It was chockfull of cash to keep ATMs going over the weekend. when the armored van driven by the woman in the dress shoes pulled up to the Circus Circus, the first of the Friday stops. At the time, we just thought maybe she was going out to dinner or something after work and needed to get changed quick. And that particular morning, she had a dressier shoe on. She would wear more of a rugged work boot-type thing because she knew she was either gonna be on her feet all day or driving all day. Keith Morrison: Do you remember anything unusual about that particular day?Stewart: The shoes that she was wearing, they weren’t the normal shoe that she would wear to work. With them was a relatively new driver - a 5 foot 10 inch beauty named Heather Tallchief. It filled from about a third of the way from the front of the vehicle all the way to the back.
Keith Morrison, Dateline correspondent: How much money was in the back of that truck?Scott Stewart, then-Loomis courier: Approximately 3.1 million.
Courier Scott Stewart and a partner jumped into the back of a Loomis armored truck loaded with weekend cash for casino ATMs. The tale begins on October 1, 1993, a Friday. It was a story of sex, magic, money and murder that made the movies look tame.Īnd over ten years later, the story isn’t over. It was over before most gamblers there were even awake: It was a perfect crime in broad daylight, pulled off by a mysterious woman.