Question: Where did the Santa Claus Bank Robbery occur?
Answer: In Cisco on December 23, 1927. Marshall Ratliff, an ex-convict who had only served a year of his sentence before receiving a pardon from Governor Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, dressed up as Santa Claus to avoid being identified when he and three others robbed the First National Bank in his hometown of Cisco. The heist led to a wild shootout at the bank and the largest manhunt ever conducted in the state up to that time.
