The Baker Street Heist: Tunneling...
IA
The Baker Street Heist: Tunneling Into a Bank With an Umbrella
IA

pplpod por pplpod

Notas del episodio

It is midnight in London, September 1971, and an amateur ham radio operator accidentally tunes into a live, multi-million-pound bank heist, with thieves arguing over walkie-talkies as they burrow beneath the city. Welcome to the legendary Baker Street robbery.

This episode digs into how a crew of mostly working-class men, inspired by a Sherlock Holmes story, dug a 40-foot tunnel to empty 268 safety deposit boxes. We cover the meticulous analog engineering, the catastrophic mistakes, the radio enthusiast who nearly stopped them, and the rumors of royal scandal that turned a gritty burglary into a Hollywood legend.

  • How a car salesman with no record mapped the vault using his own arm span, an umbrella, and counting nine-inch floor tiles
  • The 40-foot tunnel dug only on weekends, generating eight tons of waste hidden inside a r ... 
Leer más