There were two cameras covering the bank entrance. All they had to do was watch the video footage from the start and make a list of all those who entered and left till the gang entered. They could then have narrowed the list of suspects down from 50 to 10 perhaps. A smart cop in any other movie would have worked it out.
How?
The police had
no evidence that any of the individuals who were detained on the street were a part of the robbery attempt. Further complicating the investigation, one of the robbers was
already in the bank when the others arrived - and he never held a weapon, never wore sunglasses, and he was not one of the 3
Steves. The detectives were suspicious of several of the actual bank robbers, but bank customers/hostages contradicted the detectives' suspicions by offering corroborative exculpatory characterizations of these suspects.
In all three cases, there was at least one innocent customer inside the bank that would also fit the general description of Steve, Stevie, and Stevo. This confused the bank employees and customers as to who were bad guys and who were not during debriefing. There was no physical evidence tying any detainee to the robbery attempt. There was no
'official' money missing. There was no corroborating eye witnesses, and no one really died.
Whom could you actually charge, and
what could you actually charge them with?
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Thiesi
8 years ago
In addition, they also mentioned that there's a period of IIRC about two minutes missing from the footage (because Dalton managed to disable the cameras a few minutes before they were starting the robbery) while watching it. That would surely be enough time to account for two or three people leaving the bank without being recorded while entering it.
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