NARRATOR: What you're about to see
may be dangerous, illegal, unethical,
petty, misguided, immoral, and most definitely stupid.
But it's also all true.
Hmm. Sort of.
♪ (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(SLOT MACHINE CHIMING)
KENNETH "SPEEDY" RAULERSON: They thought they could steal my dog and get away with it.
Fuck with my dog.
SPEEDY: But now it was payback time.
(ENGINE REVS)
♪ (WESTERN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: I was gonna hit 'em hard and haul ass.
Well, the ideal situation was
go up and put that sucker on automatic pilot...
steam due west,
and steal the whole damn casino.
An action creates a reaction.
You mess with my dogs, you're gonna get a reaction.
And they got a reaction.
♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
♪ (THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪
- (INSECTS CHIRPING) - (DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE)
♪ (WESTERN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: My name's Kenneth "Speedy" Raulerson...
And I'm from Crackertown, Florida.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
SPEEDY: I was born on Halloween night.
Matter of fact, I was born in 30 seconds flat.
The doctor had to chase me down the hall
just to spank me on the ass.
I mean, I was Mach 10 with my hair on fire.
I mean, my whole life.
There's only one thing I've ever been addicted to,
and that's adrenaline.
I did just about every crime there is to do.
From bank robbery to extortion
to aggravated assault with a firearm.
Armed with a deadly explosive.
Blowed up a bar.
(EXPLOSIONS)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
SPEEDY: I leveled it. Wasn't nothing standing
but the ice machine.
I've kidnapped one dude's brother
and made the other brother pay the money.
Allegedly.
- That's just what I've been charged with now. - (CREW MEMBER CHUCKLING)
(SIREN BLARING)
Get in. Look at this.
SPEEDY: I've been in some pretty tight situations.
Oh, shit!
I did some pretty stupid things.
You got the wrong guy on this one.
During all those escapades, not a shot was ever fired.
Nobody was never seriously hurt.
Other than a headache.
♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JESSICA KITE: You heard all the stories
that Speedy's on the run,
and I always thought, "God, this guy, he's fascinating."
But at the same time, I was scared of him.
My name is Jessica Kite,
and I grew up next door to Speedy Raulerson.
I didn't know Speedy when I was a kid,
but I knew the legend. The legend of Speedy.
I've been a fugitive twice.
I was first a fugitive from 1985 to '89,
and then from early '97 to 2006.
All right, listen here.
SPEEDY: The second time I went on the run was much harder
because I had to leave my beloved dog Shay behind.
Shay, you're the best darn dog I ever did know.
You hear me? But I gots to go.
- (WHINES) - Shay is the actual reason
that began this whole story that I'm fixin' to tell you.
♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: My friend Walt, he was really the only one
I trusted with Shay.
You can trust me with her, Speedy.
Yeah. What about that boy of yours?
SPEEDY: Jared was his son.
He was about... I think he was 18 years old,
maybe 19. I'm not sure.
I'm 36.
They knew how much I cared about her,
so they took her.
- She'll be well took care of. - All right.
- Love you, Shay. - (SHAY WHINES)
SPEEDY: There was a certain law enforcement agent
who had a hard-on for me.
I got a hard-on for Speedy.
That's a weird thing to say.
His name is Bill... (BLEEP) ...special agent with the FDLE.
(SIREN WAILING)
They come and took Shay and held her, literally, for hostage.
JESSICA: And the FDLE told Speedy,
"If you don't turn yourself in,
we're gonna put these dogs down."
SPEEDY: I was angry.
I'm angry.
You just don't go and take someone's dogs
and murder them in cold blood.
I'm very angry.
You're going to pay dearly for it.
TOURIST: 1 (OVER TV) I took the wife on the SunCruz, and...
TOURIST 2: He couldn't wait to win the jackpot.
SPEEDY: That's when I started plotting
to steal that SunCruz casino boat.
NARRATOR: Reserve your slot for the next SunCruz Casino.
Sailing twice daily
from Martha's on the Intracoastal...
In his mind, that's how he got even.
It was just tit-for-tat.
It doesn't make any sense to me,
but it makes perfect sense to Speedy.
You steal my dog, I'm gonna kill your cat.
And I was killing their damn cat.
- NARRATOR: For reservations, call 1-800-47-- - Fuck you.
(GUNSHOT)
♪ (SOFT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: I came up with the perfect plan
- on how to rob that casino. - (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
ANNOUNCER: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
(ENGINE REVVING)
SPEEDY: 'Cause I was gonna do it big.
I knew there was 250,000 dollars on that boat,
and I was gonna get it all.
And I had my friend Walt who was gonna help.
You can count on me, Speedy.
I'm serious, Walt, no boozing. No boozing.
I swear on my mama's grave, I never will fail you.
- ♪ (ROCK SONG PLAYING) ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪
Okay.
♪ Well, I've got to Find my way ♪
SPEEDY: Step one was the night guard.
- ♪ Yeah ♪ - (SNORES)
- SPEEDY: We needed his key card. - (CONTINUES SNORING)
Huh? Where's my dang gun?
SPEEDY: He was a heavier guy.
"SPEEDY": Easy.
♪ Ooh, yeah ♪
(BEEPS)
All right, come on, come on.
The ideal situation was to get into the big safe...
♪ Find my way back home ♪
"SPEEDY": Let's go.
(HISSING)
- Oh, yeah. - ♪ Go way too fast ♪
SPEEDY: ...get the money...
♪ Yeah, getting down With that stack of that cash ♪
♪ So if you're looking For me, baby... ♪
SPEEDY: ...go up and put that sucker
on automatic pilot...
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪
- SPEEDY: ...and head due west. - (BOAT HORN BLARING)
INTERVIEWER: You were gonna steal the whole casino boat?
I was gonna steal the whole boat.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, 100 percent.
One hundred percent,
I wanted to steal the whole boat, okay?
♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: That was it in a perfect world,
but it just didn't happen that way.
Murphy's Law. If it can go wrong,
it will go wrong.
And true to Murphy's Law,
basically everything went dinky dow.
That was the perfect plan,
but here's what actually happened.
- Hey, Walt! - (CANS CLANK)
Hey. Walt, you ready?
SPEEDY: On the night of the heist,
I go over to Walt's...
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
I'm solid. I'm straight.
Sure as the world, he's drunker than Cooter Brown.
Shit.
When you see a heist or a bank robbery
or something like that reported in the media,
it's nothing like you see in the movies.
My name is Blaine Coral.
I did 35 years as a police officer.
I've become a Class "C" licensed private investigator.
I need my pistol. Damn thing.
- (PISTOL THUDS) - (GROANS)
Most of these guys are not rocket scientists,
or they would not be doing the type of things that they do.
I'm like, "Tonight's 'Go' night."
Tonight's "Go" night!
Walt, you told me that I can count on you.
By God, you can count on me,
'cause I'm telling you, I never done did you dirty.
♪ (WESTERN MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JERRY: And I'm telling him,
"Walt, I can't take you in that kind of shape.
You're too drunk."
- I'm too drunk? - Just give me your keys.
Let me borrow your truck at least.
Payback, she ain't running.
(TOAD CROAKING)
- God darn it! - Wait. I got an idea.
He said, "Well, take Jared. He'll go."
Jared.
Jared, he was the only one that can go.
So I'm like, "Okay, to hell with that."
I didn't have much of a choice.
So I took Jared.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: Which was a big mistake.
What you never do see is a Mission Impossible
or a Ocean's Eleven type gang of thieves.
There's generally also very few brain cells
working at the same time.
♪ (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
So, I go up there a little bit closer to the trailer,
you know, to the back of the trailer.
Jared's real close to me.
I said, "Stick to me close," you know, I whispered to him.
- Right, stick to me close. - Okay.
SPEEDY: Took a deep breath...
"SPEEDY": Okay, three, two, one, breach.
All right, get your hands up.
Drop that donut and coffee, you son of a bitch.
You know, I told him this is a robbery. This is serious.
"SPEEDY": This here's a robbery. This is serious.
"JARED": You son of a bitch!
SPEEDY: And then Jared comes in, all gung-ho.
Goddammit, Jared, get your gun off me!
What?
No, get off me! Give me the damn duct tape.
- Oh, the duct tape. - Come on. Yeah.
- Right, yeah. - Quick.
Basically, alls we really had to do is just tape the guy up.
- Quick, quick! - "JARED": Yeah, I'm getting it!
SPEEDY: But while this was happening...
The guard, he went to go like that,
you know, like he was grabbing for something.
(BOTH GRUNT)
And I took him down to the ground.
JARED: I got it somewhere.
- (BOTH GRUNTING) - (GLASS SHATTERING)
- Son of a... (SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) - (ROY GRUNTS)
Give me the goddamn duct tape!
Yeah, it's in here somewhere. Hold on.
- "SPEEDY": Goddammit, Jared! - (BOTH GRUNT)
(SCREAMS)
- (GROANS) - Quick! Throw it here!
Well, I had to give him a little love tap.
"JARED": I found it!
Again, not a lot of gray matter going on up here.
- (GRUNTS) ♪ (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: After I got him taped and secured...
"SPEEDY": I can't see shit.
"JARED": I can't see anything either.
"SPEEDY": Fuck it. Goddammit.
- What happened? - Let's go. Come on.
- Okay. - Stop fucking around.
SPEEDY: I went and stole a torch...
Okay, I get this...
- Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. - This is really hard.
Acetylene torch.
- "JARED": Okay. - Yeah.
SPEEDY: Got it up to the safe, and...
strike that sucker up, and lit her up.
I mean, you know, just trying to blow a hole somewhere in it.
(ROARING)
SPEEDY: Trying to get into it.
And it-- Man, nothing.
- ("SPEEDY" AND "JARED" COUGHING) - "SPEEDY": Shit! Dammit!
SPEEDY: I just didn't realize how big the safe was
and how tough it was.
- Must be made of steel. - What are we gonna do now?
Shut up, Jared! I'm trying to think.
Formulating.
So, I already knew that there was ATM machines in there.
Ah.
SPEEDY: I knew what we had to do.
I got a secondary plan.
SPEEDY: The ATMs, that was the secondary plan.
So I just kicked it.
(ATM CRASHES)
(IMITATES ATM CRASHING)
All the way down to the bottom of the stairwell.
"JARED": (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) Let's go.
SPEEDY: So, we go wheeling this ATM, and the guy's looking.
He's looking underneath that mask, and he says,
"I don't know where you think you're going with that."
I don't know where you think you're going with that!
SPEEDY: "You can't get that out of here."
You can't get that out of here.
And I'm like, "Oh, yeah?" I said,
"Well, whose Cadillac's that up there?"
Whose Cadillac's that up there?
And he...
(GASPS) No! Get...
You get away from that Cadillac! That's my baby!
You get away from that car!
- You push. Push, Jared, push. - "JARED": I'm pushing!
- "SPEEDY": Push! - "JARED": I'm pushing!
SPEEDY: I'm gonna take two of them.
I'm putting one in the back seat,
and I'm putting one in the trunk.
- It hurts my fingers though. - "SPEEDY": Come on. Ready? Ready?
(GRUNTS) Push!
This son of a bitch!
(WHIMPERS) Fuck! God dang it!
Trying to get the first one in the back seat.
(CAR SQUEAKS)
(WHIMPERS) Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
That damn ATM machine was about a half an inch
from fitting in that backseat.
It's going in. It's going in! (GRUNTS)
I couldn't... There's no way I could...
There's nothing I could have done. Man, I tried.
Doggone it! She ain't gonna fit!
SPEEDY: It was not going in that backseat.
Believe me, I tried.
(CAR ENGINE REVS)
SPEEDY: So I had to settle for the one.
You're never gonna get away!
SPEEDY: The guard said, "You're not gonna get
through the gate with that."
You're not gonna get through the gate with that!
I looked over at Jared. I said, "Hold on."
I threw that son of a bitch down in low, man.
And I hit it going about 50.
That gate just went... (IMITATES EXPLOSION)
And I got the hell out of there.
- Mother... (GRUNTS) - ♪ (MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
(GRUNTS) This bitch ain't budging!
Son of a bitch!
- (GUNSHOT) - ♪ (INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
Son of a bitch.
SPEEDY: I thought they'd be fives and tens.
They were all 20s.
And it just happened to be, allegedly, 32,000 dollars.
That was pretty much it. Now, I mean,
I didn't get away with near as much
as I was supposed to, but...
it was enough to pay for those dogs, in my mind.
So...
So when he allegedly robbed the Suncoast Casino cruise ship,
he knew that they were after him,
so he fled to Massachusetts.
♪ (UPBEAT FOLK MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
JESSICA: And he went by the name of "Bruce Clayter."
SPEEDY: I go by quite a few names.
Edward Morris, Jeff Robertson, Jack Cook, Ellisteen Barnes.
But right then, I was Bruce Clayter.
Thank you.
SPEEDY: So, I'm hanging out at the bar,
chatting with some young lady,
and I heard my name come on TV.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement is hunting
Kenneth Scott Raulerson for robbing a floating casino.
I'm John Walsh with an urgent alert from the Crime Center.
NARRATOR: Now, join the manhunt
with John Walsh.
And it's America's Most Wanted, and it's my picture.
JOHN WALSH: Here's the most recent photo of Raulerson.
And she looks at it, and then she looks at me.
She's like, "Damn, Bruce, that looks like you."
Damn, Bruce, that looks like you.
How about that?
And then, I swear, not ten, 15 seconds later,
they said, "Also known as Bruce Clayter."
Also known as Bruce Clayter.
She said, "Bruce, he got your damn name too!"
Bruce, he's got your damn name too.
Well, how about that?
Everyone looked at him. Everyone looked at him.
I said, "That's a bunch of bullshit."
I said, "If anybody thinks I'm that guy right there..."
I said, "Right, there's the payphone. Go pick it up."
Go pick it up. That's some bullshit.
Another buddy of mine, he said,
"There ain't gonna be nobody using this phone."
There ain't gonna be anyone using this phone.
And the barmaid, she said,
"Go pack your shit. I'll call you a cab."
I'll call you a cab. (CLICKS TONGUE)
Thank you.
Wait. I love you, Bruce Clayter.
("SPEEDY" GRUNTS)
How about that?
So I run upstairs and pack my shit.
In five minutes, there was a cab there,
and I was leaving.
If someone robs a bank, or a casino, or what have you,
it's more likely that they will get caught down the line
by doing something stupid, or making a misstep,
or not covering their tracks
than it is that they'll get arrested
as they're running out the front door of the place.
- (CLICKS) - Turn to the right.
SPEEDY: They did end up busting me eventually.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
SPEEDY: But that's a whole 'nother story that I'm not gettin' into today.
You only caught me 'cause I wanted you to.
But I ain't getting into all that today.
SPEEDY: My lifelong run of evading the police
had finally come to an end.
About a year later, I got a visitor in prison.
♪ (WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING) ♪
SPEEDY: They had never put her down.
My Shay Shay was still alive.
Oh.
(SHAY PANTING)
SPEEDY: But that's all in the past.
Today, I'm trying to clean the river I grew up on,
the Lower Withlacoochee.
As you can see, this is where our river is blocked up.
It should have never been cut in half.
I've been in that river since I was five years old,
and to come home all these years later,
and I find my river looking like this.
That's pure pollution.
Who wants their children swimming in this?
Everything that I've done in my life
kind of primed me for my next adventure in life
that I'm doing with this river.
It takes a crook to spot a crook,
and take it from me,
this river is being destroyed by crooks.
Pisses me off.
He's our Speedy. We love him.
Yeah, he's Speedy, you know? He'll always be Speedy.
And if you don't like it, tough bandanas.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
Mama, look at me now.
♪ ("REBEL" BY JOHN MORAN PLAYING) ♪
♪ Forty-nine crimes Behind me ♪
♪ Fifty or more ahead ♪
♪ I said I'm looking For something exciting ♪
♪ I'll be looking Until I'm dead ♪
♪ You wanna love me And I wanna love you ♪
♪ Yes, I do ♪
♪ Listening out for sirens ♪
♪ The wide of the law patrol ♪
♪ I said My burden of fear is lightened ♪
♪ When the sirens refrain Becomes old ♪
♪ (SONG CONCLUDES) ♪