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A Villainous Plan

Dateline NBC

NBC News

True Crime, Culture, Social, Society & Culture, News

4.438K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

A Connecticut bank executive is targeted by a crew of criminals who invade his home, take him and his mother hostage and order him to rob his own bank. If he doesn’t commit the crime, they threaten to blow him up with a bomb strapped to his waist. Investigators think it looks like an inside job but after a string of similar crimes in Tennessee, they learn the victims were picked based on social media posts. Dennis Murphy has chosen this episode as one of his most memorable episodes.

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0:00.0

I'm Dennis Murphy. Just imagine for a moment you've wakened in the middle of the night,

0:04.7

you go to the kitchen and staring down at you from a backyard tree is a man with night

0:09.5

vision goggles, but you never even know he's there. What you also don't know, he's

0:14.8

watched your family's comings and goings for hours, taken notes, and his Confederate

0:20.2

has been pouring over your social media posts. When they get all their intel together,

0:25.5

coming for you and your family, kidnapping, robbery, their career criminals, and that's

0:30.8

what they do. We've always advised you not to date line alone. For this one, up the

0:35.8

eddy, gather as many friends as you can about you and turn on all the lights. We called it

0:42.3

a villainous plan and was it ever terrifying.

0:53.6

It's a beautiful September day in the western mountains of North Carolina. Beautiful

1:02.6

stretch of interstate. North Carolina State Highway Patrol is running radar and you see

1:12.0

a four-edge low right by. It started off as a routine traffic stop, but it was anything

1:18.4

but routine. All of a sudden you see the SUV pull over, you see the passenger side door

1:26.4

open briefly and then shut and then take off again. You hear the sirens, you hear the

1:34.6

unmistakable roar of the engine. You see the vehicle swarve into the big truck, takes

1:42.7

off its driver's side mirror, goes flying off and you see his ominous brake lights go on.

1:49.4

And then you see him ram the side. He's hitting me. He's hitting the third vehicle.

2:02.0

Our story begins in 2015 with 46-year-old Matt Yussman, a chief financial officer of a

2:08.2

credit union in Central Connecticut. I've been playing hockey for 30-something years,

2:13.5

play every week, sometimes twice a week, all summer long, all winter long. Money management

2:19.1

pays his bills, but hockey fuels his passion. He's the goalie for a team called the trash

2:24.4

panties. So your league plays on Sunday night, haven't you do that night? We won a game,

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