all right. allen and peppe have shared more in common than checkers. both have battled addictions to drugs and alcohol and for peppe it s been a very long battle. my drug of choice is speed balls, which is half cocaine and half heroin, injected simultaneously. it s a very dangerous high but i feel it s the best high in the world. but peppe was much more than a run of the mill drug addict. i ve been a burglar basically all my life, and banks were my favorite place, because banks have money. it s like if you want to steal a car, you go to a car lot, if you want to steal groceries, go to a supermarket and shoplift. if you want money, i think the best place for me was a bank. peppe has been robbing banks since the 1960s. his heists were like something out of a movie. i sort of was a leader of the gang.
to the teller. and though the fbi won t discuss what it says, they will confirm that its content is extremely violent in nature. his notes have very specific threats. this is not a pathetic old man. this is a man who is using a gun, he is threatening, he is pointing at the victim tellers, and he s got very specific language that is violent language in his notes. it s not just give me all your money. this is a very violent crime, and it scares those tellers. many of them suffer traumatic issues over time because of this. watching the surveillance video, it seems incongruous that an old man is robbing banks. but according to special agent bodich, that may be the secret to his success. he is not coming in looking like a thug. some people have good situational awareness. some people don t. some people go in and they re in their own world.
click my clicker button. jon: oh. of i m going to come open the door for you. reporter: you re such a gentleman. jenna, i asked jon scott if he had a nice warm hat, and he does, he has one of those ski masks that you go rob a bank in. jenna: well, now we know. [laughter] reporter: he won t be robbing banks, of course, but he s dressed appropriately. jon: thank you. stay warm. jenna: dual purposes. freezing temperatures settling over the midwest for the second day in a row, the mercury reaching subzero levels that haven t been seen in some 20 years. garrett tenny thinks janice dean s basically in the heat at this point, being what he s experiencing out in chicago, right, garrett? reporter: it s so true, jenna. you need to learn some of those dances from j.d. while we re at it just to stay warm. you can sees the warming up. this is the salt that they have been laying on the street pretty much all throughout the weekend and back into last week. it is finally warming up just enough.
very, very cooperative and polite. when questioned by police, e pedro has no problem bragging about the crimes he s committed. especially about robbing banks. he told detectives the only reason he did it is because that s where the money is.