Real Name: Robert Alan Litchfield
Aliases: None known
Wanted For: Armed Robbery, Escape
Missing Since: August 1986
Case[]
Details: Thirty-seven-year-old Robert Litchfield, also known as the "Blockhouse Bandit," is wanted for escaping from a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama, on February 4, 1986. He tricked a prison dentist into escorting him through the gates. He then caught a cab to a nearby town and drove off with a woman in a car with Florida license plates. He was serving sixty years in prison for several bank robberies that he committed in South Florida between 1983 and 1985. Since his escape, authorities have connected him to at least three more bank robberies in Georgia, Florida, and Michigan. In those ones, he took hostages, used handguns, and made bomb threats. He is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. His wife Donna is believed to be travelling with him.
Extra Notes:
- This case originally aired on the January 20, 1987 Special #1 episode of Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Raymond Burr in an FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List along with Leo Koury, Donald Eugene Webb, Victor Gerena, Claude Dallas, James Dyess, Danny Weeks, and Thomas Harrelson.
- It was excluded from the FilmRise release of Robert Stack episodes.
Results: Captured. In May 1987, Litchfield and Donna were arrested in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. However, in March 1989, he once again escaped from prison by posing as a safety inspector. In April, he robbed a bank in Pensacola, Florida. A few days later, he was arrested in Pensacola by U.S. Marshals. He was then returned to prison to serve his sixty-year sentence. He died in federal prison on January 24, 2011, at the age of sixty-two. He had BOP Register Number 19095-004.
Links:
- Robert Litchfield on the FBI's website
- Blockhouse Bandit`s Escape Followed Wife`s Visit To Prison - February 6, 1986
- Authorities Consider `Blockhouse Bandit` For Most-wanted List - October 10, 1986
- Man On ‘Most Wanted’ List Caught At Lake Tahoe - May 20, 1987
- Bank Robber on FBI's Most Wanted List Is Arrested in Lake Tahoe Area - May 21, 1987
- Escaped Prisoner and Bank Robber Caught at Lake Tahoe - May 21, 1987
- Disguised Federal Inmate Escapes - March 13, 1989
- Escaped Bank Robber Captures Tv Interest - March 23, 1989
- Blockhouse bandit Linked To Holdup - April 5, 1989
- Blockhouse Bandit Caught In Panhandle - April 12, 1989
- Hard Time - The Mission At Marion - May 28, 1991