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- ↑ Staff. "Hat Bandit faces Jan. 24 sentencing", The Star-Ledger , January 3, 2008. Accessed October 1, 2019. "The 1975 Chatham High School graduate known as the Hat Bandit following a string of bank robberies will be sentenced Jan. 24, according to a report in the Daily Record."
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- ↑ "'mad Hatter' Bank Robber Arrested, Identified". Fox News . 23 July 2007.
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