The story of “Carol & Johnny,” American bank robbers

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This couple robbed 56 banks and stole upwards of $800,000.   After spending nearly two decades in prison, Carol Marie Williams tells her side of the story in a documentary presented at the Tribeca Festival …  #Tribeca2022

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00:00In 1986, he said, I want to rob a bank.

00:03I said, no, you can't.

00:04You can't rob a bank.

00:19I said, no, no, I can't do that.

00:21And he said, I will kill your family one by one,

00:24unless you help me.

00:30The thing about good ways is you have to go slow.

00:33I knew it was wrong from the first one through the 56th one.

01:00I'm just hot.

01:16I'm sexy.

01:18I'm sexy.

01:29I think John looked at the money in the robberies.

01:32I looked at trying to live through another one.

01:35I got violent after every one.

01:37People think it's exciting.

01:39It's not exciting at all.

01:40It's fear.

01:42I mean, it's nothing like pure fear.

01:47I guess I loved him a lot.

02:15I was insecure.

02:17I was very agonistic.

02:18I've gotten a lot of self-confidence through the years.

02:22Talking to John, there was some hints

02:24that maybe he was the more controlling partner.

02:26He's a guy who spent a lot of time in a room alone

02:28by himself, telling a story that he then told us.

02:31And we kind of experienced your relationship

02:38in the past and in the present as it unfolds in the film.

02:43It was a love story that became something else.

02:47When I met him, I knew he had been in a state prison in Texas.

03:09But I believed in second chances.

03:11If I could go back and do things differently,

03:14I probably wouldn't have married him.

03:15I would have said, oh no, I don't want nothing to do with somebody.

03:18I had trouble getting a relationship advice

03:20other than get to know the person very, very, very well

03:24before you commit to a whole lifetime relationship.

03:28Apparently, John had some scheme when he was still in state prison

03:34to marry, take out a life insurance policy, and kill the bride.

03:40When I heard that, that was scary.

03:42I mean, I'm just going to say it out loud.

03:43That was very scary to hear.

03:45I feel a lot better about myself.

03:47I don't go to the corner of a room.

03:49I'll go out and meet people because now I know I'm worthy.

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