The 14-Year-Old Bank Robber | From Heavyweight
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Pushkin. This episode follows the story of a 14-year-old kid who robbed a bank for $40,000 with his father's sawed-off shotgun.
33 years later, he talked with Heavyweight's host, Jonathan Goldstein, about apologizing to the people he harmed that fateful day.
If you liked the episode, listen to Heavyweight wherever you get your podcasts. Here's Jonathan with the story.
How's it going?
Dr. Jackie Cohen?
Yeah.
How about this? Jackie Cohen, Dr. Jackie Cohen. So, okay, so now that I am officially in my late 50s, what do you think I could do to start improving my health?
Yeah, you could build up that little noodle body of yours. Get some meatballs on the spaghetti. Yes, yes. Oh, you're laughing?
Is that a medical term?
Why aren't you doing any weightlifting?
Because I don't live near a gym.
You don't have to go near a gym. Why don't you do something at home?
Who is X and why did he contact Heavyweight about a 14-year-old bank robbery?
Like where I just go around the house and I like lift a couch or try to pull a toilet out or something?
Yeah, that.
From Pushkin Industries, I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and this is Heavyweight. Today's episode, The Bank Robber. Right after the break.
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Hello.
Hello, how are you?
Hi, good, how are you?
Doing really well, thank you. Good. Are you comfortable? I am, yes. The story you're about to hear is from someone who's still figuring out how to tell it, or even if he should tell it. It just seems very crazy, and it's kind of hard for me to talk about it. At this point, he's only shared the story with a couple of people, and he only agreed to share it with me after I promised not to use his real name, so we'll call him X. My communication with X began with an email he sent me over three years ago. It contained a lot of nervous preamble and throat clearing, but eventually he came to the point. In 1992, he said, I committed an armed bank robbery. I was just one month past my 14th birthday. X begins this story by telling me about his family.
He was raised on a dairy farm, the son of immigrant parents. He was one of seven children, all brothers. X was right in the middle.
Right in the middle, yeah. Three older, three younger, yeah.
X's home life wasn't an easy one.
Well, you would call it abusive today. You know, the belt or broomstick or whatever was handy was used as a corrective measure. My mom was a little more creative in the implements she would use, but it didn't hurt as much as when my dad did it.
To illustrate, X tells me about the night he snuck out to the local junior high. He noticed an open window and broke in. The police caught him and brought him home, where his parents were waiting.
They told me to remove all my clothing, so I did, minus my underwear. And then I just got, like, the beating of my life with a belt. But I just remember it hitting me all over my body. I remember it hitting my penis. Like, it was pretty brutal.
Eck says there were other nights like that.
I remember crying and lights are out and my younger brother trying to say something to comfort me and me saying something like I hate them and I don't want to be here anymore.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–1:29
2
Who is X and why did he contact Heavyweight about a 14-year-old bank robbery?
1:29–18:48
3
What was X's family and childhood like before the robbery?
18:48–29:11
4
How did bullying and fantasy escalate into a plan to rob a bank?
29:11–45:38
5
What steps did X take the night before and morning of the robbery?
45:38–45:39