00:00The moment in October 2023, when Kim Alan Parsons' violent past finally caught up with
00:09him.
00:10There was a resignation in his face, we could tell that the day had finally come for him.
00:14For almost 20 years he'd been known only as the Bicycle Bandit, the man who terrorised
00:19bank staff.
00:20Bring everything out, put it in the green bag, everything.
00:25Rose Lindner remembers the fear she felt when she came face to face with Parsons at the
00:30Tanunda Bank in 2006.
00:32I'm going to die, yeah, he's going to shoot us.
00:37For Rose, it was a life changing moment.
00:39I was hyper vigilant, I would be mid-serving a customer and drop to the ground and crawl
00:47across the bank's floor to safety.
00:50The arrest of the former police officer and long-time firefighter delivering an immediate
00:55sense of relief for those he terrorised.
01:00In all, Parsons committed 11 armed hold-ups over a 10-year period and hit the same bank
01:05at Mount Pleasant three times.
01:07He had complete disregard for victims.
01:11With no DNA match to law enforcement databases, police turned to forensic investigative genetic
01:17genealogy.
01:18This is the first time that South Australia Police applied the technique to a criminal
01:23case.
01:24In this case, police linked the DNA left by Kim Parsons to a distant cousin overseas on
01:29a public database.
01:31From there, detectives began working through the family tree until they finally found their
01:36match.
01:37It's a game-changing technique for law enforcement and it will be used to solve more cold cases.
01:43With Parsons suffering stage four cancer, police moved to fast-track the court process.
01:48The 73-year-old eventually accepted his fate and pleaded guilty.
01:53He was given a 35-year sentence in order to pay back the $359,000 that he'd stolen.
02:01For Rose, knowing her tormentor is no longer out there is helping the healing process.
02:06Life's good.
02:07I can't change anything that happened.
02:10It'll just be with me.
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