state, so many people refused to remain silent. they stepped in and did the right thing. "20/20" starts right now. and now, abc's "20/20." >> tonight on "20/20," it's not quite the game from "ocean's 11." more like mud puddle. >> they are the most peculiar family i have run across. >> how a family trio took the money and drove and kept driving for ten full years, taking banks, the federal reserve and even the fbi on a wild goose chase. >> they got away with it. >> $4 million snatched from under their noses time after time after time. >> it was an inside job, a family job. >> a string of robberies.

>> just a fake beard, sketchy 911 calls, and cans of ajax and wd-40 and aqua net. >> it's so weird. >> why are they living in 900 square feet of this? tonight, we are tracking them down for answers. >> what do you want to know? >> the wife who knew more than she said. the paratrooper's son with daddy issues. >> and who is on the motorcycle? >> he said, what crimes? >> catch me if you can, will they turn on each other first. >> he's taking all of us down, dad. >> family business. good evening, i'm david muir. >> and i'm elizabeth vargas. >> tonight, a caper that gives new meaning to the term crime family. not that there are mobsters

involved. just one average family with a noticeable flaw. they prefer stealing money to actually earning it. >> inside the outrageous case. ten years in the making, thousands of miles chasing down three family members who are hiding in plain sight. and a plan to hold on to all the millions. here is david wright tonight with a different kind of family business. >> reporter: milwaukee, wisconsin. a city with a rich beer history, but a place where archie cabello has something else brewing. >> i think he's a very cunning individual. >> generally my impression of archie was a guy who showed up on time went out his route every day, there wasn't a lot memorable about the guy. >> reporter: in 1995, he's grinding it out as a truck driver, making about six bucks an hour. he's 48 years old with bills to pay. two kids and a wife to support. that's her. a chain smoker, puffing away. they've been together since she was a teenager. >> one thing was really clear. loves his wife.

>> reporter: archie also loves money. but he hates to work, according to veteran journalist bryan densen. >> archie would have been great if he'd just gone to college, if he'd had some means growing up to go to college. 'cause he's a smart guy. >> reporter: smart enough to figure out a shortcut to a much more lucrative career path! you see archie doesn't just drive any truck. he drives an armored truck, stuffed with cash. you've seen them. double parked as they deliver their precious cargo to stores, bank and atm machines. cold hard cash. easy money. if you can get to it. these things are fort knox on wheels. tell me about archie? >> what do you wanna know? >> reporter: that's fbi special agent ken o'connor, an expert in armored car robberies and archie cabello. >> i was fortunate that i have

done cases like this before. >> reporter: it was his job to piece together the cabello capers, years after the fact. this the kind of case everybody else likes to avoid? kind of clunker -- >> for me, it was just -- let's just get it done. >> reporter: with his help we retraced archie's steps on the day he was due to deliver cash and coin to banks and businesses all over milwaukee. >> the two people he was assigned with were, one had been there on the job for a week, the other had been on the job for two weeks. so he was the senior guy. >> reporter: the inexperience of those co-workers plays a key role here because they take orders from archie, no questions asked. what they don't know is that somebody else is watching their armored truck. every day at a pre-determined time a woman leaves her job at a local cafe, gets into her ordinary car, goes for a drive, and then parks. every day, she watches the armored truck.

once it passes they go their separate ways. the same routine, day after day after day. but today, it's gonna 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 scheduled round of pick ups and deliveries. around midday, pulling into this strip mall. >> they make a stop at first star national bank. >> reporter: cabello, a former marine, is armed with a gun that he certainly knows how to use. but he doesn't need to use it. his weapon of choice today? a ballpoint pen. >> he's on paperwork showing he signed for the bag at 12:30. a bag that had about $157,800 give or take. >> reporter: give or take, archie will always choose take. out in a matter of minutes, the crew puts the money safely in the truck. it's now break time. >> he ditched the other two people.

for a kbreak, or a bathroom break. >> reporter: all he needs is a few quick minutes alone with his thoughts and all that money. he pulls around back, where he meets up with the car that has been quietly tracking his every move. archie takes that bag of cash he just picked up at first star bank and makes a rather unusual deposit. >> her open window, onto the passenger side seat. and they both drove off. >> reporter: archie loops back around and waits for the crew to come off their break. once back in the truck, the trio resumes their workday, none the wiser that their load has been lightened by more than $100,000. # >> it's cheeky. he's a cheeky guy. but, you know, i think like a lot of folks who make the bulk of their money illegally, archie decided he could be cheeky. >> reporter: meanwhile the driver of the car is transferring the money out of the bank bag and into another carry-on, soon to be stashed away. obviously at the end of the day archie is gonna have some explaining to do. so he just said, oops?

>> bag got lost in shuffle somehow. >> reporter: pretty big -- pretty big thing to get lost in shuffle, $157,000? >> exactly. >> reporter: that's right. when his bosses ask "where's the money?" archie's response is as simple as, i don't know. >> reporter: he gets an unintended assist from his co-workers. the crew isn't saying much either. primarily because they don't know much. >> reporter: what was the story that they told? >> they of course denied taking the bag. one of them took a polygraph and passed, the other one didn't take a polygraph, archie didn't take one. >> reporter: 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 that he wasn't busted then? i mean, 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. but in one day he's taken home five times his annual wages. so he'll get over it. >> nobody got charged in that case. >> reporter: the dirty secret? to some extent armored car companies expect the occasional big loss. it's part of the cost of doing business. >> a situation like that, your insurance company is going 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 have to explain himself to the missus. turns out, the woman in the unmarked car was none other than marian cabello, archie's wife. his partner in crime. their luck may not last a lifetime, but not to worry, archie just getting started. this family business is up and running and about to expand. >> like, archie said, he goes, "i did it once, i can do it again." >> reporter: when we return, a paratrooper drops in to help archie with cabello caper number two. a theft that'll vault the family into another tax bracket.

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"20/20" continues with 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, not exactly employee of the year and watch lg his favorite movie, "thief. >> i'm a theet. >> 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 circle. >> reporter: archie circles jobs in the newspaper for vincent to apply for.

the focus is on banks and casinos and any other place where big cash is kept 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 robbery, he would act like 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. and 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. 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 archie 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. the detective strongly suspects it was an inside job. especially when he sees the get away route. >> they would have went through this door, through the freight elevator, 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 conspiracy, secrecy and keeping it tight within the family. 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 these companies, and 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. you know, so at this point, two robberies, almost a million bucks, 900,000, give or take? >> yes. >> reporter: but it's not time for retirement yet. >> reporter: coming up. caper number three about to be the biggest yet. how much did they get away with? >> 3 million cash. >> 3 million dollars? >> yes. >> reporter: so why are they living here? when we return. ?

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>> 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 pleasures like the local nature 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 shuffled from room to room and prepped for various delivery points. this is archie cabello's kind of

joint. that's him in his security uniform, badge and all. it all seems hunky-dory until the afternoon of december 5th, 2005, when this 911 call comes in. >> 9-1-1. >> yeah, i'd like to report a robbery. >> you were held up? >> no, but i'm looking at a guy here who's handcuffed to his armored truck. >> reporter: with archie cuffed to the truck, the passerby holdses up his phone. >> i didn't look at him that much. he had a gun on the side of my 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. the robber was wearing a fake beard, and brandished the gun. archie opened the door. >> the armed robber, according to archie during the interview says "start driving." >> archie told police the robbers forced him to drive, to the southeast portland location. when he was handcuffed to the wheel, and they got away with millions of dollars in cash. >> reporter: the cops scour the neighborhood looking for one or more suspects. >> male, while, 40s, 5'10", 180. wearing a black ball cap. unknown hair but he had some kind of fake dark beard on and sunglasses apparently, there was a gun involved. >> 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. >> archie 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 rob they are 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 cabella 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 house itself is certainly 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 vince and archie and with negative responses. >> 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, the credit cards, it doesn't pass the smell tests. if they had looked closer the agents would have discovered they were really so-called "diversion safes." like this one, hidden inside 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 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

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>> "20/20" 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. >> 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 were not 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 only made about $11,000 a year following the oregon robbery. keeping the family solvent required outlays of more than a quarter million dollars 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. >> 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 on street was becoming a pressure cooker, straining 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 who have 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 to make a case, and move in. >> we ended up arresting archie. >> only four days. >> armored car robberies. >> fbi agents say it's an inside come. >> reporter: the news makes it in oregon. and all the way back in milwaukee. facing a 51-count 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. >> reporter: you won't believe it either when the man under the helmet decides it's time to tell all. next v next.

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family business continues on "20/20." >> 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 the shaved 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 one 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 families and probably the worst i've 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. and the pressure proved too much for the man on the motorcycle. he's finally ready to resolve his daddy issues in one fell 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: vicinity sent directs 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. in seattle, a safe deposit company in washington offers a service, anonimty for 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: this is where vincent came to hide the $3 million from the oregon robbery. and the man who visited here was archie. 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. and obviously we didn't know where the money was. we knew it was somewhere. we didn't know where. >> 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've been chasing for years. the two fbi agents and irs agent maranda 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 archie's voice as he discusses vincent with his other son. >> 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 family car heist. >> 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 is reduced to roll the dice, buying mega bucks tickets. >> what else you got? >> i don't care how you win it. just win it. >> reporter: but archie's luck had finally run out. win we return, we find marian cabello enjoying her volunteering is part of our core values at target, we believe in giving back to the community. i am a store team leader for target. my team's out somewhere in the community every month. oh it feels good. this is a great experience.

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vincent took a job at a cemetery. the feds recovered most of the money. 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 the cameras in her rearview mirror the saga comes to an end and they are due to be released from prison in july of 2029 and we are old by then, even so that is not to give them the keys to another armored

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