(Ep. 3) - Outlaws vs the Postal I...
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(Ep. 3) - Outlaws vs the Postal Inspectors. How the first peacetime robbery involving the Post Office accidentally invents federal law enforcement as we know it.
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October 6, 1866. Three men board a slow-moving train in Seymour, Indiana. They beat a messenger unconscious, steal $16,000, and throw a 300-pound safe off a moving train. It's the first peacetime train robbery in American history, and it accidentally invents federal law enforcement as we know it. Find out how this involves the post office, a corner of postal history, civic history and government workers. In this action-packed episode, Aileen and Maia break from their usual format to deliver pure narrative chaos: train robberies, shootouts, vigilante lynchings, and the birth of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, apart of the Post Office. From the Reno Brothers' brutal heist that ended in mob violence, to Jesse James wearing KKK hoods and building a mythology that protected him for nine years, to Butch Cassidy brought down by raspberry-stained bil ... 

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