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Gilbert William Galvan Jr. (born c. 1957) [1] is an American bank robber. Having spent many of his adult years in prison, Galvan fled to Canada where he assumed the name Robert Lee Whiteman and began a three-year spree robbing banks and jewelry stores in the 1980s.
Sep 30, 2023 · Gilbert Galvan Jr died in 1979 at age 58 in a Wisconsin prison hospital, where he was serving time for parole violations. But even decades after his death, Galvan‘s legend as the Flying Bandit remains alive and well in Canada.
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Sep 10, 2022 · We pit the Bandit movie vs. the true story of bank robber Gilbert Galvan, aka the Flying Bandit. Meet his wife and see robbery photos of him as his alias, Robert Whiteman.
Gary Mark Gilmore (born Faye Robert Coffman; December 4, 1940 – January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he had admitted to committing in Utah.
Sep 23, 2022 · In 1985, Gilbert Galvan Jr (Josh Duhamel), a charming career criminal, escapes from a US prison in Michigan and crosses the border into Canada where he assumes the identity Robert Whiteman. After falling in love with Andrea (Elisha Cuthbert), a caring social worker he can’t provide for, he turns to robbing banks and discovers that he’s ...
May 15, 2015 · The man once notorious as the “Flying Bandit” — named after slipping out of prison and robbing 59 banks and jewelry stores from Vancouver to Halifax — has lost his touch: Gilbert Galvan was...
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Sep 21, 2022 · The second was Gilbert Galvan Jr., an American who escaped from a Michigan jail into Canada in 1985, In the next three years, he robbed a record string of 59 banks and jewelry stores across the country, often flying into town for the afternoon to commit his crime.
