Interview with Caroline Giammanco and Keith Giammanco
Caroline Giammanco
author of "Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit"
Michael Carter
Co-Host
Caroline Giammanco, author of "Bank Notes: The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit"
Caroline Giammanco's Website
Caroline Giammanco is an author, educator, and criminal justice reform advocate. She grew up on a farm in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri. After high school, she attended the University of Arizona in Tucson, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She later completed the post-baccalaureate education program at the University of Arizona. She has taught English in public schools for over twenty years in Arizona, New Mexico and now Missouri.
Bank Notes is her first book, and it follows the journey of the middle class, single father of twins, who was a successful independent stock options trader before falling on hard economic times during the Great Recession. He becomes known as the Boonie Hat Bandit as he delves into a year-long double life of loving father and notorious bank robber.
Her second release, entitled Guilty Hearts, gives readers an inside look into the seldom understood world of prison relationships. What makes a woman stay with a man who is behind bars? The answers may surprise you, and the success of those relationships may mean the difference between life and death for you or a loved one.
Inside the Death Fences, an expose of the corruption that permeates the United States prison system. Told through her own shocking experiences as a teacher inside a maximum-security men’s prison, her eye-opening true story will make readers rethink what they thought they knew about the world of corrections.
Her current release, Into the Night, is a science fiction and paranormal short story collection that is sure to take readers down twisted paths.
Bank Robber Extraordinaire
The True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit
St. Louis, Missouri, is gripped by a rapid series of twelve bank robberies that leave local and federal authorities completely baffled. Dubbed the ‘Boonie Hat Bandit’ by the fascinated public, this infamous criminal methodically robs banks in broad daylight leaving no clues, causing everyone to wonder, Who is this man? Law enforcement is scrambling, and the robberies make national news.
In September 2008, the gentleman bandit is apprehended and the stunned world finds out his shocking identity: Donald Keith Giammanco, a quiet, middle-class, single father of twin daughters. The big mystery remains: How and why would he enter a life of crime? In spite of repeated requests to tell his story, Keith Giammanco refuses to give any insight into his motivations for years—not, that is, until now.
Written by the woman he falls in love with while in prison, Bank Notes delves into the thoughts and motivations of a notorious bank robber who is anything but the typical criminal, and the disastrous results of his robbery spree.