/ thecriminalhistorian   Lies, Luxury and Legacy, these are but the tip of the iceberg for tonight’s subject. We will take a look at one of America’s most notorious bank robbers who cheated death more times than the Republican Space Rangers. We will follow a man from the top, to his grave and beyond as we examine the life of a career criminal who tried to walk away from the world he was so familiar with to settle down on the sunbaked boardwalks of the west coast. A family man, when the definition is stretched, who spent years executing some of the most notorious heists in this nation’s history before his elaborate attempt at beginning again and subsequent return to the life of crime which had made him famous. We will witness explosive action, failed father figures and one of the single largest robberies ever performed on US soil, a direct result of the planning and cunning of one heist crew with humble roots in North Yankton and its leader of questionable morals; Michael DeSanta.

Grand Theft Auto Biographies is a GTA Lore show which aims to explore all noteworthy characters from the GTA universe in a detailed and inuniverse format. New episodes every other week.

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Producers:
Eck$ecutive On The Beat
Erik Cutino
King Anodim
MonochromaticWeiss

Patrons:
Eck$ecutive On The Beat
Erik Cutino
King Anodim
MonochromaticWeiss
Flame Haze's Flame Gang
Kenny Molloy
Murdasippi Slim
Omar Youssef
Jadon Bright
jamincitogomez
John Milton
Kacpa2
Richard
SID Under Contruction

Chapters:

Intro 00:00
Early Life 02:08
The Deal 06:45
Living The Dream 09:20
Father Crime 10:45
Strangers & Freaks 18:08
Mr Phillips 22:46
The Bureau 29:19
Thief In Exile 35:06
All For A Good Cause 42:05
Ties That Bind 53:36
The Big One 01:01:46
Personality 01:07:15
Appearance 01:11:11
Known Crimes 01:12:08
Outro 01:16:25
Credits 01:17:11

All rights to the Grand Theft Auto brand including names, characters, music, etc to
Rockstar Games and associates as well as Take Two Interactive

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Written, Produced, EditedScored and Narrated by:
Guiness Walker



“GTA V Theme” originally recorded for Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive

All Footage recorded in game by Guiness Walker

To Circuit.tron for his artwork of me:
https://linktr.ee/halleyjevelandart


To MixMods and all the amazing modders for their phenomenally helpful website


To R001BR for their North Yankton Airport


To Ratt_The_Crusty for their Young Trevor


To GuiCORLEONEx794 for their Young Michael

To Keke for their North Dakota map

To DoctorMike for their Old Michael


To Officer Jake8 for their Carcer City Police Pack


To marhex123 for their Prison Mod


To Black for their carcer city plates pack


To GameTrailers and Brandon Jones for their Retrospective series back in the day
   • Grand Theft Auto Retrospective: Part 1  

To the GTA Wiki for help scripting this video
https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude

To Vadim M, Badger Godger, Sonny Evans, SWEGTA, DarkViperAU,
GoldVision and many more for inspiration

To KeeKnee for Thumbnail consultation
To Rani for the intro Spray Can


Vadim M
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Badger Godger
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Gold Vision
   / @goldvision  
Sonny Evans
   / @sonnyfnevans  
SWEGTA
   / swegta  

To my bandmates in Chronicle Millennia for musical feedback

To Lovice for giving me the gumption to start making youtube videos

To Rockstar Games, Dan and Sam Houser, Leslie Benzies and all the people whose hearts, minds and time
were put into the creation of some of my favourite video games of all time.

#MichaelDeSanta #MichaelTownley #GTAV #LosSantos