10/3: Canada Covered

Solving a gold heist at the Toronto airport, 70 years later


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The $20 million gold heist at Pearson airport in April caught headlines because of the brazen nature of the crime, but it also struck some as eerily similar to another 70 years ago.

The theft of gold bars from Toronto’s airport had gone unsolved for seven decades, until now.

National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys joins the show to discuss how he was able to identify the culprits of the 1952 gold heist, how they likely got away with it, and why there probably wasn’t a happy ending to this underworld tale. 

Background reading: 'My dad got the gold': I solved the great Toronto airport heist of 1952

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