204: Wells Fargo Robbery & a Mysterious Illness

Published: March 2, 2022, 12:30 p.m.

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It\\u2019s tough to rob an armored car. But on November 28, 1994, a group of men did exactly that. Their crime was brazen. They took control of the vehicle in a mall parking lot, in broad daylight. They exercised unnecessary violence, too. They shot the Wells Fargo van driver, John Magoch, in the head and left him slumped over in the front seat. When the armored car was discovered abandoned in a church parking lot a few hours later, the money \\u2014 and the criminals \\u2014 were long gone. \\xa0
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Then Brandi tells us about a mysterious illness. Janet Overton hadn\\u2019t been feeling well. She turned to doctors for answers, but couldn\\u2019t get any. Whatever plagued her was tough to identify. And then, one day, Janet collapsed in her driveway. The 46-year-old woman, who\\u2019d been healthy until recently, was now dead.
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And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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\\u201cThe Wells Fargo Heist\\u201d episode of American Justice
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\\u201cConvict says manhunter framed him\\u201d by Dennis Wagner for the Arizona Republic
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\\u201cNew questions in\\xa0 \\u201894 armored-car murder,\\u201d by Michael Kiefer for the Arizona Republic
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\\u201cRing v. Arizona,\\u201d Oyez.org\\n
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\\u201cTimothy Stuart Ring,\\u201d Murderpedia.org\\n
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\\u201cFormer Falls resident still denies role in murder,\\u201d by Bob Dyer for the Akron Beacon Journal
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\\u201cThree arrested in slaying in armored car heist,\\u201d by Richard Robertson and Susan Leonard for the Arizona Republic
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In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cJanet Overton\\u201d chillingcrimes.com\\n
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\\u201cA Slow Death\\u201d episode The Real Murders of Orange County
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\\u201cEvery morning, Janet Overton applied eyeliner. It was slowly killing her.\\u201d By Helen Vnuk, MamaMia
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\\u201cO.C. man convicted of fatally poisoning his wife\\u201d by Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times
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