4. The Great Brink’s Robbery
It’s another Boston-based crime and one that was described as “the crime of the century”, although the criminal masterminds involved all eventually got themselves arrested by the FBI. The robbery took place on January 17 1950, at the Brink’s building. The robbers had practiced the heist for around two years and spent a long time choosing the optimum time of date to commit it. Eventually, it was 6:55PM when the robbers walked in with their copied keys, tied the staff up and left with $1,218,211.29 in cash, and $1,557,183.83 in checks. It took six years for the FBI to pin them down, but all were tried, except for the ones who had died in the interim, and eight of them received life sentences. The crime of the century fell flat at the end it seems…
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