Naman Shrestha
Involved in a series of bank robberies in Texas, the young Hayden and Abigail Catt, especially the latter, hardly knew what was right and wrong. Their story is highlighted in the episode titled ‘All in the Family’ of ABC’s ’20/20′ along with several interviews with the Catt family, known for committing several robberies between 2010 and 2012. While Scott Catt opens up about how he convinced his kids to break the law with him, Abigail also answers some questions after serving her sentence and getting released from jail. Well, let’s take a look at all the details surrounding the robberies and find out where Hayden and Abigail Catt are.
Who are Hayden and Abigail Catt?
Hayden Catt was born in the early 1990s, while Abigail “Abby” Catt was born a couple of years later, seemingly in 1994, to Ronald “Scott” Catt and Beth Catt. Growing up in Dundee, Oregon, the two siblings supposedly formed a close bond with each other. Soon, in 1997, they lost their mother to breast cancer. Right after that, their father found it difficult to cope with the loss and, consequently, struggled with substance and alcohol abuse. Despite the hardships and struggles of their single father, Hayden and Abby were allegedly well taken care of and loved by him. They went on summer vacations, mainly to amusement parks nationwide, to ride roller coasters.
Both the siblings attended McMinnville High School as honor students. Soon, they became vital members of the swimming team, following in the footsteps of their father, Scott, who was president of the McMinnville Swim Club board of directors. Hayden’s interest in swimming had him qualified for the high school state swim meet, but by the age of 17, he got into drinking, so much so that he started blacking out regularly. On the other hand, Abby lost interest in swimming by the age of 15 and got along with the drinking and partying crowd. When she refused to listen to her father, she ended up in another school and took online classes.
Soon, Hayden allegedly realized that he was gay and was struggling to find a way to tell his family. Finally, a year later, he came out to his sister and father, both of whom accepted his sexuality. After Hayden graduated, he worked as a hotel bellman throughout the week and a tour guide on weekends, driving people around to see the wineries. In 2010, Scott approached him, who revealed that he worked as a part-time bank robber on the side. Even though he explained to Hayden all the intricacies of the next robbery, expecting him to help his father out, the teenager got cold feet and was too scared to leave the house.
With their father moving to Houston, Texas, for work in January 2012, Hayden relocated to Hawaii to work at a resort hotel, and Abby moved in with her grandmother. In the following months of 2012, the siblings decided to join their father in Texas. They lived together in the Nottingham Place apartment complex in the suburb of Katy in Houston. It didn’t take long for Abby to land a job at Victoria’s Secret at the Katy Mall while Hayden tried to get a job as a hotel concierge. Sooner rather than later, he decided to join his father and help with the bank robberies to get some money to attend college.
In need of a getaway driver, the father-son pair convinced Abby to fulfill that role for them. On August 9, 2012, the Catt family perpetrated their first robbery together at a Comerica Bank in Harris County. Despite the siblings’ nervousness, they executed the robbery precisely as planned, bringing home about $70,000. Their second robbery occurred on October 1, 2012, at Katy’s First Community Credit Union. Hayden and Abby were sent to the Home Depot to purchase two orange safety vests for pulling off the robbery disguised as a part of the construction crew working on a nearby road.
The Catts also executed this robbery smoothly, bringing home about $30,000 this time. Meanwhile, due to the police’s thorough investigation of the First Community Credit Union robbery, they noticed the newness of Hayden and Scott’s orange safety vests that day. Thus, they managed to trace the purchase of the vests to the Home Depot, where the Catt siblings were identified as buying the vests. Consequently, on November 9, 2012, Scott and Hayden were arrested at their apartment while Abby turned herself in after a few hours.
Hayden Catt is Leading a Quiet After Being Released
A year after his arrest, on November 13, 2013, Hayden Catt pleaded guilty and was given a ten-year sentence for his active role in the First Community Credit Union robbery. Having served his sentence in Hightower Unit Prison in Texas, Hayden was seemingly released in 2022. Since then, he has supposedly kept his life under wraps and away from the media.
Abigail Catt is Out of Jail Now
On November 13, 2013, Abigail Catt was found guilty of one count of aggravated robbery on the same day as her brother. But following her plea, she was sentenced to five years in prison. After spending two years and 11 months of her five-year sentence at Fort Bend County Jail, she was granted parole on September 11, 2015, under the condition that she remain in Texas. However, she was again put behind bars for over a year due to parole violations. Later, her life started to change for the better, as in 2019, she was expecting her first child with her then-boyfriend.
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