crime scene specialist. he worked bank robberies as a crime scene officer. he took fingerprints, photographs. he communicated with bank tellers and employees and the fbi in the incidents that occurred in myrtle beach. he was aware of evidence. he was aware of what is looked for in terms of evidence at a crime scene. incredibly, larry bellamy helped investigate one of his own crimes. hindsight being 20/20, looking back at the day that we located his stolen car, i remember larry bellamy showing up on the scene, offering his assistance to us because he was a crime scene officer with the myrtle beach police department. larry s time sheets indicated he was not working when the robberies occurred. investigators also discovered an interesting clue in the way the getaway vehicles were abandoned. they were so successful for
initial reaction was, they ve made a bad mistake. there s no possible way that they ve got the right person or that they should even be looking at this particular person. larry vehemently denied any involvement in the robberies. alvin came home a short time later in the truck identified as the lookout vehicle. the fbi found $116 in brand new bills in alvin s wallet. fresh, crisp 5s and 1s. i started writing down the serial numbers to the $1 and $5 bills. there was basically one of those ploys that you use. i told him that i was going to take them back to the bank and compare it with the stolen money from the bank. he got very agitated, got very upset, demanding he d never seen that money before. the next morning investigators went to the third brother s home nearby.
of those vehicles along a route that in one of the previous bank robberies another witness had followed the getaway vehicle, and they both took exactly the same route. the bank customer eventually lost the robbers, but the license plate number turned out to be an enormous break. the truck belonged to alvin bellamy, a landscaper who lived in rural south carolina. the fbi went to the bellamys home. neither alvin nor the truck were there, but alvin s wife was. she proceeded to tell us where he was, that he was with his brothers, claude bellamy and larry bellamy. so that is the first time we come up with three names. around 1:00 a.m., a car approached the bellamy home, but it wasn t alvin. it was alvin s brother, larry, who was a lieutenant with the myrtle beach police department. they gave me the name of lieutenant larry bellamy, and my
he worked bank robberies as a crime scene officer. he took fingerprints, photographs. he communicated with bank tellers and employees and the fbi in the incidents that occurred in myrtle beach. he was aware of evidence. he was aware of what is looked for in terms of evidence at a crime scene. incredibly, larry bellamy helped investigate one of his own crimes. hindsight being 20/20, looking back at the day that we located his stolen car, i remember larry bellamy showing up on the scene, offering his assistance to us because he was a crime scene officer with the myrtle beach police department. larry s time sheets indicated he was not working when the robberies occurred. investigators also discovered an interesting clue in the way the getaway vehicles were abandoned. they were so successful for so many years, that they just
lieutenant larry bellamy, and my initial reaction was, they ve made a bad mistake. there s no possible way that they ve got the right person or that they should even be looking at this particular person. larry vehemently denied any involvement in the robberies. alvin came home a short time later in the truck identified as the lookout vehicle. the fbi found $116 in brand-new bills in alvin s wallet. fresh, crisp 5s and 1s. i started writing down the serial numbers to the $1 and $5 bills. there was basically one of those ploys that you use. i told him that i was going to take them back to the bank and compare it with the stolen money from the bank. he got very agitated, got very upset, demanding he d never seen that money before. the next morning, investigators went to the third brother s home nearby.