Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Master Bank Robber Explains His Perfect Heist & Split Personality
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
Victor shear shares insane stories from when he was a bank robber. Victors Links https://www.tiktok.com/@mad.duck48?_t=ZT-8tLjVySou1S&_r=1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaKOgsFPIu9RMXT_ZNis-Qw Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @shop.mando and get $5 off off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code COX at https://Mandopodcast.com/COX #mandopod Get 50% sitewide for a limited time. Just visit https://GhostBed.com/cox and use code COX at checkout. Do you want to be a guest? Fill out the form https://forms.gle/5H7FnhvMHKtUnq7k7 Send me an email here: [email protected] Do you extra clips and behind the scenes content? Subscribe to my Patreon: https://patreon.com/InsideTrueCrime 📧Sign up to my newsletter to learn about Real Estate, Credit, and Growing a Youtube Channel: https://mattcoxcourses.com/news 🏦Raising & Building Credit Course: https://mattcoxcourses.com/credit 📸Growing a YouTube Channel Course: https://mattcoxcourses.com/yt 🏠Make money with Real Estate Course: https://mattcoxcourses.com/re Follow me on all socials! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@matthewcoxtruecrime Do you want a custom painting done by me? Check out my Etsy Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopart Listen to my True Crime Podcasts anywhere: https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my true crime books! Shark in the Housing Pool: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0851KBYCF Bent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4GC7TM It's Insanity: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KFYXKK8 Devil Exposed: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TH1WT5G Devil Exposed (The Abridgment): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1070682438 The Program: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0858W4G3K Bailout: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bailout-matthew-cox/1142275402 Dude, Where's My Hand-Grenade?: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXNFHBDF/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1678623676&sr=1-1 Checkout my disturbingly twisted satiric novel! Stranger Danger: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSWQP3WX If you would like to support me directly, I accept donations here: Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69 Cashapp: $coxcon69
Chapter 1: What motivated Victor Shear to become a bank robber?
So I grew up just being raised mostly by my grandmother and my sisters, because my mom works all the time. And let me tell you a childhood story. So I was about seven years old. I was going to be Casper. My brother says, you can go with the big boys on Halloween. So I go out with them. I said, there's a house. They go, don't worry about it. I said, there's a house. They go, don't worry about it.
So we get to the top of a hill, and there's an old maple, and there's a branch that goes out, and they take my... My costume and the other boys already have a small scarecrow made. And so they put the costume on it, and they're going to swing it out so somebody thinks they've killed a child. It's Halloween trick-or-treat, right?
So I get to go under the fence and get a head start, and that's exactly what they do. And from then on, you know, if I wasn't being chased, it wasn't a good Halloween. Yeah.
That's a horrible story.
Okay. Yeah, we also had—we didn't, but our neighbors always had snowmobiles and motorcycles, so we would play hide-and-go-seek, snowmobile, or hiding. And one of my earliest memories is just running from my life while two 16-year-olds on a snowmobile would come up, and the kid on the back would slap you. And they also had field cars. So we would get these cars and just drive them around the field.
So I got used to being chased and having just a higher, I don't know.
Higher what?
It would take a lot for me to get interested in it.
Okay.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of 'Mad Duck' in Victor's story?
Yeah.
I'm not going to watch TV. I don't play video games. I was always outside doing stuff. As this progresses, this is the late 60s, 70s. Every weekend, the same movies are on. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I remember Butch Cassidy. I love Butch Cassidy.
Colby doesn't know which Butch Cassidy. Jeremiah Johnson, right? Colby doesn't know what Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Well, he's got something to do tonight. Watch this movie. It changed my life. It put it down the toilet, but it still changed my life.
I'll add it to the list sometimes.
yeah absolutely and so then there's jeremiah johnson and the long riders so that's why i was going to show you this one by this age right here i already knew i wanted to be a bank robber okay so this is the car i had to make myself because i didn't have paul helping me and you can see i didn't get a lot of first place i think i got one and they probably the rest are just third place so
We're an independent, you know? We know the cavalry's never coming. We're always going to have to take care of ourselves, okay? So childhood goes on. We're always getting in and out of a little trouble, always being chased, whether we're hitting cars with snowballs, apples, just anything. So at 16, 17, I take my parents' car because it's snowing and they would both go to work in the same car.
So I take the car. I break it. I get caught. I get sent to break it.
You mean wrecked it?
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Chapter 3: How did Victor's childhood influence his criminal mindset?
They're good, but they're still making a little noise. So I go to Kevin, and I say, man, I think we're being followed. What are we going to do about it? Whatever, it's probably just me. So I see this compound up ahead, and finally the road stops, but we are right up against the fence of this compound where we can look in the window. Almost. Yeah, if somebody walked by the window.
So we're way too close. So I say, hey, what compound is that? He says, that's the Delta Force compound. I said, that's the Delta Force compound. So it's got to be a Delta Force guy that's probably following us, correct? Right. All right, so this is 1991. This joke isn't going to go over well, but a lot of people don't. The movie 300 hadn't come out.
Okay.
And these guys aren't big readers I'm with. So they don't know that the Spartans had mandatory homosexual acts in their training. And they really did.
Right. I don't think that was in the movie.
No, that was missed too. So I walk up to the tree line where I think the guy is to see if I can get him so pissed off that'll break his cover and beat me on it. I say, hey, Kevin, you know, I heard Delta Force is trained like the Spartans. He says, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I said, well, they're homosexuals, dude.
And I go into a two or three minute tirade on how, you know, Delta Force is obviously bisexual. I'm not against bisexuality. I'm just calling it for what it is. That's how you train these people. Finally, I'm told to shut the F up. We put on our gear. We leave. I go exactly nine feet because it's burned in my memory, and a little piece of metal hits where I was standing.
I knew somebody had thrown something at me, but Kevin actually thought it was a pin of a grenade. He finally said, I thought your New York mouth had finally got us killed. Now, I apologize to the Delta Force guy if he was there, and we went on our way. Okay, so Desert Storm, I don't do anything. Do you go? No, I don't do anything. Seven months. This is how I've lived for seven months.
Every day they said, you're leaving tomorrow. Don't worry about getting anything. You're going to leave tomorrow. Seven months. The worst thing about it is it's old-fashioned porn. You see where my bed is? My company commander would sit there for hours watching porn. I couldn't do anything. That's war. War is hell.
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Chapter 4: What were the rules Victor followed during his bank heists?
The reason, of course, not just helicopters, but police vehicles are not all four-wheel drive. And even if they are, they're going to get stuck behind the guy that's not. It doesn't have four-wheel. So really, I always had four-wheel drive, and it really cuts down on the reaction time. So it's a bad snowstorm. There's a V in the road, and on the right V is the bank.
In between the right V and the left V is a neighborhood. So I'm going to take the left V, park in the neighborhood, cross the road, do the 80 yards to the bank, hit the bank, come out and just hope nobody starts shooting at me because there's just nothing I can do on that one. So on the way there, everything keeps getting delayed, delayed, you know, because traffic is terrible.
Finally, I get to my spot. I get out. I get to the road, and I cannot get across this road. Traffic. Literally hundreds of people went by a bank robber holding his folder. At this point during the robberies, I was taping the gun in the folder. I had actually gone from – being real aggressive, just turning it down. You don't have to slam it. They just have to see it, you know?
So I've got it in a folder. It'll still work if I need it, but it's really more of a prop. Oh, man, I cannot get across this road. It's just bumper-to-bumper traffic, traffic. Finally, I get across.
there's instantly a problem mad duck says yo there's a blazer like an oj simpson blazer parked in the wrong he's parked facing out on the inter thing like he's waiting for somebody to come if you came out the bank and walked you'd walk right into his vehicle so he's got to be there to pick somebody up right maybe a bank robbery go in progress You know what? I never ever thought of that, man.
I never ever thought of that.
You imagine you're walking up, a guy's running out.
You're like, yeah, it would have been, I never thought of that. What I knew is that this guy would have no problem driving over me, even on the lawn. Like even if I didn't get on the sidewalk, he can run me over in this vehicle, dude. And so I was like, Mad Duck, do you have any plans? He says, absolutely. We're going to come out, shoot him, and take that vehicle to our vehicle.
I said, you got any other plans? He says, yeah, we're going to come out, we're going to shoot out those tires. You got any plans that doesn't have me firing my weapon? No, I don't. So I'm almost to the door, and I've got these big, they were called cataract glasses. You ever seen those? Yeah, I wear those. Those hide half of your face. So I'm looking at this guy, and he's staring right at me.
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Chapter 5: What led to Victor's eventual capture?
Chapter 6: How did Victor's drug addiction affect his life choices?
Chapter 7: What is the story behind Victor's robbery methods?
Chapter 8: What was Victor's experience on 9/11?
From 2002 to 2008, the only thing I can mention is that I did go to Czechoslovakia and East Germany and Germany with a friend that I'd met in Special Forces camp. I was a private contractor. And, oh, that's what it looks like over there. That's what Czechoslovakia looks like.
Yeah, it's depressing.
Yeah. And then, so I was a private contractor with General Lama Bay. I'm not going to tell you the story where we ate the German shepherd. But what I will tell you is that dog is terrible. It's white and stringy. There, I don't eat dog. So now what? Now we're going to get to the true crime. Finally. God. So it's 2008. I'm working at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
You're working there? Yeah, I'm working there.
Oh, nice. Yeah, this whole time I'm working as a traveling nurse. I'd also worked at great metal maximum security correctional facilities. I've worked at quite a few New York State correctional facilities. As an agency nurse, that's all. I'm not a state worker, and that's going to come in handy. So I'm down in Bedford Hills. I'm working 16-hour shifts.
I'm giving money for room and board, but I don't use it. I have a pickup truck, so I park the pickup truck way in back, and I just sleep in the back of it, right? So that's what I'm doing, and a woman, a girl, really, a 21-year-old correctional officer who I had worked with parked out there
And this dude, I didn't know it at the time, but he was a lieutenant off duty guy, pulled up and decided that he wanted some of that. And so I'm listening to this outside.
my uh my car and finally just puts his hands on her so i i had a german entrenching tool and i get out and i'm gonna save the girl and he looks at me and he i knew that he either had a gun in his waist or ankle so if he pivoted for one of those you just break their collarbone and When you fight with a German, a tool like that, you break the collarbone and then you go around later and clean up.
But you got to break that collarbone first. He doesn't. He pivots and runs right for his car. So I take the girl, I put her in my truck and I drive to a hotel. I put her in a room and I sleep on the floor because I'm just wore out. And I feel like I really need to mention this. Starting in 2000, I'd started taking narcotics while building my cabin. I'd cut a tree and it hit another tree.
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