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An armored car vanished during a routine stop. Carrying nearly a million dollars, it was [music] supposed to be impenetrable. Investigators didn't know if the driver was involved or if he had been ambushed. FBI agents and local detectives began to suspect a group of former law officers in the heist. It would take determination and high-tech knowledge to track the robbers and make them pay for their silent strike. [music] [music] Money may not be the root of all evil, but for some men, a million dollars is enough to justify murder. Even men sworn to uphold the law can sometimes be tempted. I'm Jim Kalstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office. When robbery turned to murder, the FBI would discover that a killer might be among them. The Arrowhead Mall, Glendale, Arizona. November 28th, 1994. [music] At 1:30 p.m., a van pulled up outside a department store at the mall. [music] It was an unmarked, fully armored Wells Fargo vehicle. Several companies use these customized vans since they are less conspicuous targets for robbery. Following company protocol, the driver remained inside the van while the courier went to pick up cash from the store. The van was bulletproof, and its doors could not be forced open from the outside. Inside the department store office, the courier exchanged empty bags for those filled with the weekend's receipts. It was the Monday after Thanksgiving. [music] The cash pickup followed the busiest shopping weekend of the year. When the courier [music] returned to the parking lot minutes later, the armored van and the driver [music] were gone. He notified police immediately. The 911 call came to the Glendale, Arizona Police Department. They dispatched units to the scene and sent word to the FBI. The nearest FBI field office is in Phoenix, 20 miles from the mall. Because the money in the van was federally insured, the FBI opened a case. Agents headed out to the scene. Glendale detectives arrived at the mall first. They began interviewing the courier. He said he had been gone only 4 minutes when he discovered the van and his partner, John McGosh, had disappeared. The courier estimated the amount of cash, checks, and coins in the van to be just over a million dollars. Detectives interviewed others at the mall. None reported seeing or hearing anything unusual. FBI agents soon arrived from Phoenix. Evidence technicians had processed the area. Where the van had been parked, they found a cigarette butt and a pair of broken eyeglasses. The courier confirmed that his partner was a smoker. And said the glasses looked like those McGosh needed when he drove. The technicians collected [music] and marked the items as evidence. Detective Tom Clayton is a senior investigator for the Glendale Police Department. I think the first thought when we saw the van missing was the driver took off with the money and and was going to leave town. We also considered somebody could have robbed him. With the glasses laying there, we weren't sure if it's you know, was it a set up or did something really happen? We explored every possibility we could think of. Supervisory Special Agent Stephen Chenoweth, now retired, [music] was the lead for the FBI. The investigators organized a search for the van and its driver, believing that whoever took the van would abandon it soon in favor of a getaway car. They dispatched some officers to begin a ground search around the mall. Pilots from the Arizona Department of Public Safety conducted an aerial search. The DPS officers began at the mall, then widened their search in concentric circles, looking for the van in the surrounding neighborhoods. Whenever they spotted a white van, they radioed ground units to follow up. Special Agent Chenoweth and the others knew most armored car robbers are inside jobs or armed ambushes. Witnesses hadn't heard shooting. Perhaps the driver had decided to trade his hourly wage for a million dollars. And certainly, the van is supposed to be uh locked and the driver inside, and therefore unaccessible. Um the fact that the van is missing would lead us to initially uh at least think about the possibility of the guard driver being involved. Investigators sought more information on the missing driver. We investigated John McGosh. First off, we started running his name in the computer to see if we could find any arrests or if if he had a criminal history. Uh we started to the Wells Fargo file, his employment file, looking for relatives, friends, where he lived. After securing a search warrant, investigators traveled to his apartment. His landlady let them in. The investigators were looking for evidence that McGosh had planned the robbery. [music] The apartment appeared undisturbed. Nothing indicated he had planned the robbery [music] or that he was ready to leave town. Do you know who this is? Yes. That is Lisa Johnson. Detectives learned that McGosh had a daughter living nearby in Phoenix. Determining her address through DMV records, they went to her apartment. McGosh's daughter described her father as honest and stable. He took his job seriously. Police found others who said the same. McGosh had no criminal record. Detectives began to consider the 61-year-old grandfather not as a suspect, but as a victim. John McGosh had a good reputation. We talked to family, friends, relatives, co-workers. He was a a person that did not have a lot of requirements in life. Money wasn't a big concern. Uh based on the background we did on him, we didn't believe he was going to be involved in the crime. With McGosh eliminated as a suspect, the investigators were back to square one. They needed the public's help. And certainly when you don't have eyewitnesses, you you try and put as much information out uh in the form of press releases, um newspaper articles, um uh things of this nature in hopes that it would reach somebody that maybe saw something that otherwise had not heard about it. That afternoon, the FBI and Glendale Police held a press conference. on bank heist outside the mall earlier. They released photos and [music] descriptions of the missing van and driver. As of yet, we have very little Anyone who had [music] seen John McGosh or the Wells Fargo van was asked to contact the FBI. [music] investigation without assistance A reward of $60,000 was posted for [music] any tip leading to the recovery of the money and the conviction of those involved. anyone who may know where the van is at this point. Hours later, a 911 call came in from a church in Sun City, [music] Arizona just outside Glendale. The caller reported a van idling in the church's parking lot. [music] Parishioners arriving for a Monday night bingo game noticed the van, which fit [music] the description in the news reports. License plates and serial numbers confirmed it was the van missing from the mall. Investigators approached cautiously, not knowing who or what was inside. [music] No one was in the driver's seat. But investigators could see the outline of a body on the floor. They tried to open the van. But the armored vehicle was impenetrable even to the agents. Uh the engine was going. It was locked. And uh cursory examination initially of the inside disclosed the uh body lying in the center. Uh in order to gain access to the van, of course, we had to call the armored car company. No one at the church had seen who left the van. Or what [music] vehicle they used to get away. Checking the body through the window, police could see blood on the chest near a Wells [music] Fargo badge. There was no sign of breathing. Authorities [music] believed John McGash had been killed during the robbery. There were no bullet marks on the van's exterior. No broken glass. And no sign of forced entry at the doors. Whoever had hit the van knew what they were doing. An armored car robbery is a pretty sophisticated uh crime. And it takes a lot of uh detailed planning. And so, uh we knew after finding the van and finding the body that we were up against probably some people who had uh thought this out very well, planned it uh extensively, and certainly uh would not stop at murder in in carrying this out. Investigators needed to get inside the van to know what happened. On November 28th, 1994, the FBI and Glendale, Arizona police investigated an armored van hijacked from a mall and abandoned in a church parking lot in nearby Sun City. The driver, 61-year-old John McGosh, lay dead in the cab. He had been shot once in the head, but his death was not instantaneous. Technicians noted aspirated blood [music] spatter, indicating McGosh had continued breathing after being shot. Technicians [music] lifted many latent prints from money cabinets in the van's interior. These would be compared to known prints of employees. No foreign prints were found. No hairs or fibers pointed toward a suspect, either. Inside the van, investigators found $132,000 in coins. The cash and checks, estimated at $920,000, were gone. The details of the crime suggested that there had been several violent criminals, according to Special Agent Steven Chenoweth. After looking at uh the van, um we knew that we were probably dealing with certainly more than one person because this would be very difficult for one person to accomplish. So, So, knew we were looking probably at least two or more. And uh very vicious and violent people who certainly would not stop at anything in order to um obtain their goals, which was the money located inside the van. To Glendale detective Tom Clayton, the placement of the van outside Glendale city [music] limits spoke to the criminal's understanding of police procedure. We believed they dumped the van in Sun City to get it out of our jurisdiction into another one to complicate the investigation and communication of police agencies. Uh the maybe hoping we would not be able to link the two things together right away. During the autopsy of [music] the armored car driver, the medical examiner retrieved several small bullet fragments from the left side of the victim's head. The fragments were too damaged to determine the make of the murder weapon. It seemed like a small caliber, perhaps a .22. The medical examiner found no powder burns on the victim's head. This meant he had been shot from a distance. Magasha's partner [music] said the driver often smoked a cigarette while waiting in the van. Though it was against company policy, he usually opened his door to let the smoke out. Investigators believed the killers knew this and shot him when he opened the door. Because of his experience tracking down elusive criminals, now retired FBI special agent Ron Myers was transferred from the fugitive task force to work the case. From the beginning, he knew they were not hunting amateurs. One of the things they did that made us think that they were professionals was the manner in which they did the robbery. They picked an isolated part of the shopping center where not many people parked, where there wouldn't be many witnesses. They drove through the type of neighborhoods where there weren't many people out during the day, and they picked an empty parking lot of a church that had no one at it during the day. Go right in here, sir. Investigators received dozens of calls to their tip line. One [music] witness came forward claiming to have some information that might be helpful. He said he had seen a white van quickly leaving the mall at the time in question. A red pickup truck followed not far behind. But he wasn't sure if the two vehicles were together. Investigators were frustrated that no one saw the actual ambush at the mall. We couldn't find any eyewitnesses. And when you don't really know what happened, or you don't have somebody that can tell you uh what may be transpired with the van, um it's a mystery. With no other solid leads, investigators canvassed the neighborhoods between the mall and the church. Perhaps someone there had witnessed something. Edward Morgan a resident of Sun City, recalled that he had seen the van. On the afternoon of November 28th, Mr. Morgan was returning from the post office when he noticed the van. And Mr. Morgan stopped because he thought they weren't going to stop for the stop sign and was afraid he'd be hit. At that time, he noticed a white van with this red truck shortly behind it, both speeding through the intersection and driving off. And he thought that was kind of unusual, not only the way they were driving, but the way that the red truck seemed to be following the white van. I think they were doing Mr. Morgan couldn't recall details of license plates or the face of the van's passenger. Desperate for a break, investigators wanted to place him under hypnosis to jog his memory. Morgan agreed to travel [music] to Texas with the investigators. Mr. Morgan, you should be feeling very There they met with a forensic hypnotist. Perhaps under hypnosis, the witness could remember [music] more details about the incident. Statements made under hypnosis [music] cannot be used in court, but some police agencies find it to be a helpful investigative tool. Under hypnosis, Morgan returned to the [music] events of November 28th. He recalled the white van and the man in the passenger seat. Investigators now believe there were at least three people involved in the heist, two in the van and one in the red truck. When asked about the truck's license plate, Morgan was able to remember a portion. 2 3 7 Very good. It wasn't much, but it gave investigators a start. [music] We were had to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles to run all combinations of those license numbers, and that produced several hundred possible vehicles because Arizona does not have color on their motor vehicle registration. So, we knew we were looking for a particular type of truck, but from looking at the motor vehicle registrations, we didn't know what color they were on the registration, which meant we had to do uh uh interviews of everybody on the list. Investigators eventually tracked down hundreds of truck owners. Each was interviewed, but no suspect emerged. With his refreshed [music] memory of the van's passenger, Morgan worked with a police sketch artist. There was no guarantee that the details recalled [music] through hypnosis were accurate, but authorities were ready to try almost anything. The FBI released the drawing to the media. For nearly a month now, police and FBI have The FBI and Glendale, Arizona, police believe three men were involved in the robbery homicide. Yet, [music] as the end of 1994 approached, they still didn't have suspects. It began to look like the killers might never be found. But the investigators [music] did not know that the suspect in the composite sketch had been recognized. By December of 1994, a month after the deadly hijacking of an armored car in Glendale, Arizona, the investigation had stalled. Investigators believed at least three people pulled off the heist. They had a composite sketch of one and little else. Then, on December 31st, [music] the investigators received a call. A Mesa, Arizona detective had been told that a local woman had information about the crime. A background check showed that the woman had a suspended license. This would make it easy to bring her in for questioning without arousing suspicions. The FBI asked local law enforcement to pick her up on the suspended license charge. The investigators [music] asked the woman if she knew anything about the armored car robbery in Glendale. She claimed that she didn't have any real information, [music] but she knew someone who did. She told investigators [music] that her friend, Judy Espinosa, had talked to her after the news reports of the robbery. Espinosa suspected that her boyfriend might [music] have been involved. The woman told the investigators where Espinosa worked. The investigators spoke with Espinosa. They asked her about the robbery, reminding her that interfering with a federal investigation was itself a crime. She agreed to answer their questions. She explained that her boyfriend, James Greenham, who went by the nickname Yoda, had asked her what she would do if he held up an armored car and suddenly had a lot of money. She told FBI Special agent Ron Myers that Greenham sometimes worked as a bounty hunter and was usually broke. Jim never had a dime, but the day of the robbery, he came home that night, told her he had to kill somebody, and he had plenty of cash on his person. She told us that Jim did his bounty hunting with a guy named Tim Ring and that she had been over to Tim Ring's house and noticed several new all terrain vehicles, jet skis, a new motorcycle, and Tim had made a comment about how she'd never know how much money was in that garage. The information was good, but it was only hearsay. Investigators [music] needed more solid evidence. Espinosa had kept several rolls of coins that Greenham had given her. The wrappers were consistent [music] with those used by merchants on the armored van's route. More than a month after the crime, the investigators finally had names. They looked into the [music] two suspects' backgrounds. FBI special agent Stephen Chenoweth [music] was familiar with the name of one of the men. Tim Ring had been used as an informant in other FBI cases. We had paid him for some information that he had furnished us in the past and you know, in order for us to get information from informants, you aren't dealing with priests and and with you know, you know, good people. You're dealing with bad guys out there and Ring's a bad guy. And when you're ready, focused, squeeze the trigger. Tim Ring and James Greenham had worked as prison guards in Phoenix and now worked [music] bounty hunter jobs together. Front sight, back sight, or through the cross hairs? Both had many hours of firearms training. Any questions? Okay, Joe. Ring was an [music] expert marksman. Fire when ready. Pursuing bounty hunters would be dangerous. The fact that these suspects had law enforcement training in their background made the case pretty difficult. For one, they would be schooled in surveillance techniques. If they were looking for somebody following them, they'd know what to look for. They'd know what to to expect anybody following them to do. So, we had to be very cautious when we were following them around. The FBI and Glendale police began 24-hour ground and air surveillance. They had to be covert. You know, if they're looking for air surveillance, they're looking up, you know. Well, we're way over here, cuz we can't see anything if we're right up here. So, we're way over here, way over here. The agents wanted to see how the pair earned money, and how much they spent. At the time that we were following Mr. Greenham and Mr. Ring around, neither one was gainfully employed that we could tell. They had no income coming in from any legitimate sources, yet we observed them spending a lot of money. Ring overhauled his truck, and Greenham got a new apartment. How you doing? Both bought motorcycles. Agents tracked [music] their purchases. It seemed the suspects did not exceed a certain level in order [music] to avoid the attention of the Internal Revenue Service. Okay. And they always seem to be careful whenever they spent their money to stay under the $10,000 limit, knowing that if they spent more than that in cash, the expenditure would be reported by the businesses to the IRS. Investigators [music] continued tailing Ring and Greenham building a list of associates. They photographed everyone the suspects met. They still didn't know who the third partner was. Glendale detective Tom Clayton hoped surveillance would spot the three meeting somewhere. We would watch them go to restaurants where they would meet. We would see them go to strip clubs where they met a couple dancers that they knew. Everywhere they went, the suspects spent a lot of cash unaware that investigators were watching. Circumstantial evidence linked them to the robbery and homicide. But the FBI and Glendale police still didn't know exactly what had happened and who else was involved. Somehow, the investigators had to get [music] inside the bounty hunter's shadowy world. As the FBI and Glendale, Arizona police continued to investigate a deadly armored car heist, they got a tip from an associate of their two main suspects. Bounty hunter Michael Sanders said that he had cased armored cars with two other men. He believed those men did the Glendale hit without him. Angry at being cut out of the deal, he decided to talk. He gave FBI special agent Ron Myers a lead on the third perpetrator. Sanders came forward to tell us that he thought that Tim Ring and Jim Greenham were involved in this armored car robbery and that an ex-Phoenix police officer named Fergie, who worked for camera shop in the Paradise Valley Mall, might be the third man. Investigators needed [music] to identify Fergie. They reviewed their case photos. Surveillance teams had watched Ring and Greenham meeting with a bearded man who drove a Camaro. The car was registered [music] to William Ferguson. Since Sanders said Fergie was an ex-cop, Glendale detective Tom Clayton checked the personnel records of the Phoenix Police Department. As we investigated William Ferguson's background, we found he retired at 20 years from the Phoenix Police Department and his retirement was precipitated by some disciplinary problems. Investigators began surveillance [music] on Ferguson. They saw that the ex-cop met often with the other suspects and was also spending a lot of cash. Agents [music] believed they had identified the three men responsible for the robbery and murder. The investigation was affected by the three suspects having law enforcement training because we knew that they were going to cover evidence and they were also known to have firearms training which made them dangerous to the surveillance officers. Detectives and agents needed evidence linking the men to the crime. During surveillance, they began trash pulls, confiscating trash bags from the suspects [music] in the hopes that some clues might surface. FBI technicians examined the trash. In Rings, [music] they found several 3 by 5 index cards. Each card had notes detailing armored car routes. Analysis confirmed the handwriting [music] was Rings. But investigators needed more. [music] They wanted tapes [music] of the suspects discussing the crime. All three men had keys [music] to James Greenham's apartment. FBI special agent Stephen Chenoweth believed they used the apartment as headquarters. Timothy Ring was married, [music] had a wife, children, and I think the likelihood of of discussions occurring in regards to this armored car robbery at his house were somewhat remote, but we felt that they were occurring at Greenham's residence. So, that was the impetus for which we decided to go ahead and proceed and place a listening device inside the apartment of of Greenham. Special agent Myers was part of the team that entered the apartment to place the bug. When we opened the door to go in an alarm went off immediately, at which point we shut the door and exited the area. We had to come back at a later time with an expert in alarms. And [laughter] when we went in the door that time, we learned that it was just a real simple um motion detector sitting on top of the refrigerator, and all we had to do was just flip the off switch. Wasn't anything sophisticated at all. While the team was inside Greenham's apartment, the detective surveilling [music] Tim Ring saw him leave his house. Ring owned a red truck like the one reportedly seen following the van. The detective trailed behind Ring. After a few turns, he realized where the suspect [music] was headed. Agents were still in the apartment. Tim Ring was headed that way. Ring often went to Greenham's place even when Greenham was out. If he went to the apartment, he would interrupt the planting of the bug. The team inside needed more time. I'll pull him over and hold him until you get here. The detective called in a uniformed officer to stop Ring for speeding. [screaming] Anything to delay the suspect. Good evening, sir. Good evening, officer. What's the problem? The officer lectured Ring on the dangers of speeding. Detectives wanted to keep him busy while the team finished at the apartment. Let's go, gang. They're on their way over. Okay. Put everything away. Let's get this thing back. They made it out just before Ring arrived. Investigators also tapped the home and cellular phones of the two other [music] suspects. To get them talking, Supervisory Special Agent [music] Steven Chenoweth released false information about the case. We decided to make a press release um talking about the investigation, which we thought when they would hear would certainly generate some uh telephone conversations and and other discussions amongst these three suspects. Hey. And it did have its desired effect in that they did talk um about the information that we released and how accurate they thought it was and whether or not uh we were on the the right trail and and uh and whether or not uh they thought we were getting close to them. As the suspects [music] talked, the investigators listened. We didn't get an actual confession where they said, "I did the armored car robbery." What we got were several conversations among themselves about different aspects of the case. They would always listen to the news, follow any uh printed reports, or follow any television stories. And as soon as anything would appear on TV, they'd call each other, and they'd make comments like, "Well, this isn't the way it happened. You know, they'll never find that license plate." The evidence against the suspects was building. you seen Judy lately? But prosecutors wanted more direct statements [music] about the crime Not yet. before they ordered arrests. Investigators provoked [music] the suspects one more time. A Glendale detective went to James Greenam's apartment when the suspect was out. On the door, [music] he left his business card with the note lead 173. Investigators watched [music] Greenam's response to the card. He knew what the note meant. The authorities considered him a lead. Greenam became distraught. He sped away from his apartment calling Tim Ring on [music] his cell phone. Agents kept watch from an airplane and listened in on the phone taps. Hey Tim, man. Listen. Greenam drove out into the desert before stopping. card in my door. Look, man, they ain't got nothing on you. Don't worry about it. Ring tried [music] to calm Greenam down promising that the authorities had nothing on them. They're playing Don't [music] worry about it. This is But Greenam said he was scared. I can't do this anymore. He even threatened to commit suicide. Chuck. Finally, Ring talked Greenam down, convincing him the authorities were not on to them. But if I see one more cop Greenam said that if another cop contacted him, he was going to bury the money. It seemed a direct reference to the crime. 7:40 Investigators felt they finally had enough evidence. 7th Avenue, continue to search warrant now. They sent units to arrest Greenam and Ferguson. Jim Greenam was arrested by one team. William Ferguson was arrested by another and attempted to resist arrest, but was quickly subdued. Tim Ring was lured down to the FBI office on the premise of looking at some photographs because Ring had previously offered to help the FBI try to find who these people were, which we believe was an effort on his part to try and find out what we knew. The FBI [music] agent who had previously used Ring as an informant called the suspect. Ring agreed to come in. On February 16th, 1995, [music] Tim Ring arrived at the Phoenix FBI field office. Undercover agents were waiting for him in the lobby. They believed he would not be armed at the FBI office, but they couldn't be positive. To ensure their safety, [music] they needed to surprise him. We had two big burly defensive tactics instructors, one of which was a guy with 25 years of martial arts expertise who came up blocked him in the head knocked him down like a sack of potatoes before he knew what what he was doing. All three suspects were off the streets. Now investigators [music] needed physical evidence to make sure the prosecutions were successful. On February [music] 16th, 1995, after arresting three men for an armored car robbery and murder, FBI agents and Glendale, Arizona detectives searched the suspects' residences. At the house [music] of Tim Ring, suspected leader of the three, they found important evidence. Investigators recovered a note marked with the [music] initials F, Y, and T. Each initial had a number beneath. serial numbers from the The numbers [music] added up to the amount of cash taken from the armored car. Agents believed F stood for Ferney, Y for Greenham's [music] nickname Yoda, and T for Tim. It was the worksheet the three used to divide the money. In the garage, investigators found a red pickup truck that resembled [music] the vehicle seen by witness Edward Morgan in Sun City. The license plate number, however, did not match the ones Morgan recalled under forensic hypnosis. Ring kept several weapons and plenty of ammunition at his house. In a duffel bag, agents also recovered $270,000 in cash. Another 64,000 was found in Ferguson's house. We need to count all of it. Nearly 600,000 in cash had been stolen. Noting the money spent by the suspects, investigators found [music] that about $100,000 was unaccounted for. The case against the three [music] suspects seemed solid. FBI special agent Ron Myers hoped the evidence might get one of them to roll. We finally got first-hand information about this crime when Jim Greenam decided to cooperate. Jim Greenam was the only one of the three of them that showed any remorse about what they had done, about how they had killed this driver. Jim decided to cooperate. He told us what happened. He told us all the parts that these individuals played in the the robbery. Greenam met with the investigators and explained [music] that the planning started in the fall of 1994. First night, just watched when Tim Ring had the idea to hit an armored car. What's crazy about the fact that he was going to kill him? What were you planning on doing? So, they began to case Wells Fargo vehicles. They drove around Glendale following different trucks and vans on their routes. What do you suggest we do with the money? Then they zeroed in on the van driven by John McGosh. Tailing it for days. They managed to observe this one particular armored car making several stops and they noticed that every time the messenger would get out to make a delivery, the driver would open the door about 8 inches to smoke and blow the smoke out the side of the door. They observed the driver at several stops and they noticed this one particular stop on the back side of a shopping center and noticed that he always parked in the same position. 94. Tim Ring On November 28th, 1994, the Monday after Thanksgiving, a day they were sure a lot of money would be in the van. They were ready to strike. [music] James Greenham [music] and William Ferguson waited unnoticed by the store. They watched until the courier was out of sight. As if on schedule, Magosh opened the door to smoke. Tim Ring was parked 50 ft away, a stolen license plate on his truck. The expert marksman had a silencer on his .22 caliber rifle, so no one would hear the shot. He aimed through the opening and fired once. The force must have knocked Magosh's glasses to the ground. With the driver down, the van was unprotected. No one noticed the vehicle speeding away. They drove to the church parking lot. It would be empty at that time of day. They transferred the money and checks to the pickup. They knew authorities would be searching for the van. They left most of the coins [music] and went to destroy the checks and other evidence, according to Detective Tom Clayton. They they loaded the money into Tim Ring's truck and drove out in the desert where they separated the money, changed clothes, and burned all the evidence. We buried the license plate. Greenham said they buried the burned evidence and stolen [music] license plate in the desert. And you can take us to where the plates are buried? Yeah. Special Agent Stephen Chenowith wondered if it was the plate witnessed by Edward Morgan. Uh we went out there and actually found the location and then dug it up and found that the uh three numbers actually on the plate did in fact match those that were given to us by Mr. Morgan. So, he was actually right on on his information. James Greenham pled guilty to second-degree murder [music] and armed robbery and is serving 27 and 1/2 years. William Ferguson pled guilty to armed robbery and accessory after [music] the fact and is doing 17 years. On December 6, 1996, [music] Tim Ring was found guilty of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and burglary. Anytime that you have somebody um actually assassinate uh a driver like this, um it's a very heinous crime and you certainly want to expend all of your resources in an effort to identify the people involved and and uh and put them behind bars. For his crimes, Ring received the death penalty. He currently awaits execution at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. Here you go.
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