March or early April 1964. After two attempts were abandoned, Roberts and Campbell quit the planned robbery due to Kapatos' objectionable temper, and Campbell died from a heart attack on October 4, 1964. The bank truck's route was subsequently altered to include stops at several churches. On the morning of December 21, 1964, three masked men armed with pistols handcuffed four priests and a janitor inside St. Anthony's church on Beech Street in Paterson and then held two guards at gunpoint as they arrived to pick up the church's Sunday collection. The three gunmen then escaped with $1,100 in collections from the church and $511,000 from the money truck in a Chevrolet driven by a fourth robber. The robbery was the largest ever to occur in Paterson and the largest in the New York metropolitan area since the theft of $3 million in cash and securities from a Manhattan bank in 1878. Kapatos' share of the loot exceeded $100,000; he and Callahan used the proceeds of the robbery to begin loansharking. Callahan and Speditz attracted the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in early January 1965 after buying new cars and going on expensive vacations in Miami. Callahan was questioned at the Miami FBI office on January 22, 1965, but refused to speak. Various items reported missing from two stolen cars used in the bank truck robbery were then discovered during a search of Speditz's apartment in the Bronx, and a streak of white paint found on the fender of one of the vehicles was traced to a scraped door in a garage owned by Pierce. In March 1965, an FBI surveillance team observed Kapatos talking with Roberts, who was subsequently questioned but did not reveal any information about the robbery. In November and December 1965, the victims of the jewelry heist were taken by FBI agents to view Kapatos outside a restaurant and as he worked underneath the Williamsburg Bridge on Delancey Street on the Manhattan's Lower East Side; four of the AAA employees positively identified him as one of the robbers disguised as a policeman. A nun at St. Anthony's also recognised Kapatos as a "beggar" who had twice stopped by a convent two doors down from the church in the months before the Paterson robbery; investigators believe he may have been carrying out reconnaissance on the location. Roberts was shot and wounded by an unidentified