Tallchief and Solis moved to Las Vegas in the summer of 1993, renting a unit at the Mark I Apartments on East Desert Inn in mid-July. It’s an unconventional approach to a story that was anything but ordinary. Quotes from the many interviews with the real Tallchief served as her script. Her spirit is one of a kind.”Īfter considering several options, including blurring her face or using CGI, Doneen brought in actress Lisa Lord, who’d spent a couple of years on the “General Hospital” spinoff “Port Charles,” to portray Tallchief. “And, of course, I wanted the real Heather on the screen. “It was an ongoing conversation,” Doneen says of Tallchief’s reluctance. She eventually had a falling-out with Solis and became afraid he would find her - assuming he was even still alive.

“Chaos is sexy.”ĭuring the course of filming “Heist,” Tallchief, who’d refused numerous interview requests over the years before finally agreeing to talk to Doneen, decided she didn’t want to appear onscreen. “Chaos is exciting,” Tallchief says in the documentary. She knew he was a career criminal - he’d been paroled 17 years into a life sentence for killing an armored car driver - when they met.

Looking for an escape, she started smoking crack and eventually lost her job, all by the age of 21. Tallchief had been a nursing assistant caring for patients with full-blown AIDS. “So, right off the bat, that sort of makes it stand out.” Most of these crimes are pulled off by men or groups of men,” says Derek Doneen, who directed the Tallchief-Solis episodes. “It’s very rare to find female-led heists in general.

The sensational caper is depicted, through a mix of interviews and provocative re-enactments, across the first two episodes of the docuseries “Heist,” premiering Wednesday on Netflix.

1, when they pulled off one of the most notorious armored car thefts in Las Vegas history. He brought her home, introduced her to “sex magick” - the belief that orgasms can manifest a visualized result - and showed her his altar where he did “a lot of goddess worship.”įrom that point in early 1993, Roberto Solis and Heather Tallchief would rarely be apart until months after Oct. He approached her in a San Francisco bar and asked if she believed in the devil and wanted to do a line of coke. Lisa Lord portrays Heather Tallchief during the interview portions of 'Heist.' (Netflix)

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