When a bomb went off in a department store, the police knew the man that demanded the money was serious... but maybe not quite as serious as you might expect.

This episode was written by Christy Arnhart, edited by John Lordan and is produced by LordanArts.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Funke https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufhaus_des_Westens https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-strange-story-of-dagobert-the-ducktales-bandit   https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/04/23/berlin-police-say-theyve-caught-bomber-who-became-folk-hero/b9b8b3bd-caac-475f-80d9-266f4bcddff9/  
https://de.nachrichten.yahoo.com/ber%C3%BCchtigter-erpresser-37-jahren-versucht-073900969.html
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/1994-Kaufhaus-Erpresser-Dagobert-wird-geschnappt,dagobert100.html  
https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/wiwo-history-was-wurde-eigentlich-aus-deutschland-auf-entenjagd-die-geschichte-von-kaufhaus-erpresser-dagobert/29970122.html  
https://www.zdfheute.de/panorama/kriminalitaet/arno-funke-dagobert-30-jahre-kaufhauserpressung-100.html   https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Chronologie-Der-Fall-Dagobert-und-die-Kaufhaus-Erpressungen,dagobert118.html

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