tonight on "20/20" p it's not quite the game from "oceans eleven." >> i have run across the few. >> reporter: how one lun likely family trio took the money and drove and kept driving for ten full years. taking banks, the federal reserve. even the fbi on a wild goose chase. >> they got away with it. >> reporter: $4 million snatched from under their noses. time after time after time. >> it was an inside job. a family job. >> a string of robberies. >> reporter: no high tech gadgets. just a fake fidel castro beard.

some sketchy 911 calls and some crazy hiding places for those millions. >> so weird. >> reporter: but they have got a cool $4 million stashed away, why are they living in 900 square feet of this? tonight, we're tracking them down for answers. >> what do you want to know? >> reporter: the wife who knew more than she said. >> you're hard to find. just a few minneapolis of your time. >> reporter: the son with daddy issues. and who is that mystery man on the motorcycle? >> they said, what drives? >> reporter: in this game of catch me if you can, will they turn on each other, first? >> he's talking all of us down, dad. >> ooh. >> reporter: the family business. good evening, i'm elizabeth vargas. david is away. this gives an all new meaning to the term, crime family. this is just your average

everyday family with one flaw. they prefer stealing money to actually earning it, and tonight, we're taking you inside that outrageous case ten years in the making, and miles all spent chasing down three family members who it turns out are hiding in plain sight. here's david wright with a different kind of family business. >> reporter: milwaukee, wisconsin. a city with a rich beer history, and where industry. he is grinding it out as a truck driver, and making 6 bucks an hou hour. 48 years old. that's her. the chain smoker pumping away. they have been together since she was a teenager. >> one thing was clear.

he loves his wife. >> reporter: archie also loves money, but he hates to work according to veteran journalist, dri brian dennison. >> he would have been great if he would have gone to college. he is a smart guy. >> reporter: smart enough to figure out a shortcut to a much more lucrative path. he doesn't just drive any truck. he drives an armored truck, stuffed with cash. you have seen them. double parked as they deliver their precious cargo to stores, banks and atm machines. cold, hard cash. easy money if you can get to it. these things are ft. knox on wheels. tell me about archie. >> what do you want to know? >> reporter: that's an expert in armored car robberies, and archie. >> i was fortunate that i have done cases like this before. >> reporter: it was his job to piece together the cabello

capers years taf fact. >> this is the case everybody likes to avoid. >> for a person who likes to be on that, it was not the case for me. i was just, like, get it done. >> reporter: we retraced archie's steps the day he was due to deliver cash and coin to banks all over milwaukee. >> the people he was assigned with, one had been there on the job for one week, and he had been there for two weeks. he was the senior guy. >> reporter: they take orders from archie. no questions asked. what they don't know is somebody else is also watching their armored truck. every day at a predetermined time, a woman leaves her job at a local cafe, getting into her ordinary car, goes for a drive and then parks. every day, she watches the armored truck, and once it passes, they go their separate days.

same routine day after day after day. today, it's going to be different. today, when the armored truck reaches the corner, the truck driver, archie, hits the hazard lights. and as he turns right, the woman in the car follows him. the truck continues doing its schedule round of pickups and deliveries, and around midday pull sboos this place. a former marine is armed with a gun he knows how to use, but his weapon of choice today, a ball point pen. >> on paperwork he signed for the bag of $157,800 give our take. >> reporter: give or take. he will always choose take. out in a matter of minutes, the group puts the money safely in the truck. it's now break time. >> he ditched the other two people for a bathroom break.

>> reporter: all he needs is a few quick minutes alone with his thoughts and all that money. he pulls around back, and there he meets up with the car that has been quietly tracking his every move. archie makes that bag of cash he picked up at firstar bank, and makes an unusual deposit. >> he puts it in the passenger side window. >> reporter: archie loops back around, and waits for them to come up their break. they are working none the wiser than their load has been lightened. more than $100,000. >> that's cheeky. he is a cheeky guy. but, you know, i think, michael, a lot of folks who make the bulk of their money illegally, he decided he could be cheeky. >> reporter: but the driver of the car is transferring the cash out of a bank bag is into another carryon. at the end of the day, archie will have explaining to do. >> i said, oops.

got lost in the shuffle somehow. pretty big thing. >> $100,000? >> exactly. >> reporter: when his bosses ask, where's the money, his response is as simple as, i don't know. he gets an unintended assist from his co-workers. the crew isn't saying much, primarily they toedon't know mu. >> they take one of them, and the polygraph, and one of them didn't take one. archie didn't take one. >> archie's plan has worked to perfection. he got the money, and he got it with guile instead of a gun. his bosses suspect he was involved, but they can't prove it. >> how is it he wasn't busted then? that's a pretty lame excuse. >> at that time, there wasn't a lot of evidence other than his story. >> reporter: archie gets fired. losing his $30,000 a year job, and one day, he is taking home five times his annual wages so

he'll get over it. >> knob got charnobody got char case. >> they expect the occasional big loss. it's part of the cost of doing business. >> your insurance company will cover the hit. >> reporter: to archie's way of thinking, that makes this almost a victimless crime. and when he gets home, he doesn't even have to explain himself to the misses. it turns out the woman in that unmarked car was his wife, his partner in crime. the luck may not last a lifetime, but not worry. archie's gotten a taste for the action. he is just getting started. his family business, up and running and about to expand. >> he said, i can do it once, i'll do it again. >> reporter: when we come back, the paratrooper assisting archie get caper number two. the theft that will vault the

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"20/20" saturday continues with more of family business. >> reporter: at age 23 vincent cabello, archie's son, is an army paratrooper, stationed at ft. bragg. but this is nothing compared to the fall from grace he's about to take. after an honorable discharge, vincent returns home to wisconsin in 1996. he's served his country proud, but could never seem to make his dad proud. so, when archie concocts a plan for father and son to steal money together, vincent agrees. apparently, in a misguided effort to win his father's affection. dad dragged him into the family business? >> yes. he, in a weird way, worshipped his father and fell into that life. >> reporter: but vincent wasn't some teenager, he was a grown man, just out of the service, right? >> that's true, he was. but i think that he struggled to find acceptance from his father.

>> reporter: archie is not exactly employee of the year materi material. his favorite movie, "thief." >> i'm a thief. >> reporter: but vincent is an american hero. >> when archie told him that he needed vincent's help to be the inside man for the next job that they would do, ever after, vincent was trapped in this cycle. >> reporter: archie circles jobs in newspaper for vincent to apply for. the focus is on banks and casinos and any other place where lots of cash is on hand. largely due to his military background, he eventually lands a job at the american security corporation, guarding the night vault in the basement of this commercial building. the stage set for cabello caper number two.

this time archie is the "outside man." vincent, the "inside man." >> the plan they came up with was, archie would stage a robber, from beginning to end. the basement vault can be seen from the street level, and night after night, archie wanders by, waiting to make eye contact with his son down below. one night in july, they do see things eye-to-eye. vincent gives the signal, and the plan goes into motion. >> and when he got the signal, he went to his car, which was parked in the alley behind the building, he got in his gear. >> reporter: that "gear" includes a disguise. a bushy beard and a baseball cap worn backwards. yellow tinted glasses. and a bb gun. >> and went into the through the receiving area, down a long hallway. he travels down this back alley, and enters through a rear door. it is a long, winding and unmarked corridor, that leads to a doorway, with just a small sign of the company inside. vincent had earlier closed the vault door, like he was supposed to, but purposely not spun the

dial, to lock it. >> if he had truly locked it, nobody would have been able to get in, because the way the security was set up was certain people had the first half of the combo on the spin dial, and certain people had the second half. and he only had one half. >> reporter: the charade begins. archie yells, freeze! and vincent willingly complies, the two of them, performing for the cameras. >> they knew about the video surveillance in the vault area. vincent told his father where it was located. >> reporter: the fbi says archie took that video cassette so there's no surveillance footage of the crime. but they acted it out anyway as a precaution just in case there were other cameras they didn't know about. >> so they acted the whole thing out? >> from beginning to end. it was literally -- >> reporter: stick 'em up? >> exactly. >> reporter: son is hand and leg-cuffed before father makes his way inside the vault, stuffs the money into a bag, and makes his getaway. >> it was a lot of money. i was a new detective.

>> reporter: milwaukee police detective ron laura was one of the first to respond the next morning when vincent is found handcuffed near the vault. he said this subject threatened to blow his head off. but as he presses vincent for details, the story doesn't add up. >> i was a little skeptical of why he wasn't a little bit more shaken up. >> reporter: the detective strongly suspects it was an inside job. especially when he sees the get away route. that winding corridor. >> they would have went through this door, through the freight elevator to get to the first floor to exit the building. once i found out the person utilized this hallway to escape, right away i said somebody who had knowledge of the building had to be involved in this. >> reporter: police detain vincent. but he sticks to his story and doesn't crack. like father, like son. >> secrecy was the key to the overall secrecy.

secrecy, and keeping it tight within the family. >> reporter: granted, the cabello family crimes aren't exactly "ocean's 11." >> there's $160 million behind this door. >> let's get him out! >> yeah. >> reporter: but the money's beginning to add up. just like the armored car heist, what police suspect and what they can prove, turn out to be two different things. >> these cases, they are hard to prove. with vincent standing to his story, we had no probable cause to arrest him. >> reporter: in this robbery alone, $730,000 vanished without a trace. and no one was ever charged. >> archie and vincent took advantage of weak procedures at each of these companies, and they exploited them. and you know, the money's clearly out there, somewhere. >> reporter: but where did the money go? it is a question that haunts the fbi, who suspect the cabellos. but the family seems to be living paycheck to paycheck. one year after the robbery, the felonious family pulls up stakes, and quietly leaves milwaukee, for portland, oregon.

>> so at this point, two robberies, almost a million bucks. $900,000, give or take? >> yes. >> but it's not time for retirement yet. >> no. >> reporter: coming up. caper number three about to be the biggest yet. how much did they get away with? >> $3 million cash. >> $3 million? >> yes. >> reporter: so why are they >> reporter: so why are they livi [crying] ahhhhhhhhhh! the price you see is the price you pay, unlike cable. ♪ strummed guitar you can't experience the canadian rockies through a screen. you have to be here, with us. there's only one way to travel through this natural wonder

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"20/20." >> reporter: by the time the cabello's arrive in the pacific northwest in 1999, they have moved 21 times in 18 years. in archie's line of work, it can be dangerous to grow roots.

>> not necessarily the police, who were after them, but people that archie cabello owed money to or had stolen from. >> he was just looking to ride it out as long as he could so he didn't have to work. >> reporter: and ride it out they do, in northeast portland in this modest $975 a month rental. >> they had never been prosecuted in wisconsin. they moved here unfettered. they kept it anonymously. everything had worked for him. >> reporter: and now it's time to lay low. marion sticking to domestic duties as a housewife, archie, as you see here, enjoying simple trails. vincent working as a bouncer. >> because, remember, archie wanted them all to stay under the radar financially >> reporter: police hear neither hide nor thinning hair of archie for years. to an outside observer, it looks like he's gone straight. especially when, in 2005, he lands a new job in an old profession -- you guessed it,

he's driving an armored truck. this time for a local company called oregon armored services. >> he was pretty quiet, kept to himself. he was a little bit older than most people who worked there. >> reporter: kirk gulian is a former ops manager at oregon armored and remembers archie well. >> archie seemed like a reliable worker. nothing really stood out. >> reporter: archie's responsibilities include making pick-ups and deliveries for banks and local government offices including the u.s. federal reserve. inside this undisclosed and highly secure location, millions upon millions of dollars are

head. >> i understand it was pretty traumatic. did they take any of your bags that are marked? >> they took a couple of bags of money that i could see, but i don't know. i had a lot of money on the truck, they couldn't take it all. >> reporter: within minutes, neighbors, cops, and tv crews are on the scene. >> he was handcuffed to something inside the car. >> he had been here for about 15 minutes, but he was handcuffed and couldn't get to his phone. >> reporter: archie gives authorities a breathless account of what happened. >> archie told me that an armed robber came up to the armored car, displayed his hand gun and said, "open up the door." >> reporter: that's where fbi special agent don metcalf -- a colleague of agent o'connell -- comes in.

archie tells him he's just been robbed. though scour the the neighborho looking for you more than one suspect. >> unknown hair, but he had kind of a fake dark beard on and glasses. >> reporter: police search high and low. but that beard and the fateful decision to open the door, that's got the feds figuring this was an inside

>> reporter: police search high and low, but find no one fitting the description. but that beard, that fateful decision to open the truck door -- they've already got the feds figuring this as an inside job. >> i think right away he knew that he was a potential suspect. that i did not believe his story. >> reporter: was he defensive? >> no. >> reporter: did he ask for a lawyer? >> nope. >> reporter: federal agents and oregon armored begin to break down archie's story piece by piece. >> the truck protection is sufficient enough to handle pistol rounds. >> so in your mind first you go "why did he open the door? the glass is bullet proof, the door is bullet proof. the armored car guys know that. >> reporter: archie has a gun. and his engine is running. but he chooses neither fight or flight. >> just drive off. that's the safest procedure for you. >> reporter: then, there's that gunman. >> he had some kind of fake dark beard on and sunglasses. >> reporter: sound familiar? it should. the description nearly identical to the one vincent cabello used in the milwaukee vault robbery. but when vincent is questioned, he stays true to form. >> his story was, "i don't know nothin' about nothin'." >> reporter: and now, the fbi finds itself with three major cases all involving the same family. which begs the question, "how in the world did archie cabello get another armored truck job in the first place?"

do these guys not do a background check? >> well, they do. ironically enough there was no response until after the robbery. >> reporter: and what was the response then? >> the response was, criminal information found. >> >>er -- archie, i guess, handed his uniform shirt, and id badge and said, "i'm done here." and that was the last we heard from archie in person at all. >> reporter: within weeks, it's clear to everybody what really happened -- archie and vincent staged the whole thing and pulled their biggest job yet. vincent was the robber this time. archie, the inside man. and the loot -- those shrink wrapped bricks of cash. $1.5 million each. gulian was dispatched from oregon armored to take inventory of the truck. >> when we saw it was those two bags we definitely said "oh, [ bleep ]." these are the big bags and if someone's gonna steal something, this is what you're gonna go for. we all knew two weeks after the incident -- archie done it!

there was no question about who had done it. >> reporter: authorities raid the modest cabello home. >> knock on the door, "f.b.i., we have a search warrant." he comes to the door. >> reporter: archie cabello opens the door -- and a can of worms -- with an odd remark. >> he said "my wife didn't have anything to do with it." >> reporter: that sounds like an admission. >> it sounds like an admission. >> reporter: but an admission to what? the cops don't find any stolen cash, and the house is no blinged-out bungalow. in fact, it's barely middle class. archie drives a clunker. wall unit air conditioning, yard-sale quality furniture. heck, they haven't even bothered to upgrade to a flat-screen tv. >> they were prepared for what was comin' and, you know, they handled it well. >> reporter: you have to give the cabellos credit for one thing -- their credit score. the search of the home turns up credit cards everywhere. some even stuffed in archie's boots. >> they had more than 100 credit cards between the three of them. >> we located numerous money order receipts.

>> reporter: that is not the kind of paper the fbi was hoping to find. they are desperate to find the money and they are looking all over the city. >> we went to 125 storage facilities with photographs of both vincent and archie, and with negative response. >> reporter: nobody saw them? >> no one saw them. >> reporter: they didn't find the money. but the fbi comes out of here with a paper trail, money orders, credit card receipts and the whole thing just doesn't pass the smell test. if they had looked closer the agents would have discovered they were really so-called "diversion safes." take a look inside here. rolls of hundreds dollar bills. if it's clear as day that he's your guy, then why is that he wasn't charged? >> the main piece of evidence was missing. the cash. >> reporter: the cat and mouse game between agent and archie ends in a draw.

once again, the feds have their suspicions but not enough hard evidence. >> the conventional means to investigate a crime like this were exhausted and there was just nothing to show for it. >> reporter: cracking the case will require the help of two unlikely characters -- one, a pencil-pushing desk-jockey from the irs. the other, a motorcycle-riding outlaw who knows all the family secrets. >> it's so weird. >> reporter: what she uncovers and what he spills when we come back. >> so right now, we have something you almost never have in a robbery. you know who did it. you know how they did it. you just can't prove it, but you don't know what they did with it. >> that leads to the twitter question right here. where do you think the $4 million are hidden?

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"20/20" saturday continues with family business. >> a major heist that sounds more like a hollywood movie. >> reporter: with a multimillion dollar heist on their hands, the fbi doesn't have enough evidence to arrest the cabellos. >> despite these connections, fbi agents have not made an arrest. >> we didn't catch him red-handed doing anything. >> reporter: hoping to build a case, the prosecutors enlist a new agent, not from the fbi but the irs. the same that brought down al capone. >> i had contacted them and spoke with miranda cole. >> reporter: agent cole, more likely to pack a pocket protector than a pistol -- focuses on that crazy cache of credit cards retrieved from the cabello home. she pores over all the monthly statements, as well as the 620 money order receipts they found in the search.

a process that takes years. a task you might call a tedious nightmare, but that she calls fun. as financial crimes go, was this one a tough one to prove? >> it was a fun one to prove. he was really smart in how he spent his money. he would -- he was renting his house. he had older vehicles. he had credit card expenses, but they weren't extravagant. >> reporter: archie cabello was not exactly living the lifestyles of the rich and famous. but even the low life came with high overhead. so you went through the numbers here, and it didn't add up? >> no, it didn't add up. >> reporter: archie's income was only about $11,000 a year after the oregon robbery, but keeping the family solvent required outlays of more than $250,000 on those credit cards over a four year period. >> they would purchase things on

the credit cards and pay the bills off with these money orders. and, of course, money orders can only be purchased with cash. >> reporter: what would archie buy with those credit cards? >> he had a few little luxuries once in a while, bottles of wine. he joined a cigar club, and would get a box of cigars once a month in the mail. that made him happy. >> reporter: marian had a thing for kitchen appliances and cooking magazines. but what's the point of stealing millions if you're going to live so frugally? the feds say archie was playing a waiting game, counting the days until the five-year statute of limitations on the oregon robbery expired. >> they were definitely doing that. and they thought that, once the statute of limitations expired, they'd be scot-free. >> reporter: pulling that off requires discipline. discipline vincent cabello apparently lacked, when he couldn't resist temptation and bought a flashy hummer with some of the money, sparking a family feud straight out of "goodfellas." >> are you stupid or what? did you hear what i said? don't buy anything. don't get anything. nothing big. didn't you hear what i said? what's the matter with you? >> when vincent bought a hummer, he was furious. i believe that caused some

conflict. >> he paid cash. archie was furious with him for doing that. because archie thought this would draw unwanted attention. >> reporter: to the government, that hummer purchase proved the money was still within archie's reach. >> and that was our mission, really, to find out where the money had come from. >> reporter: the little house was becoming a pressure cooker, strained family bonds to the breaking point. they had to be the most unhappy millionaires ever. >> i think they all thought this money would give them freedom, but in essence, it was just the opposite. >> they were just really miserable. the three of them were really miserable. >> they couldn't do the kinds of things that people had millions tax free, you know, typically do. >> reporter: finally, things came to a head when the feds, worried the clock is about to run out, decide agent cole has found enough evidence, even without the money, to make a case. so they move in. >> we ended up arresting archie. >> only four days.

>> the couple accused of faking a string of aer mrmored car robberies. >> fbi agents say it's an inside come. >> reporter: the news makes it in oregon. and all the way back in milwaukee. >> this is an inside job. >> reporter: coming ufacing a 5 indictment, the cabellos are released pending trial. coming up, two key developments. one that may unlock the missing millions. and one that may lock up archie cabello forever. >> it flabbergasted me. i never expected it. >> she comes back in and says, you're not gonna believe this. you're not gonna believe this. >> reporter: ♪ strummed guitar you can't experience the canadian rockies through a screen. you have to be here, with us. there's only one way to travel through this natural wonder and get a glimpse of amazing. and that's with a glass of wine in one hand, and a camera in the other, aboard rocky mountaineer.

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"20/20" saturday continues with more of "family business." >> reporter: on a recent afternoon, this man pulls a motorcycle into this parking lot, takes off his helmet, and takes some evasive maneuvers to avoid "20/20" cameras. you may not recognize him, but don't let that chrome dome fool you. that's vincent cabello, former army paratrooper, loyal son, and big-time thief. but instead of heading to a prison cell, he's heading into an apartment, toting a trusty six pack. how'd he pull that off? by finally breaking ranks with his overbearing father, sacrificing his family for his freedom. >> vincent was the first to give up the farm and after that archie was cooked. >> reporter: the cabello family schism began shortly after they were all arrested and looking at lengthy prison terms.

their 990-square-foot home, became a prison of its own. >> the case wasn't going away. and the trial's coming closer and closer. >> reporter: inside, there is dissension in the ranks. >> the three of them together every day, all day, just really wore on vincent. and the tension in the household was extreme. >> reporter: bryan denson spoke with the family when he was the courthouse reporter for "the oregonian." >> i see a lot of dysfunctional among the worst, and probably the worst i have seen in terms of just the strange dynamic between the father, the son and the wife. >> reporter: and that's saying something. "20/20" has covered other patriarchs in the pacific northwest who've used their own kids for financial gain. scott catt robbed five banks in oregon before moving his operation to texas where the master manipulated got not one, but both his kids to rob banks with him. >> he was the muscle with the gun, and i was the money guy. >> reporter: but that lifestyle is pressure packed.

the pressure proved too much for the man on the motorcycle. he is finally ready to resolve his daddy issues in one swoop. one day, the phone rings, and it's vincent cabello's lawyer saying, "he's ready to cooperate." how does that change things? >> he was very willing to tell a long story of how this had started in the '90s and it carried through to 2005, when they committed the large $3 million theft. and he was, in a way, getting something off his chest. >> reporter: vincent refused our repeated requests for an interview, but he told the feds everything. >> archie made him do things that deep down, he probably didn't want to do. >> reporter: when vincent spilled the beans, it wasn't just about what happened, but about where the money was. he told you where the money was? >> he told us very precisely where it was. >> reporter: vincent cabello

sent directions to the feds to search the house one more time. hiding behind the wall socket is a key. and inside a leg of a walker, inside key. they race to washington state. in the shadow of seattle, a safe deposit company in washington, offers a service, a fee. for an extra $100, he gets a fake name for the owner of the box. >> mike older. and marry martin. vincent was ronalder. >> they are visiting just enough to keep the bills paid. >> reporter: access records reveal this is where vincent came to hide the $3 million from the oregon robbery. but the man who visited here more than 50 times to take cash back to portland was archie

cabello. the cash used to pay off the money orders, and credit card debt. they hid them in canters. among them, the cash in the credit card debt. dug spray, shaving cream, and wd-40 for archie. the end is in sight. for the most part, it confirmed a lot of things we suspected. >> obviously, we didn't know where the money was. we knew it was somewhere. we didn't know where. he told us where it was. >> reporter: he tells them to head straight to box 254. >> agent o'connor gave me the honors and said, "okay, open it up." i opened it up and there was one roughly $1.9 million in hundred dollar bills in that suitcase. >> reporter: but looking at that money? >> it was a good ending to a case that i thought was worked really well for everyone involved. >> reporter: stack upon stack of crisp, mouth-watering benjamins. it's the pot of gold at the end a rainbow they have been chasing for years.

the two fbi agents and irs agent miranda cole now have everything they need to close the case. but it must feel good. >> closure's good. justice is good. >> it would have been a much more difficult case without the money. so, having this money was a huge break in the case. >> reporter: the family is now an oedipal wreck. archie are marian are rearrested and jailed. vincent exiled from his parent's affections as they learn he's turned state's evidence. everybody gets their own defense lawyer. listen to this prison phone call between archie and his other son. you can hear the pain and the scorn in his voice as he discusses vincent. >> he's gonna testify against you guys. >> so you know we'll have the sad spectacle of our son sitting there in court pointing the finger at us. >> it's on fox news, abc news. >> a former wisconsin is busted for a series of armored car heists. >> it went national?

>> yeah, coast to coast. >> that [ bleep ] idiot. he's just a hateful spiteful person. we gotta put him out of minds because there's nothing we can do about him. he's a psycho if you should see him, see his face. dial 911 immediately. immediately! >> mom asked me to remove all his pictures from the house. >> reporter: marian. i assume you went back to her after this phone call from vincent, and said, "hey, your son's cooperating." what was her reaction? >> she came in with her lawyer also, and decided to talk to us, as well. >> reporter: archie stalls court proceedings as he scrambles to think of a way out. the man who always played the angles, reduced to rolling the dice, buying megabucks tickets in a desperate attempt to win millions to pay back the money. >> what else you got? >> i don't care how you win it. just win it. >> reporter: but archie's luck had finally run out. when we return, we find marian cabello enjoying her freedom.

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"20/20" saturday continues with "family business." >> reporter: standing in court, his hidden fortune found, his family flipped, archie cabello folded, pleading guilty. the reasons were several, most of them federal. his new, quite possibly final address -- latuna federal prison in texas. he'll be here for the next 20 years, or as the judge

phrased it, "if you live that long." marian and vincent cabello got 15-month prison terms for their roles, the time reduced for cooperation. after his testimony, vincent took a job at a cemetery. as for the money, the feds recovered a big chunk of it. but not all of it. >> i wanna know where the rest of the money is. if they were living so far under the radar, where is it? >> reporter: we wanted to ask marian that very question. we saw her hanging out with a friend smoking cigarettes, and later -- i'm david wright from abc news. -- on a rainy day, i caught up with her in a grocery store parking lot. you're a hard woman to find. are you in contact with archie? just a few minutes of your time. i know your eager to put this chapter of your life behind you. she doesn't want to talk. as she tried to put her criminal past, and our cameras, in her rear-view mirror, and saga comes to an end, but one final note to all armored truck companies. archie cabello is due to be released from prison in july of 2029. he'll be pretty old by then.

even so, best not to give him the keys to another armored truck. >> so we'll just have to wait until then. 12 more years to see if marian sticks around for her husband. here's a different kind of twitter question for you. if you had that extra kind of spare change, and $4 million, and we're not saying steal it, where would you spend it? >> i'm elizabeth vargas. thank you so much for watching tonight. "20/20" can be all day long and on dvr. for all of us here at abc news, have a great weekend and good night. a sudden flash flood on a california road terrifies a father and his daughter, but it

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