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Introducing: White Eagle

Mar 23, 20223 min
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From the team behind Paper Ghosts, WHITE EAGLE is a six-part true crime series about a 1983 heist where a 25-year-old armored truck driver from West Hartford, Connecticut, tied up his co-workers, stuffed more than $7 million into a Buick LaSabre, and disappeared into the night. At the time, it was one of the largest cash heists in U.S. history. But that was just the beginning.

 

WHITE EAGLE launches April 7. Listen and subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

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Somewhere tonight, a Wells Fargo guard and act Wells Fargo guard is on the run with seven million dollars in cash. On September twelfth, twenty five year old Victor Horraine have pulled into the garage but nondescript building in West Hartford, Connecticut, and set off to work picking up in delivering cash for an armored car company. Twelve hours later, picked her, put a gun to their head, threaten them. He handcuffed on,

piled them up, put him on the floor. Coach were then placed over their heads, at which time Greena advised the men that he was going to give them a shop that would put him to sleep. He packed about a thousand pounds of money into his buic less saber and amount today equivalent to nearly nineteen points six million dollars and drove off into the night. Because you've had so much money to steal from here that he couldn't even haul it all away. Police estimate that he left

about a million dollars behind. At the time, it was one of the largest cash heists in US history, but stealing the money was only the beginning. For some. This is a story about a man who has been on the FBI's top ten most wanted less longer than anyone else, a man who has eluded federal authorities for nearly forty years. I'm still running the back of my mind that we're going to get this guy. For others, it's a story about a robbery that funded a revolution. This whole issue

has ignited a firestorm of controversy. What we want to know is why did the president make this decision. My name is m William Phelps. I'm an investigative journalist and author of more than forty true crimes and the host of the narrative podcast series Paper Ghosts. Joined me as I dive deep into one of the most infamous crime stories you've never heard. These are people who are have been adopted and embraced by all of Puerto Rico or One. It to show that you can carry out specific actions

and demonstrate that the US were weak. For some folks, they were kind of like booking men. For others, they were heroes. There's no question in my mind that these individuals were terrorists. This is white equal a crime that captivated national media, divided Congress, and mobilized a radical organization. Either we won or I would end up in prison or dead listening, subscribe to White Eagle and the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.

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