* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

    Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

    Country music legend rushed to hospital year after heart surgery. Here’s what we know – PennLive.com

    Country Music Legend Rushed to Hospital One Year After Heart Surgery – What’s Happening Now?

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

    Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 Technology Stocks to Buy Now – Yahoo Finance

    3 Must-Buy Tech Stocks You Can’t Afford to Miss Right Now

    ‘New frontier’: Austin leaders start discussions on air taxi technology – KXAN Austin

    Austin Leaders Ignite Exciting Conversations on the Future of Air Taxi Technology

    How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

    How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

    Italian Technology in Manufacturing: Supporting North American Industries and Keeping Production Local – Thomasnet

    How Italian Technology is Revolutionizing North American Manufacturing and Boosting Local Production

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

    Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

    Country music legend rushed to hospital year after heart surgery. Here’s what we know – PennLive.com

    Country Music Legend Rushed to Hospital One Year After Heart Surgery – What’s Happening Now?

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Placer County town of Loomis considers entertainment zone for downtown – CBS News

    Loomis Unveils Thrilling New Entertainment Zone to Revitalize Downtown

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    CT Culture Corner: Robert Redford films to watch – CT Insider

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

    Elmira’s New Entertainment Venue ‘Centertown Social’ Adding its Final Touches – WENY News

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 Technology Stocks to Buy Now – Yahoo Finance

    3 Must-Buy Tech Stocks You Can’t Afford to Miss Right Now

    ‘New frontier’: Austin leaders start discussions on air taxi technology – KXAN Austin

    Austin Leaders Ignite Exciting Conversations on the Future of Air Taxi Technology

    How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway – blog.google

    How a Gemma Model Revealed a Breakthrough Pathway for Cancer Treatment

    Italian Technology in Manufacturing: Supporting North American Industries and Keeping Production Local – Thomasnet

    How Italian Technology is Revolutionizing North American Manufacturing and Boosting Local Production

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home News

How Netflix’s How to Rob a Bank Tells a Wild True Story About Living a Life of Lies

June 5, 2024
in News
How Netflix’s How to Rob a Bank Tells a Wild True Story About Living a Life of Lies
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The filmmakers behind Netflix’s latest documentary—How to Rob a Bank— do not want viewers to take its title literally. Although the film, out June 5, features accounts from real bank robbers who explain how they got people to hand over cash, directors Seth Porges and Stephen Robert Morse hope nobody gets ideas after watching it.

“This is a movie about how you shouldn’t be a bank robber,” Porges says. “This is a story about what it means to live a double life, what it means to live a life of lies, and how unsustainable that is.”

Here, the story behind How to Rob a Bank.

How bank robbers successfully stole money across Seattle in the 1990s

How to Rob a Bank opens on Seattle journalists who covered the robberies in the 1990s discussing how banks were opening everywhere in the city at the time, as the number of successful companies, like Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks, grew in the area.

“Cash coming in from the tech boom was fueling this,” David Kerley, news anchor for KIRO-TV, says in the film. (Fun fact for Succession fans, Kerly played a news anchor who is anchoring ATN on election night.)

The film centers on the stories of Mark Biggins and Steve Meyers, two men behind 19 confirmed bank robberies across Seattle that netted them over $2.3 million. In the film, they appear to explain their tips and tricks and share how they took orders from a guy who lived in a treehouse named Scott Scurlock.

Based on interviews with friends and family members, it’s clear that Scurlock became a bank robber because he always wanted to make a lot of money. He was premed at the progressive liberal arts college in Washington state called The Evergreen State College, but to make money fast, he started making crystal meth. He got kicked out.

But his sister says in the film that the family knew something was off about him much earlier, when he stole a car as a teenager to go to the beach. It’s all especially surprising behavior, given he came from such a straight-laced family, with a father who was a minister and a mother who taught children who had learning disabilities. The family gave filmmakers access to Scurlock’s diary, in which he admits, “my mind is like an undisciplined child that’s gone wild.” 

In the film, people who worked with Scurlock detail how much research he did before robbing banks. At one bank, they were able to befriend a teller and she gave them copies of the employee manuals, with protocols for the teller stations, managing the vaults of cash, and delivery procedures. The robbers wanted to be well-versed in bank lingo so they’d be taken seriously. They waited until armored vehicles that delivered cash arrived and they’d do their robberies when the cars left because that’s when there was the most money in the bank. They also wrote down when cops came to patrol them, timing their robberies to when the coast was clear. If one of Scurlock’s accomplices saw police during a robbery, they’d page “Mama’s coming.” 

In the film, one of Scurlock’s accomplices, Biggins, explains how they’d use a bank customer’s car as a getaway vehicle. He wore a Ronald Reagan mask durings heists, while Scurlock wore a prosthetic nose, chin, and cheeks that disguised his identity. Law enforcement nicknamed him “Hollywood” because his disguise made him look like a burglar in a Hollywood film. Another accomplice, Meyers, waxes poetic about the experience of planning and executing bank robberies with Scurlock, calling it “the most creative thing I’ve ever done in my life.” He compares finding the perfect bank to rob to “finding a piece of marble that’s perfect for some image I have that I want to sculpt.”

After every haul, Scurlock and his accomplices would go through the money, holding each bill up to UV light to see if there were electronic tracers. Gear to carry out robberies were buried in the ground, and the robbers burned their clothes after each robbery. Scurlock lived out of a treehouse when he was in Washington and used the stolen money to travel to far-flung places in the world. He gave cash to any friend who needed money, and also to establish goodwill in case he needed to call on them later for a favor. He made donations to Earth First, seeing himself as a Robin Hood figure who stole from the rich and gave to a needy, worthy cause.

Mark Biggins and Scott Scurlock in How to Rob a BankMark Biggins and Scott Scurlock in How to Rob a BankCourtesy of Netflix—© 2024 Netflix, Inc.

What happened to the bank robbers?

One of the reasons the robbers kept catching banks by surprise is that they’d rob the same bank multiple times in a row, when the bank wouldn’t be expecting them to come back so soon. But they were caught on Nov. 27, 1996, the day before Thanksgiving, when the robbers unknowingly stole stacks of cash with electronic tracers that the FBI had embedded specifically to track their whereabouts. A shootout between police and Scurlock ensued. Scurlock shot himself to death, and his accomplices Meyers and Biggins were sentenced to 21 years and 3 months in prison.

Both Biggins and Meyers had served their time for about a decade before agreeing to participate in the documentary. Meyers got out in 2013, and Biggins got out in 2015, and they both went on to live quiet lives. For both men, the Netflix documentary ends up being a time in which they can reflect on how addictive the robberies were. As Biggins puts it, “Once you do cross the Rubicon and start living that life you have to lie to everybody about everything, everybody you care about , everybody you meet.”

Meyers does not regret leaving that life behind, calling the moment they got caught “the end of a certain life I had. He and Scurlock were like “two comets” that started out “flying through the f-cking universe and suddenly boom,” he says. “It’s all busted up in one second. It’s gone.”

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Time – https://time.com/6985630/how-to-rob-a-bank-netflix-true-story/

Tags: Netflix'snewstells
Previous Post

Hong Kong Tells Residents to ‘Smile More’ as Government Tries to Revive Declining Tourism

Next Post

Stop Counting Screen Time

Fusobacterium nucleatum : ecology, pathogenesis and clinical implications – Nature

Unveiling Fusobacterium nucleatum: Exploring Its Ecology, Disease Connections, and Health Impact

October 21, 2025
Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code – Science | AAAS

Escherichia coli Engineered with a Revolutionary 57-Codon Genetic Code

October 21, 2025
LOCALIZE IT: Over 420 anti-science bills target public health protections in statehouses across US – newspressnow.com

More Than 420 Anti-Science Bills Jeopardize Public Health Across the Nation

October 21, 2025
Halloween not your thing? Here’s when Christmas at the Newport mansions will start. – The Providence Journal

Not a Halloween Fan? Find Out When Christmas Magic Begins at the Newport Mansions!

October 21, 2025
Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

October 21, 2025
UEFA becomes first sporting body to sign up to global anti-piracy coalition – The New York Times

UEFA Takes the Lead as First Sports Organization to Join Global Anti-Piracy Coalition

October 21, 2025
The lover’s guide to the 2025 World Series – The New York Times

Your Ultimate Lover’s Guide to the 2025 World Series

October 21, 2025
Rethinking Growth In A Broadening Economy – Seeking Alpha

Unlocking Success: New Insights for Thriving in a Booming Economy

October 21, 2025
Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

October 21, 2025
Study suggests earlier start of hormone therapy optimizes long-term health outcomes – News-Medical

Starting Hormone Therapy Sooner May Boost Long-Term Health Benefits

October 21, 2025

Categories

Archives

October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (879)
  • Economy (900)
  • Entertainment (21,771)
  • General (17,724)
  • Health (9,941)
  • Lifestyle (913)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (901)
  • Politics (910)
  • Science (16,111)
  • Sports (21,400)
  • Technology (15,880)
  • World (883)

Recent News

Fusobacterium nucleatum : ecology, pathogenesis and clinical implications – Nature

Unveiling Fusobacterium nucleatum: Exploring Its Ecology, Disease Connections, and Health Impact

October 21, 2025
Escherichia coli with a 57-codon genetic code – Science | AAAS

Escherichia coli Engineered with a Revolutionary 57-Codon Genetic Code

October 21, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version