Word: heyl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police captain in South Africa. Son of a police major general, Stander had inexplicably taken to robbing banks. Found guilty of several heists in 1980, he and a fellow convict, Patrick McCall, 34, overpowered three prison guards last August, escaped, and later broke into another prison to free Allan Heyl, 31, a friend. The three quickly began knocking off banks, some 20 of them, as many as four in one day. As they hopped from bank to bank, they became known as "the Hopper Gang." Their net: an estimated...