SMH: THE three brothers held a hastily organised meeting in their town's fire station to compare notes on the photographs they had stumbled across on the internet.
In horror, the three agreed the older man in the mask, dark glasses and golf shirt in the surveillance photos of a string of bank robberies across Illinois looked awfully like their father, William Ginglen, a former marine, once president of the local junior chamber of commerce and an auxiliary town police officer.
In case there was any lingering doubt, the handgun perched on the bank counter in one picture was a nickel-plated .45, a present one of the brothers, Garrett Ginglen, had given his father a few years back. Another image revealed the waiting getaway car - the Ginglen family's black Mercury Cougar.
So the three brothers walked out of the fire station, feeling as though "the whole world was spinning", and did the only thing they felt they could. They turned in their own father, who was due to be sentenced yesterday to what will probably amount to a life sentence in prison for the 64-year-old. "There was never a question among us about what to do," said Garrett Ginglen, 41, who said he had vomited into a wastepaper basket when he first saw the surveillance photos.
"In a way, he's responsible for his own capture," said Clay Ginglen, 36, another of the brothers.
"He actually raised us to do exactly what we did."
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