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CHAPTER 1
Prelude
Bobby Augustus Davis and Jack Wright Twining were violent, career criminals who had recently been released from prison. They had befriended each other in prison, and in the wake of their release, they traveled to California, where they began to plan a series of crimes, including the takedown and robbery of an armored car.
On the evening of April 5, 1970, Davis and Twining were in the coastal mountains of the Angeles National Forest, between the towns of Gorman and Castaic, California. (ssss1) They were there for several purposes, all of which related to their planned crimes. Their primary objective was to locate and steal explosives from a construction site, those explosives intended for use in their attack on the armored car. Additionally, they wanted to troubleshoot and test-fire some weapons, as well as perform an operational test on some portable radios (five-watt CB transceivers) that they planned on using during the heist.7
At one point, Twining was away from the vehicle in search of the explosives, while Davis remained behind to safeguard it and the cache of weapons in the rear seat and trunk of the two-door, 1964 Pontiac Gran Prix. Davis parked the vehicle on the shoulder of the northbound side of the interstate (Interstate 5, formerly Highway 99), but attracted the attention and suspicions of some stranded motorists ahead and felt compelled to leave quickly. He made a large, sweeping U-turn across the highway and headed southbound, cutting off another southbound motorist in the process, who had to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision. The time was approximately 23:22.8