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    How do massive robberies go from perfect crimes to messy busts? Explore the stories behind the Loomis Fargo heist and other infamous vault scores.

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    You can have the keys to the vault, you can have the getaway car, but if you can't control your own impulses afterward, the money is just a countdown to your arrest.

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