Carl Gugasian - Capture and Incarceration

Capture and Incarceration

In the end, despite his meticulous planning and execution, it was a simple case of bad luck that led the police to Gugasian's home. He had hidden all the details and equipment for his robberies, his maps, face masks, survival rations, weapons and ammunition in a concrete drainage pipe, sealed inside individual PVC pipes, which were found by two young teenage boys who were playing in the woods near their home in Radnor, Pennsylvania. This find enabled police to construct a more accurate profile and, after questioning local residents, they had a list of names, which eventually led to Gugasian's arrest.

Once arrested, Gugasian proved to be just as meticulous in providing help to the police in closing the book on all his unsolved crimes as he had been in robbing the banks, which resulted in a reduction of his initial 115-year sentence down to seventeen years. He is currently serving his time at the Federal Correctional Institution at Fairton, New Jersey, where he teaches calculus to other inmates. He is due to be released in the summer of 2021, by which time he will be 73 years old.

On July 26, 2007, Gugasian became the suspect in an unsolved bank robbery that had occurred in Susquehanna Township, Pennsylvania, more than 26 years earlier. At the time of that robbery, Sergeant Robert "Bo" McCallister had responded to the bank's alarm and confronted the robber at the scene, who then fled. McCallister gave chase, but was shot and seriously injured and the robber managed to escape. Lt. Richard Pastucka visited Gugasian at the prison where he is being held and questioned him about the crime, but a confession was not forthcoming.