Heist Podcast

NYE 1987 Sydney Australia, the country is celebrating their bicentennial meanwhile at an Australian National Bank in Chinatown a crew are having a different kind of party, a heist party.

It's a story straight out of the movies that still to this day is unsolved.

And in the news, underwater beer heist and Matt's uncle's crazy wine. Check it out. HEEEEIIISSSTTT!

Today we tell the story of Atilla Ambrus aka The Whiskey Robber. A Hungarian born in communist Romania. Atilla turned to robbing post offices to make a better life for himself after the iron curtain fell. Oh yeah, he was also a professional hockey goalie / team janitor and once got fired for crashing the zamboni. And in heist new MATT GETS HEISTED!

Today we tell the amazing story of The Boyd Gang, a crew of Canadian heisters that really caused a rukus in Ontario in the 40s and 50s. While the gang was named after Edwin Boyd he wasn't the mastermind, just the most handsome guy on the crew.

On this very special episode of Heist Podcast we invite poders from another foder, Caitlyn and Sue of Scam Wow Podcast to discuss the mysterious heist story of Theodore Conrad. A man who walked out of the bank that he worked at with 215K in a big brown paper bag and then vanished never to be seen again. It's short, sweet and a great story to discuss with our awesome guests.

We were also on their show, if you'd like to check it out scamwowpodcast.com

College student Stephen Jackley made it his mission to take from the rich and give to the poor. So he decided to rob banks in order to fund he's new NGO "The Organisation." It turned out raising 100K wasn't as easy he thought.

During the 70s Eddie Dodson AKA the Yankee Bandit ran a hip antique shop in Hollywood. He partied with many of the biggest stars at the time and at those parties he did a lot of cocaine, which was the style at the time. After getting super addicted to cocaine, then heroin, then cocaine and heroin at the same time Eddie wasn't making enough money at his shop to afford his habit, so what did he do? Well he robbed a bunch of banks of course, like...a lot of banks. HEEEIIISSST!

During the 1970s and 80s the Medford Mass. police department was CRAZY corrupt. So bad in fact that the cops were pulling off even worse crimes that the criminals were. And that brings us to our story today about three active police officers (One was a captain) that pulled off a full bank heist and made off with over $10 million. This is a classic "How is this not a Hollywood blockbuster movie yet"." Check it out HEEEIIISSST!

Today we tell the insane life of Marius Jacob. A ship hand at 11 and a by mistake pirate at 13. Marius was the hardest teenager possibly in history. After that Marius started a crime gang / anarchist group called "The Night Workers" who pulled off heists, robbing from Europe's Aristocracy. Teen pirate has gotten be a movie. Heeeeiiistt.

Today we are telling the story of James Hogue a life long con-man that decided the best way to become America's top running champ was to steal a dead kids identity, pose as a 16 year old and go back to high school at the ripe old age of 26. Then to do it all over again at 31 by lying his way into Princeton. Also he pulled off a gem heist at Harvard just for funsies. HEEEIST

Johnny and Carolyn Williams lived a quiet life in San Luis Obispo, they liked nice meals, wine, cigars and....robbing banks! Check out this modern and way less violent Bonnie and Clyde tale of two lovers that worked together to steal more than 850K from banks all across America using a method we just learned about called a "Take Over Robbery" HHHEEIIST!