This Is Your FBI: The Tin Can Killing

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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, safe cracking, its title, the Tin Can Killing. Criminals like athletes are either professionals or amateurs. The professionals usually dedicate themselves to what is sometimes called a life of crime.

Starting as juvenile delinquents, they end serving a life term in prison. Many of them are specialists, experienced experts in hold-ups, hijacking, forging, or confidence games. But the amateur criminal is an entirely different breed of man.

In this class comes the trusted employee who falsifies his accounts over a long period. Or the amateur may be some ordinary citizen who is suddenly given what seems like a magnificent opportunity to rob or commit an act of violence with little danger of getting caught.

Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation deals with this second type of amateur criminal. Tonight's file opens on the outskirts of an Indian reservation located in a western state. It is early morning and the quiet is broken only by the drone of a plane overhead.