Barefoot and Busted

Alleged “Barefoot Bandit” Jennings Palmer captured after seven long weeks.

Barefoot and Busted

Homewood Bank Robber Caught by Police

Home-wood Police captured the “Barefoot Bandit” yesterday. High tech forensics cracked the case.

Beginning May 1, a spate of troubling bank robberies in the Homewood-Flossmoor area have vexed law enforcement There were seven holdups in all by a young man wearing a ski mask, ski gloves, and no shoes by the name of "Bigfoot Bandit" or Jennings Palmer

“He seemed nervous. I remember his hands were shaking when I gave him the money,” said Sandy McConnell, 32, a bank teller at Kerry Trust National Bank.

Between May 1 and June 22, Jennings Palmer, 32, robbed a bank once a week.

Fingerprint Specialist Peter J. Dodd noted, “We had a case where we matched a suspect’s forehead print that he left on the window of a jewelry store that he was casing. And there is a new biometric technology that matches vein patterns of hands.”

In the end, the "Barefoot Bandit" was caught red footed.

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