money. Outside, a man in a business suit waited calmly in the getaway car, a gray Mercedes. Said Sacramento Police Sergeant Jim Rodenbaugh: "They were the most intimidating, sophisticated, active group I've ever dealt with...
After wounding the Pope, Agca was caught by police before he could duck into a getaway car. His alleged Bulgarian accomplices, two of whom Agca says were with him in the square, escaped...