Cell Phone Bank Robber Still a Face With No Name

The Washington Post has un update on yesterday's story of a woman robbing banks while talking on her cell phone.

"Millions have seen her on surveillance videotape, calmly talking on her cell phone during one of the holdups. Still, no one can say who she is.

... Theories abounded yesterday as to who she is, where she might be and why she does it with a phone stuck to her ear. Is she a master of disguise? Is she merely there to rob and then leave -- a tourist bandit? Is she under someone else's control? Is she hypnotized?

Each time, she conducted her entire transaction while talking on the phone, appearing indifferent to the whole "I'm committing another federal felony" matter."

Interesting, Her technique is not entirely new, according to The Washington Post..

In the late 1980s, a gang of bank robbers in the Los Angeles area chatted on cell phones while they waited in line, according to retired FBI agent William J. Rehder. And, back then, cell phones were big and unwieldy.

The gang leader would always give his accomplices a cell phone to keep them pacified, and he would be on the other end of the line, Rehder said. It was a way to reduce nervousness and anxiety -- and to look like a regular customer, he said. ....

emily | 2:47 PM | |
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