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A rip current statement in effect for Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami Dade Regions

SUNILAND FBI SHOOTOUT


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Episode Five: Putting the pieces together

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"I had been in robbery for 10 years by then and there were a lot of armored car and bank robberies," he recalls. One of the things we talked about was how armored car robbers and bank robbers are so different. And it was unusual -- in fact, it almost unheard of -- for armored car robbers to rob banks and vice versa. On the other hand, armored car robbers are lunatics. Tony Monheim and detectives spent 18 months trying to figure out who was behind the series of armored car and bank robberies.

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Episode Four: Who killed Patty Matix?

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William Matix for one, his wife, Patricia, was murdered two and a half years ago in Columbus, Ohio. Patty Matix is working at her job at a cancer research lab at Riverside Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. "We have a chapter about the FBI shootout, but we really emphasize the murder of Joyce McFadden and Patty Matix," Meyers says. "There they find the body of Patty Matix," Meyers says. I call the Columbus Police Department's homicide cold case squad and ask them what the status of Patty Matix and Joyce McFadden's case is.

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Episode Three: Aftermath of bloodiest day in FBI history

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In the days after the bloodiest shootout in FBI history, there are questions. FBI agents trying to stop the violence and did, but it claimed two of their own." The FBI agents have only shotguns and revolvers. "He's the reluctant hero, FBI Agent Edmundo Mireles leaving South Miami Hospital for home," Candiotti reports. "That day was a day that changed not just the FBI, but all of American law enforcement," Comey says.

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Episode Two: Shots fired, agents down

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After a short chase, the suspects were surrounded here by seven FBI agents. Yellow was the color of the plastic sheets that covered the two FBI agents, who lay dead in the shade of a black olive tree. The body of one of the FBI agents killed in the 1986 shootout is partially covered by a yellow tarp. While canvassing the area on surveillance, FBI agents spot them driving a stolen car that that they had used in at least one bank robbery. At that point, a confrontation ensued, shot were fired, which resulted in the killing of the two individuals that were pulled over by the agents, the killing of two FBI agents and the wounding of five other agents ... two of them superficially."

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Episode One: April 11, 1986: The bloodiest day in FBI history

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The Pinecrest Village Council dedicated this portion of Southwest 82 Avenue on 15th day of May 2001 in memory of these two FBI agents who gave their lives in the line of duty during a gun battle at this site on April 11, 1986." Grogan tells dispatch, "They are making a right turn on 117th Street, right on 117th." As the cars speed down 82nd Avenue, Manauzzi slams the driver's side of the robbers' car. The body of one of the FBI agents killed in the 1986 shootout is partially covered by a yellow tarp. In this case, the FBI is outgunned, too, and it would change how the FBI arms its officers from that day forward.

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