Joe Loya

Because they knew that the banks had ripped off so many people that when they would go into those banks, like pretty boy Floyd, he would go there.

And because they didn't have computers at that time, he would set fire to the mortgages that the banks held on those farmers.

So they became folk heroes because they were like banks had brought on the depression for everyone.

So when I run those banks, I don't feel guilty about it.

I did the time for those banks.

I served my time.

That's equal now.

Like I did something bad, I served time for it.

But I never could serve time for the pain that I inflicted on these women and a few men.

And so I don't give myself a pass for that.

I feel terrible about it.

In fact, the worst thing that I had, worst regrets and shame, what I carried on for a long time was for that.

That's the terrible part of the crime that I couldn't deal with.

And also what's interesting is they, for a podcast once about me called Bank Robber Diaries, they interviewed the women who, a woman who was one of the tellers, right?

But they interviewed her and they played it for me.

And when I heard it, I fell apart.

I broke down because she said everything you just said.

She had scared her.

She had to drop out of night school.

She said all these things that had happened to her, which are terrible.