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What do you think of when you hear about someone on the FBI's Most Wanted List? Hardened criminals, without morals or any sense of right and wrong, ready to solve a dispute with a gun, right? But what if things weren't that cut and dried? What if the nice guy you hired to hook up your cable was Number Seven on the FBI's list? Les Rogge looks and acts just like your next-door neighbor. Yet in twenty years he may have robbed more banks than Jesse James and Bonnie and Clyde put together--without firing a shot. Caught and put in jail twice, he escaped--and went sailing around the Caribbean with his wife and dog! In Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals, Les details his adventures from Alaska to Antigua, the Chesapeake to Cancn, in everything from a converted shrimp boat at an abandoned marina to an R.V. at a Mayan ruin--and hundreds of vehicles and venues in between. But it all came to a halt when a fourteen-year-old in Guatemala forced him to turn himself in. Few felons have been as forthcoming about their successes, failures, robbery techniques, passion for sailing vessels... and love for his wife.
- Sales Rank: #1616614 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Nish Publishing Company
- Published on: 2010-06-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .46" w x 5.51" l, .57 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 218 pages
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"Leslie Rogge is an island in the stream of spell binding ultimates, a place where wild men playfully challenge the system, a place where desperado winds swirl a thousand lifetimes into a breeze." --George Jung, subject of book and movie “Blow” and author of “Grazing in the Grass until the Snow Came”
"Wanted" is, simply, a blast: funny, self-aware, amazingly informative about bank robbery, boats, cars, planes and -- far from least -- human nature.
Jesse Kornbluth 9-20-10 Head Butler
From the Author
Reader Views Literary Award Finalist for 2010
About the Author
Dane Batty is a technical writer, biographer and designer. He
is a proud husband and father of two and holds an MBA from
George Fox University. He lives near Portland, Oregon with his
family and enjoys motocross racing and golfing on the weekends.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Very interesting and then some
By Dennis Littrell
This is the kind of true crime story that you seldom get to read since it is essentially written by the perp himself, and perps usually don't bother putting their tale to print because convicted felons by law can't benefit financially from their stories.
I say "essentially" since onetime top ten most wanted criminal, "gentleman" bank robber Leslie Ibsen Rogge's writings have been organized, edited and annotated by his--let's face it--adoring nephew Dane Batty. Batty writes an intro, and comes on page from time to time to give some information or to set a scene amidst the fascinating narrative written by Rogge. I read the book in two settings. More devoted true crime readers will stay up until two in the morning and do it in one setting!
So here we have a guy who has several gifts. Obviously he has the gift of gab and is really a first class con artist as he proves again and again by talking people into doing things they normally would never do. Rogge is especially good at negotiating "deals" with cars, boats, house trailers--anything that can be traded or resold. He talks one idiot into helping him escape for a promise of $50,000 that Rogge says he has buried in California and will send to him (right). He talks his way across borders and out of scrapes and into the hearts of strangers. But he saves his best spiel for bank managers--always female, by the way, since Rogge realized (correctly) that they are less likely to feel the urge to play hero and try to stop the robbery in progress. His MO was to call ahead and arrange a meeting with the bank manager. He would arrive in a nice neat suit and tie with a fancy briefcase, sit down, take out a robbery note and hand it to the manager. He would say something like "don't turn this into a homicide" and part his suit coat enough to show a gun handle. He would set a police scanner on the desk and advise against tripping any alarms under the threat of getting shot. Amazingly enough this worked almost thirty times to the tune of over $2-million.
Another of Rogge's gifts is that of the consummate handyman. He's the kind of guy who can figure out how to operate or fix just about anything mechanical or electrical. He taught himself how to hot wire cars and drive them when he was just a kid. Later apparently taught himself how to fly airplanes and sail sailboats. He managed to fix boat and car engines, even airplane and one helicopter engine with no formal training. Too bad he didn't just concentrate on using that one skill. Actually he does, near the end of the book, while on the run in Guatemala. He becomes "Mr. Fix It" in the ex-pat gringo community in Antigua, where he and his common law wife Judy are living an idyllic life. At this point one begins to feel real sympathy for Rogge. He has given up robbing banks and is ripping off no one because in such a tight knit ex-pat community everybody knows everybody and you can't afford to get a bad rep.
A third Rogge gift is just pure ballsyness. He literally has the nerves of a burglar. In a sense his bank robberies were more con jobs and burglaries than holdups. He conned his way inside, had what he wanted put in bags and he carried it out. The key was his very careful casing of the banks and his careful planning of how to get away. He always had at least two vehicles for the escape. One was the getaway car (usually stolen), which he and his sometimes accomplice would quickly abandon for the second vehicle which might be an SUV, a motor home, a boat or even an airplane. He would listen on the police scanner (which he had practiced listening to days before the robbery) to know just what the police were up too, when the alarm had sounded and where the police thought he was going.
Finally Rogge had great natural social skills. He knew how to make people like him and trust him. Nobody ever turned him in, not even for the $25,000 reward money. Friends sent him money when he was in need and helped him out when he was on the run, no questions asked. Les Rogge is the classic example of a criminal who could have been a great success in life pursuing any one of a number of other careers.
Another of the ironies of his life is that he often got into trouble for his generosity. Once he befriended an out-of-work hitchhiker who went on to steal his money and his car. And friends would sometimes inadvertently help the FBI reconnect to his trail. In the final insult, he helps a kid in Guatemala set up his computer connection only to have the kid spot him on the Internet as one of America's Most Wanted. The kid clicks on a site, the FBI is alerted and the kid tells all he knows and not long after Rogge (in order to save his beloved Judy from an aiding and abetting charge) turns himself in.
This is not your polished Ann Rule or Edward Humes true crime sort of tale, but for all that it is just as interesting as something from the masters of the genre. Dane Batty has done a great (if somewhat amateurish) job of allowing his uncle to present himself in a way that turns his first-person escapades into a rounded tale of human strength and weakness, of a life well and poorly spent, about a man part hero and part villain. The only weakness in the book is what is missing. Relying almost entirely on Rogge's recounting of events ensures that the deeper, darker side of his life reminds untold.
[Note: For more true crime reviews get "Dennis Littrell's True Crime Companion" now available at Amazon.]
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A Gentlemanly Bank Robber Who You Hope Actually Gets Away
By Kim Bryan
In two days, a breath of fresh air is hitting the true crime book shelves in the form of debut author Dane Batty's Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber: The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals.
Batty has spent a great deal of time promoting his book and I'd been keeping a watch on other's reviews, thinking it was a story I was interested in. So when Batty offered to send me an advanced reader's copy for review, I willingly accepted.
But you never know what you're going to get with first time authors. Often they have an excellent story to tell, just not much of a knack for telling it.
That is NOT the case here.
Batty doesn't actually tell Leslie Rogge's story; he has an inside scoop since Rogge is his maternal uncle.
Rogge tells his own story with a few commentaries from Batty thrown in for a relative's point-of-view.
And, let me tell you, Rogge may be a guy who stole an estimated $2 million in his career as a bank robber, but the guy sure knows how to tell a story.
Rogge skips all the childhood memories and delves right into his days of ripping off banks in a very gentlemanly fashion.
He never used violence to get the cash. His crimes involved no high speed chases.
No, they were about as lax as you're going to see with this serious of a crime.
When Rogge wasn't "sticking it to the man," he was sailing the world with his wife, Judy - who at first was oblivious to Rogge's source of income.
Written by Rogge as if he was talking directly to you, readers are invited to hear about his travels, his misdeeds, and a view into life on the lam.
I can't think of another time that I've wanted so much for the bad guy to get a way; to have a happy ending.
Some people are just natural born story tellers with great stories to tell. Some people do bad things, but they're the nicest folks in the world; willing to give you the shirt off their back in your time of need.
Leslie Rogge is one of them, and Batty has done a SUPERB job of compiling these stories into a book that's difficult to put down!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
So what if he was a crook. He sure wrote a delightful memoi!
By Jesse Kornbluth
"Wanted: Gentleman Bank Robber" carries a subtitle so long it almost announces that the book is self-published: "The True Story of Leslie Ibsen Rogge, One of the FBI's Most Elusive Criminals."
And while most of it is written by the bank robber himself, the nominal author is not a professional writer --- he's Dane Batty, Rogge's much younger, totally adoring nephew.
The book had, in short, all the ingredients for a self-serving adventure story that just happened to fudge the morality of a life story that has the protagonist robbing around 30 banks for a score of about $2 million.
Wrong. "Wanted" is, simply, a blast: funny, self-aware, amazingly informative about bank robbery, boats, cars, planes and --- far from least --- human nature.
Best of all, there's not an apologetic line in it. Oh, sure, Leslie Rogge might have taken his considerable talents and put them to a use that was of benefit to Society --- but the thing is, he was pretty much born for the life of crime.
"A job?" Hunter Thompson wrote. "But how would I make any money?"
That could have been Leslie Rogge's motto.
Want a deep psychological dive into his childhood? Forget it. Rogge stole his first car at 13. In high school, he swiped his father's credit cards and an under-aged girl. The judge said, "I'll give you four choices --- now pick a service." He chose the Navy. "For the boats."
Remember the '67 Cadillac Eldorado? Guys wanted them so badly they were willing to pay a premium. Rugge managed to find several. Soon, he says, he was making $30-35,000 a week. Okay, so he did some time for transporting stolen vehicles and his wife fled with the kids --- his second wife would have a better sense of humor.
A police scanner led him to bank robbery. As he analyzed the crime, the trick was to have two getaway cars. Rob the bank, be seen fleeing in one, ditch it, and roll on in the second car, all the while listening to the police go the wrong way.
The victims were mostly small banks, with women as managers. "Let's not turn this into a homicide," he'd say, and, being less inclined to heroics than men, the women complied. Later, in the getaway car, he'd set off "a can of WD-40 with a rubber band holding down the button." Why? To fog up the interior, removing all fingerprints. (Sometimes the getaway car was a small, stolen plane.) Good times!
Foolish? Not our Les. (His friends? Sometimes. "Wild Bill got caught at the Mexican border in a flame-red Cadillac Eldorado with the top down, a nineteen-year-old blonde hooker and a kilo of heroin in the A/C duct.") He was practical and thoughtful, and not really hooked on the thrill of crime: "It always seemed that when I ran out of plans, I'd start thinking of banks to rob. Then, with a case of money, things would seem to just come together."
His third wife liked boats, and cruising the Caribbean in a big sailboat, and lazy travel on the Mississippi in a houseboat, and she wasn't freaked out by Rogge's occupation. Which makes for good reading, because the centerpiece of the book is a life right out of a Jimmy Buffett song.
Minor inconvenience: Rogge is arrested, tried, convicted.
Solution: Just before he's about to be transferred to prison, he just....walks out the door.
By now, Rogge's in Butch Cassidy territory --- whatever his crimes, he's a lot more interesting than the straights who want to lock him up. You will not be thrilled when, in 1990, he makes the FBI's "Most Wanted" list. But he thinks fast, moves faster.
Run, Les, run!
Oops. The inevitable occurs. "My trial was bull---. Of course I was guilty, but they didn't play fair."
You can find Leslie Rogge now in a medium security prison in Beaumont, Texas. He's due to be released in 2047. If alive, he'll be 107.
There's no way to read this book and not think, as you close it, "What a waste of my tax dollars."
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