Ted and Gary Noble
Real Name: Gary and Theodore Noble
Aliases: Larry Juster (Gary)
Wanted For: Burglary, Armed Robbery
Missing Since: 1997
Case
Details: On the morning of February 12, 1996, at around 7 am, Becky Wood of Akron, Ohio, was asleep in bed when her husband left for work. Just moments later, two masked men broke into the home, and the two seemed to know exactly what they were looking for. The intruders then attacked Becky, pulling her out of her bed at gunpoint and then demanded the combination to the family safe. At the time, Becky's granddaughter was asleep next to her, so she hid her under a blanket so the men would not know that she was there. Also, there were three other children asleep in the house. Becky tried to explain that she did not know the combination, but this only made the men even more angry and they continued to assault her. Sounds of ransacking came from upstairs, where the second intruder was raiding Becky's dresser of jewelry and that's when Becky's 9 year old grandson Matthew wandered into the room, and he was immediately thrown to the floor, tied up, and had a garbage bag placed on his head. Becky was then bound and rolled up in a rug, and as she laid on the ground, she heard the family safe being dragged across the floor. The men then placed the safe in her car and drove away, and afterwards one of Becky's grandchildren woke up and freed her and Matthew. Becky then discovered that the men had sliced all of the phone lines and alarms, so she had neighbors call the police.
Along with stealing Becky's car, the two men made off with $20,000 in jewelry and another $18,000 in cash that was in the family safe. Later that afternoon, Becky's '91 Lincoln was found at a nearby car wash and the safe, empty of money, was found a week later. As police began to review the case, they realized that the two intruders knew too much to be just total strangers, so the Wood family gave police a list of names of everyone they knew; co-workers, friends, acquaintances, anyone that had knowledge about the items in their house. Then, when Becky's jewelry was found at a pawn shop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, investigators believed that it had been sold by a man named Larry Juster. State computers revealed a photograph which was sent to Ohio, where Becky's daughter identified the man in the photo as Gary Noble, who, along with his brother Ted, had worked at the Wood home eight months before the robbery. The two men also were on the list that Becky Wood gave to police of people that they knew. When Ted and Gary Noble discovered that police were closing in on them, they fled Ohio and have not been seen since. Authorities tracked the Nobles as far south as Houston, Texas, but they remain at large, and are considered armed and dangerous. A $5,000 reward is being offered in the case.
Extra Notes: This case first aired on the March 14, 1997 episode.
Results: Captured. On Tuesday, August 26, 1997, little over a month after the UM segment was re-aired, the brothers were sighted by viewers in Nashville, Tennessee. Gary Noble was doing construction on the new football stadium in town. The Tennessee Violent Crimes Task Force responded to the site and saw Gary driving away in a vehicle. When the agent turned around to follow Noble, he lost him in traffic, so he alerted the rest of the task force, who again found him in traffic in an area where the brothers frequented, and by this time Ted was also in the car. The brothers attempted a car chase, but were caught at the Interstate 265 exit ramp. They plead guilty to charges of theft, burglary, robbery, and tampering with evidence, and received 3 to 15-year sentences. They both have served their time in prison and have been released.
In 2011, Gary Noble was arrested and charged in the shooting death of Mark Shafer. Mark was killed in his home during a robbery gone wrong. Noble pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison.
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