Plymouth Mail robbery
The Plymouth Mail robbery, or what the press dubbed "The Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery" was, at the time of its occurrence, the largest
For five years the
With the five-year federal statute of limitations approaching with no real leads to solve the robbery, the Postal Inspectorate and the Department of Justice stepped up a campaign of near-total surveillance and harassment of all known armed robbers in the Boston area in a frantic effort to obtain clues about the robber's identities. Shortly before the statute of limitations was to expire, a federal grand jury indicted four men and one woman as the perpetrators of this robbery.[5] One of the defendants disappeared right before trial and was never found.[6] The other defendants were acquitted at trial.
To this day the haul of $1.5 million in cash (equivalent to approximately $15,100,000 in 2013 dollars[7]) remains undiscovered by the authorities.
References
- ^ U.S.Mail Truck Robbed By Gang Fitchburg Sentinel August 15, 1962
- ^ Mail Truck Looted of $1.5 Million Desert Sun August 15, 1962
- ISBN 0-8128-1441-X, p. 105
- ^ "Fastcase – Beyond Research".
- ^ Federal Prosecutors Indict 3 In 5-Year-Old Mail Robbery Columbia Missourian August 1, 1967 [1]
- ISBN 0-8128-1441-X, p. 118.
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
Further reading
Tidyman, Ernest. "Big Bucks: The True, Outrageous Story of the Plymouth Mail Robbery and How They Got Away with It." Norton. 1982.