I'm not saying it's okay to rob a bank. I mean it's not okay, but in my world at the time I found a way to justify that pretty quickly.

This is Tony and yeah, he's a bank robber. In fact, Tony became one of the most prolific bank robbers in American history.

I mean I hate to say this but in some respects it was kind of fun. Turns out he was really really good at it. He robbed 30 banks in about a year.

We just can't seem to catch the guy. We're always just right behind him, you know.

But what really hooked me about Tony's story was why he started robbing banks in the first place.

Because Tony was a family man, doing great. Clear sky for miles.

Got married, had kids, built the house and laid seasons. And he had an incredible job too. Tony was an engineer on a team that designed airplanes for Boeing.

I love the work I was doing. I love the people I was working with. My career just took old.

Tony was a high level guy. He was successful. He looks extremely smart. Almost too smart for his own good.

But then while Tony was playing roller hockey with his work buddies, he took a nasty fall and hurt his fat.

I literally couldn't even get out of bed.

So his family doctor wrote him a prescription, a little something for the pain. He's probably heard of it.

Oxy-contin.

It was like a miracle drug.

Purdue Farm's powerful painkiller seemed to work like magic until it took over his life.

I'm waking up in the morning. I'm smoking some oxy-contin. And I go to Boeing. I'm in my meetings. And then on my lunch break, I go out to my car. Smokes more oxy-contin.

And then I go back to work and then I leave work and I just keep doing the same thing.

Because it turns out, oxy-contin is basically pharmaceutical heroin.

One of the most addictive substances on earth. And the spark for this crisis you've heard so much about.

Opiole are now the biggest drug epidemic in American history.

Another company might have changed course after learning that the product they sold was killing people.

Oxy-contin destroyed my life. Now I do, I accept full responsibility for the crimes I ended up committing and stuff.

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