The Acupuncturist the FBI Hunted for 4 Years After the Brink's Murders

On October 20th, 1981, armed men ambushed a Brink's armored truck outside a New York mall, stealing $1.6 million and killing a guard. Within the hour, two police officers who stopped the getaway truck were gunned down at a highway ramp.
The robbery was carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and the May 19th Communist Organization. Investigators broke the case with a license plate, an alert college student, and a trail of apartments — but the man prosecutors called the ringleader, Mutulu Shakur, stayed hidden for more than four years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
This episode traces the robbery, the manhunt, and the trials that followed, and remembers the three men who never went home.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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