Suspect in 1993 British heist, found working as cable guy in southwestern Missouri
In a story that sounds straight out of an episode of Dateline, a man wanted in Britain fo pulling a £1 million bank heist was found working as a cable guy in Ozark, Missouri. “Fast” Eddie Maher had been sought since he worked as a bank delivery-truck driver in Felixstowe, England, in January 1993 and vanished with his truck’s cash. British police determined that Maher drove off with the money while his partner was inside. The day after the theft, he met his girlfriend and son in Boston, then vanished.
After being on the run for 20 years, the law finally found Maher Wednesday, working for Suddenlink Communications in the southwestern Missouri town. Maher’s arrest came just two weeks after the Ipswich Star ran a piece about the crime’s 20th anniversary. The paper eerily predicted that he might never be found: “While no case is ever truly dead, there is always the chance that new evidence to lead detectives to Maher could come forward. But after all this time a mistake by the thief remains the best chance of him being found. That would seem unlikely as the master criminal has survived two decades so far, but it can never be ruled out.”
