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"Some robbers wear ski masks; others don face-obscuring cowboy hats and glasses. To his own criminal uniform, the 240-pound, six-foot-tall, middle-aged William Guess added an item of clothing that would betray his middle-class identity and become a signature of his yearslong, bank-busting spree: a collared polo shirt.

As the so-called Polo Shirt Bandit, Guess robbed more banks than Jesse James, John Dillinger, Willie Sutton, or Bonnie and Clyde over nearly a decade in the eighties and nineties. After Guess died by suicide following a police chase in 1996, writer Helen Thorpe reconstructed the story of his life to try and understand how a bourgeois Texan who lacked ambition went on to become the state’s most prolific serial bank robber."