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Fast Eddie Watkins Reflects On a Life of Bank Robberies
In a jailhouse interview, 62 year old Eddie Watkins known as the Smiling Bandit and Fast Eddie talks of nearly two million dollars stolen in 60 plus bank jobs and 125 other heists since the 1930s. He is jailed in Cleveland on two bank robbery counts awaiting possible extradition.
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