The Great Train Robbery

In 1963, a gang of masked men stole an obscene amount of money from a train nobody was supposed to know about. It was the kind of audacious heist that belonged in the movies, planned to perfection by a criminal mastermind with a track record for big scores. But their plan derailed when the train driver, Jack Mills, was badly beaten. Nobody knew who the attacker was. The gang closed ranks. It wasn't until five decades after the crime, when a dying man decided to clear his conscience, that one of the longest running questions in British crime folklore was answered: who attacked Jack Mills? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices