The biggest mystery of casino world

This time of the year, 22 years ago, has become one of the most famous days in Las Vegas casino history.

An employee of Stardust Hotel and Casino has left his job with half-a-million dollars and disappeared. Nobody knows where he went, what he did with the money and where he is now.

The legendary story happened in 1992, when Bill Brennan left the casino he worked at just as he did for the previous 4 years. But this time he stole a fortune from his employer and vanished without a trace. A situation like this was only possible in movies, but in real life, the criminals were usually caught, until this time.

Bill didn't point a gun on anyone, he just walked out of the building with $507 361 in cash and chips. Metro Police Lt. Joe Greenwood gave an interview in 1992 and said :

"They never found a trace of Bill Brennan anywhere. Never a trace," former sports book manager at the Stardust Richard Saber said. He used to know Brennan and told the journalists, that he was a complete loner and lived alone with his cat. His apartment was the first place Police checked, but they only found that Brennan took his cat and was long gone.

The apartment manager said that Brennan was"Just a nice kid, that's all”. But obviously, nice kid has changed when he started hanging out with a big bettor.

"This was a bettor that we didn't trust. He was a shady character. He disappeared from the face of the earth too just a few months after Bill had gone," Saber said.

Brennan became a problem at work, he was badly influenced by some people and he “...wanted desperately to be a supervisor, but with his change in attitude, I couldn't put him in charge of all that money," Schettler said.

But Schettler couldn't expect such a turn. He saw that Brennan was reading books about changing identity.

Some people say that Bill never left the city, or may have had a partner in crime, who killed him and took the money. The mystery stays unresolved.

"Would this be possible to do today? Probably not," Metro Police Sgt. John Sheahan said.

"Nowadays, we're able to track someone with their cell phone down to within feet of where they're standing," Sheahan said.

Bill Brennan has been on the America's most wanted list, on the FBI most wanted list, but that never brought any results.

Crime Stoppers are still hoping to get clues, but Bill Brennan remains the person that managed to do the impossible.