1952 London Mail Van Heist: How One Cigarette Solved the Perfect Crime

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[00:00:00]In 1952, armed thieves pulled off one of London's most audacious postal robberies. They intercepted a mail van on East Castle Street carrying factory payroll money >> [music] >> worth millions in today's currency. The gang had inside information. They knew exactly which van to hit and when it would arrive. Three masked men ambushed the postal workers at gunpoint, grabbed the cash bags and vanished into London's crowded streets. Police had no witnesses, no fingerprints, no leads.

[00:00:30]But years later, >> [music] >> one gang member's fingerprint on a discarded cigarette packet finally cracked the case wide open.