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A man describes how he turned to robbing banks to pay for IVF.

"None of what you're about to hear is inspired by a true story. It is a true story," says Reed Domingo at the start of each podcast episode of "Time with Mr Reed." Domingo robbed 12 banks in San Diego, California. "I didn't hurt anyone, I never wanted to. I did it all for love and to pay for the devastating debts wracked up by IVF, needed by my wife and I to start a family."

Listen: Time with Mr Reed

Read: Emily Shugerman. "The ‘Easy Rider’ Bandit Robbed 12 Banks. Now He Reveals Why." The Daily Beast. 27 Mar 2023.

Here's how the Daily Beast article starts:

"Ridwaan Domingo awoke on the morning of June 3, 2002, to the sound of FBI agents banging on his door.

Domingo was a U.K.-raised, boarding-school-educated son of a successful South African businessman. He’d relocated to the U.S. to work for his father’s company more than a decade earlier, which is where he met Patrice, the beautiful blonde sleeping next to him.

Together they had a daughter, Angelique, whom they affectionately called “Chummy,” and lived in a sunny yellow house on 6.5 acres of land, surrounded by 600 orange trees. Their life in San Diego—”America’s finest city,” as Domingo called it, without a trace of irony—seemed near-perfect.

But Domingo—and the FBI agents standing on his porch—knew something no one else in the house did: The 36-year-old computer programmer was also the notorious 'Easy Rider bandit,' wanted for robbing 12 banks in Southern California.

The arrival of the FBI agents that morning set off a chain of events that would keep the family apart for years. Two decades later, Domingo is out of prison, desperate to reunite with his wife and child, and telling his side of the story—including the surprising reason he went from bank worker to bank robber."