Casefile Revisited: North Hollywood Shootout
When Larry Phillips Junior and Emil Mătăsăreanu entered the North Hollywood branch of the Bank of America on February 28 1997, no one could have predicted the chaos that was about to ensue. What followed was 44 minutes of pure mayhem.
Casefile Revisited features newly re-recorded versions of classic episodes, revisiting the stories with enhanced production, fresh narration, and updated research where possible.
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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Anonymous Host
Additional writing & editing – Elsha McGill
Production & music – Mike Migas
Audio editing – Anthony Telfer
The North Hollywood Shootout episode was originally released in May 2016.
Comments (18)
You gotta be Rangers
Pretty sure one of the all time great movies Heat was based on this
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Sorry to be whiny but when are you guys back? Missing you!
Hi Annie, new episode will drop tonight Australian time (approx 10-12 hours, give or take).
I hadn’t listened to this since 2016, this episode was one of my first Casefile episodes and I forgot how great it is.
Such a wild ride! I remember seeing the coverage of it, well after the fact on our nightly news. Aside from traumatizing innocent people and the literal rampage they went on, the planning and execution of a robbery of this scale is impressive.
Great episode! I grew up and live in the Los Angeles area and I remember watching the footage on the news when I got home from school . The impacts this had on the militarization of police cannot be understated . The family of the gunman I think ultimately dropped their suit due to intense public pressure and shaming . Larry and Emil were deeply hated almost universally here for this rampage .
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This was an episode I wasn't that excited about, but was walking my dog and decided to start listening. Wow, it was so riveting, well done as always.
I hadn’t heard about this case until Casefile first covered it. Not sure how; I’m American and definitely remember most of the big crazy stories on the news in the 90s.
it kind of came and went, partly because things really started ramping up in the next couple of years wrt "people shooting at each other" especially with Columbine, and partly because there's not much to unravel about the story besides "two bank robbers decided to rob a bank harder than usual and then died."
This was a great episode
Only in America ....
tf you mean "only in America," only one year before this event a guy in Tasmania massacred 35 people. You think Australians never robbed banks? Criminals are why there's an Australia!
Very emotional episode. You can feel the fear and panic
[DANGER: this comment contains references to the fact that I don't actually live in Australia.] So I grew up in Los Angeles in the 90's and was a latchkey kid (and that term baffles me to this day, because I cannot imagine how stressful it would be to come home after school and one of your parents is already right there in your face? one time my mom got lost in Joshua Tree National Park with her boyfriend and didn't come home for an entire day and night, and the neighbors took me in to look after me and fed me Spaghettios and honestly it was the best night of my entire childhood. Unfortunately my mom eventually found her way back home. Moving on). Afterschool cartoons on FOX were an important part of my routine. However, FOX was also the channel that would most often cut away to live feeds of police chases and other dramas, and this was WAY before Superbowl 2004 so the "seven second delay" wasn't common. This means that at the tender age of 11 to 13 I watched a bunch of people die live on television. I watched the North Hollywood Shootout unfold in real time and as the crow flies, it wasn't actually that far from where my dinky little apartment was. On that day, and on all the other days where I saw people committing shotgun-suicide on the cloverleaf interchange or climbing out of their high school window or being PITted by an overzealous cop and being ejected from their rolling vehicle, I was watching real life, in real time, uncensored. The Rodney King riots and the Northridge quake and the OJ trial and briefly living in Switzerland where all my friends were refugees were nudging me along, but this event in North Hollywood is, I think, what really set me on the path of loving True Crime as much as I do, and the way that I do. FOX did not pretend its viewers were watching two guys trying to GTA their way out of a B of A for any reason except morbid curiosity and a desire to see blood on the pavement, and I don't pretend to be obsessed with True Crime because I love solving mysteries and seeing justice done. I want to see blood now just as much as I did when I was 12 and though you might claim otherwise, I think most other TC fans do too. After all, it's safe, happening to someone else on the other side of a TV screen, meaning you can enjoy the carnage without having to duck. Here's to being 12 and sitting way too close to the TV, listening to the excited chatter of the reporters and hoping your mom and her loser boyfriend die of exposure.
You never cease to amaze!!