The Murderers Who Couldn’t Stop Bragging — True Crime
When the criminals can’t stop talking, others are going to speak to the police about them.
Noel, Missouri
On the night of October 5, 1989, bank president Dan Short was at home entertaining a guest until around 11 pm. His attackers would arrive a little later and take him by gunpoint to the bank.
Dan, along with his abductors, arrived around 2 am at the bank, where Dan turned off the alarm and opened the vault, where they took $70,000 in cash.
There was an additional $100,000 in cash that Dan knew about, but the robbers didn’t since it was left behind.
The robbers took out all of the security cameras. Witnesses had heard shots around 3 am.
Shortly after this, a trucker saw three vehicles following closely together, Dan’s pickup truck, a blue pickup, and a brown van.
They ditched Dan’s pickup and put him in the back fo the van. They tied him to a kitchen chair with duct tape and attached weights to the chair.
Dan was unconscious but alive when they threw the chair into the Grand Lake.
Robbery Detected
Around 8 am on October 6, employees at the bank would make the discovery that they had been robbed. When…
