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Speaker 7 The bank at Knoll had been robbed.

Speaker 8 There was no activated alarm.

Speaker 9 It's a potentially an inside job.

Speaker 10 The bank president was missing, along with about $83,000.

Speaker 7 He could either be the victim or involved in the theft of the money.

Speaker 14 I started to wish that he did rob the bank. Any scenario

Speaker 15 that allows him to be a lie.

Speaker 17 A body surfaced on the Grand Lake.

Speaker 9 We've had murders in this area before, but nothing on this magnitude.

Speaker 12 And it's like, is this for real?

Speaker 11 On the duct tape were three fingerprints.

Speaker 9 That was a significant development.

Speaker 8 Two brothers were bragging about stealing a large amount of money.

Speaker 15 He really just wanted to make his brother proud.

Speaker 10 A lot more loyalty there than any other two men.

Speaker 13 Cold-blooded killers.

Speaker 9 Noel, Missouri is a beautiful area in southwest Missouri. We're kind of in the middle of nowhere, but people are genuine and they're friendly.

Speaker 9 It's that typical small town feel that everybody knows everyone. So it's shocking what happened back in the fall of 1989.

Speaker 7 I was notified through our dispatcher and the sheriff's department that the bank at Knoll had been robbed. The bank employees came to work and found the bank was already open

Speaker 7 and there was money missing.

Speaker 7 When I arrived at the bank, it was obvious that things were in disarray.

Speaker 25 Inside the vault area was kind of a mess. The money had been taken.

Speaker 7 It's just protocol that if it's an FDIC bank, the FBI is going to become involved.

Speaker 26 I was at home.

Speaker 16 I had a call about 8 o'clock in the morning from State Bank of Knowle.

Speaker 28 And when I arrived at the bank, the local authorities were there, and that's when I assumed control of the crime scene.

Speaker 18 The examination of the bank premises quickly revealed the fact that there was no forced entry.

Speaker 8 There was no activated alarm.

Speaker 31 There was an alarm system with an override on it.

Speaker 34 If you knew the right code, you could override that alarm system.

Speaker 10 Possibly it was an inside job.

Speaker 36 The bank vault had certainly been ransacked.

Speaker 38 We know that on that particular day, they always got a shipment of money in, cash checks from the local poultry processing plant. That money was missing.

Speaker 22 They'd taken everything.

Speaker 35 The amount of the loss was about 83,000, including $34,100 bills.

Speaker 9 $4,000 was in coins. over 300 pounds worth of coins.

Speaker 22 It required more than one person.

Speaker 9 Bank robbers don't typically take coins. That's what made this particular crime very unique.

Speaker 20 We then set about examining the interior of the bank.

Speaker 7 The camera setup had been altered.

Speaker 41 The camera, the one and only camera, had been spray painted.

Speaker 6 The lens had been turned backwards and faced the corner.

Speaker 7 We also found some spent cartridges on the floor.

Speaker 28 The camera had been shot twice.

Speaker 35 two shots of a.45 caliber.

Speaker 22 It was strange that someone would go to that effort to include firing two shots into it.

Speaker 28 It was an act of bravado that indicated to me that this was amateurs.

Speaker 19 The examination of the bank revealed very little evidence of what happened.

Speaker 11 The camera was of no value. The two spent casings on the bank floor were of some value.

Speaker 22 Beyond that, very little existed.

Speaker 21 Along about that time, most bank employees were arriving, including the vice president and the tellers.

Speaker 46 There were about six employees.

Speaker 11 There was one very noticeable person that was unaccounted for.

Speaker 47 The bank president, Dan Short, was missing.

Speaker 6 We've We've tried to reach Dan by phone, and no one can contact him.

Speaker 24 His bank has been broken into, his whereabouts are unaccounted for.

Speaker 7 And naturally, Mr. Short would have had the keys to the bank.

Speaker 6 It was essential that we find Dan Short.

Speaker 22 In conversation with the bank vice president, we learned that Dan Short was separated from his wife.

Speaker 17 He lived alone in a remote area in Arkansas.

Speaker 7 When we got to Mr. Short's house,

Speaker 7 I walk in, he's not there. The house does not look like it's in disarray.

Speaker 7 We don't see any sign that anything's happened to him.

Speaker 20 We had found nothing in his house to indicate his whereabouts.

Speaker 22 He drove a little red medium-sized pickup and the pickup was gone.

Speaker 7 At this time, we had Arkansas and Missouri State troopers who were responding to find Mr. Short's truck and hopefully to find Mr.
Short.

Speaker 12 We began to interview all of Dan Short's associates, friends, even relatives, determine if the bank president was involved. Was he simply missing?

Speaker 8 Did he run away? Did he abscond?

Speaker 32 Dan Short had a good reputation in the community.

Speaker 6 He was a likable guy. He was a person that was just very popular.

Speaker 14 The FBI wanted lots of background information about my dad. All that they said to me at that time was that the bank had been robbed and that my father was missing.

Speaker 9 Things that you have to consider if it's potentially an inside job.

Speaker 9 What is their family situation? Were their troubles at home?

Speaker 26 Were their troubles at work?

Speaker 14 In the time that I lived with my dad in 88, 89, he did seem to come home with more stress on his shoulders from his business problems.

Speaker 14 I remember him having a lot more headaches and being a lot more fatigued. Maybe the last two years that he was banking in Knoll, just mentally and emotionally, you could see it in his eyes.

Speaker 6 The FDIC had found some things in the State Bank of Knoll in the operations.

Speaker 31 They were out of compliance.

Speaker 32 you don't want the feds to come in and tell you that they're not happy with you they started coming to the state bank of knoll more often which put more of a burden on dan short to comply with what they wanted done

Speaker 14 there's no scenario that i could think of that would be bad enough that he would ever break the law and and more importantly that he would ever leave my brother and i just wouldn't happen.

Speaker 9 Word spread very quickly in a community like this. You didn't have to put it on the radio or newspaper.

Speaker 19 It was word of mouth.

Speaker 7 Later that night, we get a call that a truck has been found and they think it belongs to Mr. Short.
We respond there.

Speaker 48 McDonald County Pod, McDonald County, I have the vehicle on top of Saratoga Hill, Sibley Barnes.

Speaker 49 Okay, secure it, don't let anybody near it.

Speaker 7 We ran the registration plate on the truck and the truck was registered to Mr. Dan Short.

Speaker 7 We found a lot of coins laying in the floorboard.

Speaker 7 Coins were in rollers, so that money was obviously from the bank.

Speaker 10 That led us to believe that the truck had been involved in hauling the bags of coins from the bank, at least to that location.

Speaker 8 It's a logical thing you do to leave your truck behind, switch to another vehicle, and make your getaway.

Speaker 38 Dan Shirt's missing, the bank's been robbed, and somebody had to have the keys to the front door to get in.

Speaker 7 He could be the one who actually was involved in the theft of the money.

Speaker 42 We receive a call, a body floating in Grand Lake.

Speaker 8 Now we're dealing with a capital crime.

Speaker 9 Whoever the perpetrators were, this is a pretty heinous crime.

Speaker 30 On October 6, 1989, the Estate Bank of NOAA had been robbed, cleaned out during the night. The bank president, Dan Short, was missing.

Speaker 6 We found his truck left abandoned, and there were quite a number of loose coins in the bed of the truck.

Speaker 22 We're out looking everywhere for him.

Speaker 7 We don't know if he's involved in the theft or not.

Speaker 6 During the afternoon of the first day of the investigation, we learned that earlier that morning, a neighbor of Dan Short reported to the Arkansas Police Department that she had seen an incident the night of the robbery.

Speaker 6 Around 2 a.m., she was awakened by a noise out front.

Speaker 51 She looked out her front window and saw two individuals on the ground wrestling.

Speaker 10 One got up, his hands restrained behind him, tried to run around the corner of the house.

Speaker 17 The other individual tackled him, stopped him.

Speaker 30 And then a third individual arrived and the two drug the first individual bound on his back to a vehicle.

Speaker 8 According to the neighbor, the bound individual was Mr.

Speaker 30 Short.

Speaker 6 She saw only vaguely the suspects and the vehicle, but described it as a van, a two-colored brown van.

Speaker 9 Based on the information, we believe Dan Short was kidnapped from his home and he was forced to open up the safe.

Speaker 11 It became clear to us that Dan Short was involuntarily involved.

Speaker 30 The question is, where is Dan Short?

Speaker 7 That was our gravest concern that harm has come to Mr. Short.

Speaker 19 The FBI began to look through his credit card accounts, telephone calls, anything that might indicate his whereabouts.

Speaker 7 The Sheriff's Department had a mounted posse and We were just looking in an area along the highways and in the remote areas.

Speaker 10 We were trying to find Mr.

Speaker 19 Short and identify possible perpetrators.

Speaker 52 And we began to look for people in the area who were spending money that had no known capability of having that kind of money.

Speaker 16 People who had the potential of commit such a crime.

Speaker 15 Joe Sr. and Sheila Ogoski got married in 1965 and they settled down in rural Knoll, Missouri.

Speaker 15 They had their first son, Joe Jr., in 1965.

Speaker 15 Shannon followed in 1971, their second son.

Speaker 19 Their father worked for some oil company.

Speaker 21 They were a more wealthy family in the town.

Speaker 15 So throughout the 1970s, life for the Agofsky family is actually pretty good.

Speaker 15 Unfortunately, on March 8th, in 1980, Joe Sr. was on a business trip to Mexico.
The two-engine plane crashed.

Speaker 25 Their father died in that plane crash. They acquired some type of settlement.

Speaker 15 Sheila is given a large sum of money, and both boys are given money that is put into a trust that they can't access until they turn 21.

Speaker 9 According to reports, they each received in that settlement as much as $100,000.

Speaker 25 And in the meantime, Sheila Nagofsky's settlement allowed them to be some of the more wealthy children in old Missouri who were able to purchase things and kind of do what they wanted.

Speaker 15 Joe was 14, so practically a young man, and Shannon had just turned nine. Joe really became a father figure to Shannon, and this was something that bonded them very closely together.

Speaker 53 In 1981, I opened the first martial arts school in Noel, Missouri. One of the first students that we had was Shannon Ogofsky.
He was nine years old.

Speaker 15 After his father passed away, Shannon became very confrontational, even aggressive.

Speaker 15 His cockiness, his bravado definitely surfaced.

Speaker 53 Shannon Mogoski was one of our star students. He was very confident and outgoing.

Speaker 25 Joe, on the other hand, was a pretty quiet guy.

Speaker 15 Joe was the strong, silent one who was leading the way. He was not the kind of person who would tell you what was on his mind.
He definitely didn't like confrontation.

Speaker 25 He was more of a mechanic and liked to do mechanic work.

Speaker 15 Joe absolutely loved cars. He collected cars and liked to put them back together.

Speaker 53 In his early 20s, he had had a couple of those really nice sports cars.

Speaker 15 By the time that Joe is 23, he has already burned through all of the money that was given to him after his father's death.

Speaker 22 They went overboard on their spending.

Speaker 9 They weren't very wise on some of their choices.

Speaker 15 Shannon, who is 18 years old, has not been able to access his trust. Effectively, he was broke as well.

Speaker 15 So they turned to more insidious ways to try to finance their lifestyle.

Speaker 15 They got involved in running stolen guns across state lines.

Speaker 15 Joe was the one who instigated these activities, but I think that Shannon was more than willing to participate.

Speaker 15 He was kind of a daredevil. He liked the thrill, and most of all, he really just wanted to make Joe proud.

Speaker 25 These young men were used to having money and needed to find a way to acquire more money, so they devised a plan to acquire more wealth.

Speaker 50 During the first day of the investigation, a neighbor reported having seen Dan Short abducted from his residence by two perpetrators.

Speaker 30 Now, the theory is that most likely Dan Short had been taken to the bank and had been forced to assist them in gaining entry into the vault, but we still had to find Dan Short.

Speaker 33 We drove back roads, we looked vacant buildings, we did everything we could to find Dan Dan Shore.

Speaker 38 We concentrated our search for four days just on trying to find where he might be.

Speaker 30 We developed no more information on a viable suspect than we had not found Dan Shore.

Speaker 38 We couldn't find him if he was alive or we couldn't find his body if he was dead.

Speaker 15 Days went by.

Speaker 14 I started to wish that the scenario was such that he did rob the bank and that he did take the money and that he did leave the country.

Speaker 15 You start to bargain

Speaker 14 with

Speaker 14 any scenario

Speaker 14 that allows him to be alive.

Speaker 42 October the the 11th, five days after the bank robbery, we receive a call from a couple

Speaker 42 that reported what they believed to be a body floating in Grand Lake.

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Speaker 44 On October the 11th, five days after the robbery, abduction of Dan Short,

Speaker 10 a body was observed having surfaced just off the Cal Scan Bridge on the Grand Lake in Oklahoma.

Speaker 39 Upon arrival, we met with the reporting parties that discovered the body. They had actually attached the body to their boat and towed the body into the dock.

Speaker 39 And that's where we first came into contact with the body.

Speaker 39 With the recent disappearance of Dan Short in the neighboring county, it did become relevant to us to contact the FBI almost instantly.

Speaker 30 When we arrived, several people were already there, including Sheriff Ark of Delaware County, Oklahoma.

Speaker 42 We got the body out of the water and got it up on the dock.

Speaker 39 The body was in bad shape,

Speaker 39 but we did find the driver's license for Mr. Short on the body.

Speaker 28 At that point, it was obvious that that was the body of Dan Short.

Speaker 16 They had placed the body on the marina wharf.

Speaker 18 A wooden chair was attached to the body.

Speaker 39 He was wrapped in several different areas with gray duct tape.

Speaker 10 He was taped around the chest.

Speaker 19 He was taped at the ankle.

Speaker 47 The tape to the ankle remained intact, which was also taped to the chair and apparatus.

Speaker 8 The tape across the chest broke, therefore the body was unattached from the chair except for the ankle.

Speaker 20 Taped to the back of that chair was a concrete block.

Speaker 16 taped to the bottom and to some extent to Dan Short was a old-fashioned chain hoist.

Speaker 39 It was just real apparent that these items were attached in an attempt to weight the body down. Somebody took extreme measures to see that this body wasn't discovered.

Speaker 12 We made a decision there at the scene to sever what I call an apparatus.

Speaker 26 a wooden chair, concrete block, and chain hoist from the body so that the body could be taken to the examiners for the autopsy.

Speaker 30 All that apparatus was flown back to the FBI laboratory, Washington, D.C.

Speaker 20 for examination.

Speaker 42 When we recovered Dan Shorts' body, it was big news.

Speaker 42 A lot of TV stations were calling and coming, wanting interviews.

Speaker 23 Authorities found the body of bank president Dan Shorts floating in a northwest Oklahoma lake.

Speaker 14 I remember it being dark in our house and

Speaker 14 turning,

Speaker 15 excuse me,

Speaker 14 turning on the news

Speaker 14 and

Speaker 15 splashed across the 10 o'clock news

Speaker 14 was the body removed from Grand Lake this afternoon is believed to be the body of the missing banker Dan Short.

Speaker 14 And I just remember sitting on the couch

Speaker 24 thinking,

Speaker 14 this isn't real.

Speaker 14 This isn't real.

Speaker 24 And then the FBI walked through our front door.

Speaker 14 My mom had told me, if it's a phone call, it's good news.

Speaker 14 If they come in person, it's bad news.

Speaker 14 And I could tell from the look on their face face that it was him.

Speaker 9 We've had murders in this area before, but nothing on this magnitude.

Speaker 24 The next day, the results came back from the medical examiner.

Speaker 30 There was no indication of a gunshot, knife wound, any other injury.

Speaker 16 So it was concluded that the cause of death was in fact drowning.

Speaker 22 The body had been in the water for some days.

Speaker 30 About five days, which was consistent with the number of days since the robbery and the abduction.

Speaker 20 The finding of the body of Dan Short changed the complexity of the investigation from a robbery with a missing banker now to the robbery and a murdered banker.

Speaker 17 Now we're dealing with a capital crime.

Speaker 9 The chair and the cinder block and chain pull had been shipped back to the FBI laboratory and was being carefully analyzed by a fingerprint specialist.

Speaker 10 If we had fingerprints, they can perhaps lead us to who murdered Van Short.

Speaker 26 During the afternoon of October the 11th, Van Short's body was recovered in the lake along with a wooden chair with a concrete block and a chain horse.

Speaker 9 Back at the FBI laboratory being carefully analyzed.

Speaker 27 There was no fingerprint of any quality.

Speaker 8 We didn't even develop a latent fingerprint.

Speaker 26 We had little or no forensic evidence at that point from the body or the chair apparatus.

Speaker 6 We're still at square one.

Speaker 42 A couple of days after we recovered Dan Short's body, the command post got a call from a lady named Shirley Butler. She reported seeing something possibly connected with Dan Short's murder.

Speaker 21 Shirley Butler reported that she had been driving to work around three o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 41 on the night of the robbery and murder and observed when when approaching the Fukowskian Bridge the activity on the bridge.

Speaker 42 She sees a brown van parked on the bridge and it looked really suspicious.

Speaker 8 There was activity at the rear of the van

Speaker 6 and as she approached the activity ceased and the vehicles left.

Speaker 17 She didn't see any debris or any indication of anything left behind on the bridge.

Speaker 44 She described a two-colored brown van, which matches the van described by the neighbor of Dan Short as involved in the abduction.

Speaker 16 Of course, Mr.

Speaker 35 Short's body was found floating just to the side of the Cowscan Bridge.

Speaker 16 What she saw was probably the killing of Dan Short.

Speaker 9 Dan Short appeared to have been thrown off the bridge into the water where he subsequently drowned and died.

Speaker 9 Whoever the perpetrators were, this is a heinous crime.

Speaker 9 The photo was released of the chair to the news media.

Speaker 24 The authorities were looking for help in any way they could find it.

Speaker 9 Any clues?

Speaker 10 During the next few days of the investigation, we identified numerous possible suspects,

Speaker 26 known bank robbers, convicted bank robbers, who all had the capability of committing such a crime.

Speaker 29 We conducted polygraph examinations, in-depth interviews.

Speaker 46 One by one, those were eliminated.

Speaker 42 In a case like this, we had a tip line set up.

Speaker 13 We were still looking for clues.

Speaker 42 Sometimes you get the one that helps solve the case.

Speaker 38 We were getting hundreds of calls,

Speaker 38 but there was an anonymous phone call about the Agowski brothers.

Speaker 6 The caller claimed that two brothers in Noel, Joe and Shannon Agowski,

Speaker 10 were bragging about stealing a large amount of coins in a recent crime.

Speaker 38 The Agowski brothers had never been in any trouble with the law. They were local kids.
They grew up here.

Speaker 22 We went out to where they lived and they were brought in and, of course, was interviewed by the FBI.

Speaker 54 Joe was in his early 20s.

Speaker 9 Shannon was 18 years old.

Speaker 10 Joe, the older of the two, was quieter, certainly more reserved.

Speaker 9 Shannon, on the other hand, seemed to be very cocky, very assured of himself.

Speaker 51 Both Agoski brothers were cooperative.

Speaker 8 Both denied any involvement.

Speaker 51 or knowledge of the bank robbery and murder of Dan Short.

Speaker 20 Joe's alibi was that he was in Joplin, Missouri with his girlfriend on the night of the abduction and murder and could therefore have no part in it.

Speaker 21 Shannon stated he was at home with his mother.

Speaker 6 Both appeared to be telling the truth.

Speaker 27 There was no evidence linking them to anything.

Speaker 20 So we had to let them go.

Speaker 45 At that point, there's still no other suspects developed.

Speaker 16 No other evidence had developed on any other person.

Speaker 49 In October of 89, I live on Grand Lake, just southwest of Cowskim Bridge. It was a big story that they had found Dan Short.

Speaker 49 Nothing like that ever happens around here.

Speaker 49 A few days after they had found the body, I take the kids fishing.

Speaker 22 My son and I were walking the bank and we came upon this piece of tape.

Speaker 49 There was a piece of duct tape

Speaker 49 and I had a stick and I pick it up and I look at it and I do see the three fingerprints on it.

Speaker 49 I called the authorities and the FBI showed up.

Speaker 9 We took custody of the duct tape that was recovered from the shoreline in the vicinity of the Cowskin Bridge.

Speaker 18 We observed three rusty, greasy residue fingerprints.

Speaker 11 Very evident.

Speaker 35 Full prints.

Speaker 34 Liddell and I look at each other and our eyes get big and it's like, is this for real?

Speaker 28 I turned to Agent Jim Edwards and I said, Jimmy, this is too good to be true.

Speaker 20 On October 13th, some duct tape was recovered by an individual who lived on the lake near where Dan Short's body surfaced.

Speaker 18 On the duct tape were three fingerprints.

Speaker 8 At that point, we had no idea if we could prove that tape came from the chair Dan Short's body was attached to, but it was a major development.

Speaker 9 We shipped the tape with the fingerprints back to the FBI laboratory to the same group of examiners who were looking at the chair.

Speaker 20 We had no idea at that point whose fingerprints those were, but they're of no value unless that tape was connected to the apparatus tape.

Speaker 22 When you tear a piece of duct tape, you're going to have two ends that obviously go back together perfectly.

Speaker 9 After analysis of all the pieces, we received word that the tape found by Rowdy Foreman was matched to the tape that remained on the chair.

Speaker 9 That was a significant development.

Speaker 30 Our task at that point was to find the suspect who left those fingerprints on the tape.

Speaker 9 In 1989, we did have a fingerprint database,

Speaker 9 but the fingerprints were not contained within the FBI database.

Speaker 51 So we knew we were dealing most most likely with a non-felon, a non-criminal record suspect, so to speak, which matched with the original theory that this was amateurs.

Speaker 9 We didn't have the names of individuals to focus on, but we were hoping to generate potential leads.

Speaker 9 During the investigation, we had disseminated the picture of the chair through print and TV media.

Speaker 6 After several months of the investigation, we received a report from an individual in McDonald County named Wayne Butane.

Speaker 52 Wayne came in voluntarily and said that he believed that chain horse belonged to him.

Speaker 6 In interviewing Wayne Butane, he described the chain horse to include certain identifying marks on it and broken parts.

Speaker 30 Wayne viewed pictures of it and made a positive identification of the chain horse.

Speaker 6 Wayne said he had left that chain horse at the residence in Noel that he was renting.

Speaker 46 He had moved out shortly before the bank robbery.

Speaker 41 After two or three days from moving, he went back to retrieve his chain horse and found it was gone.

Speaker 16 That property was owned by Sheila Agoski and her son, Shannon Agoski.

Speaker 10 The name Agoski came up again.

Speaker 6 So now we're back to the Agoskis, who we had previously interviewed.

Speaker 44 Both were interviewed a second time.

Speaker 8 Both denied any involvement yet again.

Speaker 16 So we looked again at the Agoski brothers' alibis.

Speaker 9 Joe Agoski, his alibi was that he was with his girlfriend, Zinjoplin, the night of the crime. However, based on a review of phone records that were available, revealed that he wasn't.

Speaker 9 He was at his residence in Noll.

Speaker 9 So that pretty much discredited his alibi.

Speaker 10 The question aloomed, why would these two brothers have anything to do with the robbery of the State Bank of Noel or the killing of Dan Short?

Speaker 6 From several people in McDonald County, it was reported that Shannon bragged that he was the richest 18-year-old in McDonald County.

Speaker 42 They had had money, and then all of a sudden they don't got it. People get used to having money.

Speaker 51 The Agowski brothers were short cash.

Speaker 8 So therefore, you would wonder, is money the motive?

Speaker 9 The financial aspect became a key part of the investigation.

Speaker 52 History has it, and tradition is that bank robbers don't take money to hide and to put it in a fruit jar.

Speaker 36 They spend it.

Speaker 9 Through interviews and investigation, we determined that Joe Agoski was spending a large amount of money.

Speaker 35 Since October the 6th, Joe had spent about $24,000 in cash, almost all $100 bills, when he had no known source of income.

Speaker 16 The money taken from the bank included $34,100 bills.

Speaker 30 Very suspicious.

Speaker 9 At that point, we felt that it would be extremely prudent to get the fingerprints of both Shannon and Joseph Ogoski for comparison to the fingerprints that were found on the tape.

Speaker 52 I went to Joe, asked if he would voluntarily have his fingerprints taken, and he voluntarily did.

Speaker 9 Joe Agoski's fingerprints were sent back to the FBI laboratory. Shannon, on the other hand, was very elusive and would not provide his fingerprints.

Speaker 52 As an FBI agent, we had no authority to force him.

Speaker 37 It's either voluntarily or court order.

Speaker 24 There was no art evidence linking them to anything at that point.

Speaker 6 So we didn't give them a court order.

Speaker 6 A few days later, I received a call from the fingerprint examiner who notified me that the fingerprints of Joe were almost identical to those on the duct tape, but were not identical.

Speaker 35 He also told me that siblings often have very similar fingerprint patterns.

Speaker 9 More than likely, the fingerprints could belong to a relative of Joseph Agoski.

Speaker 9 So we now need to go get Shannon Agoski's fingerprints.

Speaker 44 It's March of 1990, five months after the robbery of the State Bank of Noel and the killing of Dan Shore.

Speaker 24 We had fingerprints.

Speaker 9 The fingerprint analysts discovered striking similarities between Joseph Agoski's fingerprints and those on the tape that was found by Rowdy Foreman.

Speaker 9 Because of those similarities, the fingerprints maybe belonged to a relative of Joseph Agoski.

Speaker 51 With the fingerprints of Joe Agoski, an almost match.

Speaker 51 The federal grand jury bishop of subpoena to obtain Shannon's fingerprints involuntarily.

Speaker 9 Shannon Agoski's fingerprints were sent back to the FBI laboratory for analysis.

Speaker 9 Shannon's fingerprints were identified on the tape.

Speaker 25 And that obviously is a very crucial part of the evidence. The fingerprints of Shannon Agoski, which really is

Speaker 25 the smoking gun in this case.

Speaker 9 The Agoskis were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy, for use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and aggravated bank robbery.

Speaker 9 And under the federal bank robbery statute, the death of a bank president meant they could receive the death penalty.

Speaker 8 The investigation revealed that Shannon was talking about moving to South America.

Speaker 30 So that led us to move expeditiously to prevent them from fleeing.

Speaker 9 Joe Ogoski had a job at a chicken hatchery.

Speaker 9 Myself and another agent traveled to his workplace,

Speaker 9 called him out to the lobby, and told him he was under arrest.

Speaker 9 Joe went willingly.

Speaker 8 Shannon was arrested in Rogers, Arkansas,

Speaker 10 and was brought back to Springfield in federal custody to await trial.

Speaker 9 After the Agoski brothers were arrested and behind bars, people could rest at night a little bit better knowing that someone has been charged with this crime.

Speaker 25 Joe and Shannon Agoski never made a confession, either written or oral confession to any law enforcement that they actually committed these crimes.

Speaker 25 We all were able to put these pieces of evidence all together to determine what actually happened.

Speaker 9 Bank records show that Joe Agoski rented a safe deposit box at the State Bank of Knoll not long before the crime. The suspects knew Dan Short, they knew where he lived.

Speaker 9 This was very well thought out, what transpired on the night of October 6th, 1989.

Speaker 9 The picture that we were able to obtain is that Dan Short, president of the State Bank of Knoll, was kidnapped by Shannon and Joe Ogoski from his residence near Sulphur Springs, Arkansas.

Speaker 9 He was forcibly taken to the bank in Knoll, Missouri.

Speaker 22 They took his truck so they could park it out there in front of the bank, and people would think that he was in there working.

Speaker 25 At that point, they used Dan Short to acquire access to the bank.

Speaker 9 Dan Short was forced to open up the bank vault from which over $8,000 was taken.

Speaker 47 They abandoned Dan Short's truck west of Knowle.

Speaker 25 Then Joe and Shandigowski drove across the state line into Oklahoma,

Speaker 7 where they tied Mr.

Speaker 25 Short to a chair with a chain hoist and a cinder block

Speaker 25 and threw him over the railing of Kowskin Bridge.

Speaker 35 Neither of the Yagoski brothers ever incriminated the other one or himself.

Speaker 52 Never admitted a thing.

Speaker 18 Blood Brothers.

Speaker 35 A lot more loyalty there than any other two men.

Speaker 9 Collective decision is made that the Yagoski brothers would be tried federally in the state of Missouri.

Speaker 9 The physical evidence from the fingerprints on the tape was very crucial evidence in the federal trial.

Speaker 9 Joe and Shannon Ogoski were found guilty of the federal charges, conspiracy, aggravated bank robbery, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Speaker 9 They were both sentenced to life in prison, plus five years.

Speaker 14 When the verdict was reached in the federal trial, trial, I was there.

Speaker 14 It was an amazing feeling because for the first time,

Speaker 14 I knew justice was beginning to be served for the death of my father.

Speaker 33 Knowing that he was tossed off of that bridge,

Speaker 34 still alive.

Speaker 42 to drowned in that lake

Speaker 32 without the ability to even move in that chair.

Speaker 32 Tragic event.

Speaker 9 When I hear the words of Gosky brothers, I think of cold-blooded killers.

Speaker 23 The most heinous crime

Speaker 22 that I ever reported upon.

Speaker 14 We had a bench built in the cemetery where my dad is buried to give our family a place to remember him. And the quote reads, love

Speaker 15 is how you stay alive

Speaker 14 even after you're gone.

Speaker 14 And that death ends life. It does not end a relationship.

Speaker 14 There will be situations, occasions, narrow escapes. All of those cool things that spontaneously happen in life.
And my boys and I have adopted that. And we've called them Grandpa Dan moments.

Speaker 14 Meaning that he's looking down and lending a hand for the big and the small stuff as often as he can.

Speaker 3 It's all a light-hearted nightmare on our podcast, Morbid.

Speaker 55 We're your hosts. I'm Alina Urquhart, and I'm Ash Kelly.

Speaker 3 And our show is part true crime, part spooky, and part comedy.

Speaker 56 The stories we cover are well researched.

Speaker 57 Of the 880 men who survived the attack, around 400 would eventually find their way to one another and merge into one larger group.

Speaker 56 With a touch of humor.

Speaker 57 Shout out to her. Shout out to all my therapists out there.
There's been like eight of them.

Speaker 56 A dash of sarcasm and just garnished a bit with a little bit of cursing.

Speaker 21 That motherfucker is not real.

Speaker 3 And if you're a weirdo like us and love to cozy up to a creepy tale of the paranormal, or you love to hop in the Way Back Machine and dissect the details of some of history's most notorious crimes, you should tune in to our podcast, Morbid.

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