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claude bellamy was a heavy-set man with a similar build to the man in the security pictures. he was also a former policeman. he also denied any involvement in the robberies, and investigators found no large sums of money in his home. but in his bedroom closet, investigators found a black and white check jacket. it happened to be the only garment hanging in that closet, which was interesting to me, why he would have this coat hanging separately in a room he didn t use, in a closet he didn t appear to use. the closet was sent to fbi expert david davies. he s a photographic technologist with 20 years experience in garment identification. at first glance, davies knew he was dealing with a mass-produced product. you could have 10 million jackets that look like that. davies used computer enhancement software to improve
in the surveillance pictures, davies noticed another distinctive mark, a discoloration in the fabric on the left sleeve. i saw a little light mark in what should have been a gray square. you re seeing the white threads that s below the dyed gray. he found the same anomaly, a tear in the material in the exact same spot on bellamy s jacket. i was absolutely sure that it was that jacket. so there s no doubt whatsoever? no doubt. the examination of the plaid shirt by the fbi was exceptional. we ve never seen or heard of this before. this is a new process to us. what i couldn t tell was who the bank robber was. but what i could tell was, the jacket robbed the bank. investigators now had to prove that one of the bellamy brothers wore the jacket, and
that individual followed both 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
claude bellamy was a heavy-set man with a similar build to the man in the security pictures. he was also a former policeman. he also denied any involvement in the robberies, and investigators found no large sums of money in his home. but in his bedroom closet investigators found a black and white check jacket. it happened to be the only garment hanging in that closet, which was interesting to me, why he would have this coat hanging separately in a room he didn t use, in a closet he didn t appear to use. the closet was sent to fbi expert david davies. he s a photographic technologist with 20 years experience in garment identification. at first glance, davies knew he was dealing with a mass-produced product. you could have 10 million jackets that look like that. davies used computer