tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post3006590677916717597..comments2024-03-29T05:33:43.878-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Ronnie's Rio AdventureOvidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-27160176291188508762013-03-29T07:44:37.150-04:002013-03-29T07:44:37.150-04:00Thank you so much for providing these valuable inf...Thank you so much for providing these valuable information. I’m looking forward to the next time that I get to come to your blog. Scrap Car Norwichhttp://mellormetals.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-83908914154980778422010-04-10T16:08:12.060-04:002010-04-10T16:08:12.060-04:00Great stuff Leighton. The Great Train Robbers beco...Great stuff Leighton. The Great Train Robbers become almost folk heroes, and Ronnie Biggs, despite being a crook, a tabloid jack-the-lad. He used to entertain and lavish drinks upon visiting journalists and revelled in his myth. One of the other robbers, Buster Edwards had a highly romanticised film made about him too. Played by Phil Collins of all people. And contrary to the romantic view, beth, the train driver, Jack Mills, was walloped over the head during the heist and never fully recovered. He died in 1970 because of his injuries.Dan Waddellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04320741202757960766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-20094757210332853222010-04-05T14:16:38.553-04:002010-04-05T14:16:38.553-04:00Ronald Biggs and his cohorts didn't plan nearl...Ronald Biggs and his cohorts didn't plan nearly as well as did the two men who robbed the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, 20 years ago.<br /><br />There are only four actual facts known about the theft and they were known within minutes of the robbery's discovery. Two men, posing as Boston police officers, entered the museum by claiming there was a report of suspicious activity in the area. They took the two security guards to the basement and hand-cuffed them to a pipe. They stole, at today's value, $500,000,000.00 worth of art, including works by Vermeer and Rembrandt. They were in an out in 81 minutes.<br /><br />There have been myriad theories about the identity of the mastermind (Whitey Bulger, who benefited from the theft (the IRA), and the location of the art (either a Middle East oil-producing country) or Japan. There has never been as much as a whisper about the actual location.<br /><br />The theft gets attention because Isabella Stewart Gardner established the museum with the stipulation that not one piece was to be moved from the location in which she placed it or the contents of the museum would revert to Harvard (like Harvard needs more value added to its endowment). So visitors to the museum for the past 20 years see the empty spaces, left as they were the early morning of March 18, 1991.<br /><br />If I remember correctly, no one was seriously injured during the Great Train Robbery. Biggs was a thief but not a murderer.<br /><br />Whitey Bulger is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. He is shown to the right of Osama Bin Laden. The Jack Nicholson character in THE DEPARTED is generally considered to have been based on Bulger. Whitey (James) is the son of Irish immigrants. He left school when he was about 14 years old but he is brilliant and an autodidact. Whitey is also a killer and a drug dealer and people in South Boston were terrified of him. In local popular culture the question "Where's Whitey?" is answered with another question, "Whitey who?". (The Irish, down to the third and fourth generation have an annoying habit of answering a question with a question).<br /><br />One can feel some sympathy for Ronald Biggs. Not so Whitey Bulger. Whitey certainly has the intellectual capacity to plan a perfect robbery of such magnitude. The case against his involvement is the difficulty in unloading the art secretly.<br /><br />Whitey disappeared in 1994 after being told by an FBI agent that he was about to be arrested for racketeering. The art may be found before Whitey is.bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17405199782450351160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-37024014748702309942010-04-04T23:43:19.341-04:002010-04-04T23:43:19.341-04:00Hi Leighton,
GREAT STORY!
SusieHi Leighton,<br />GREAT STORY!<br />SusieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-65070277002839772032010-04-04T22:39:03.566-04:002010-04-04T22:39:03.566-04:00Thanks Leighton, I've often wondered what happ...Thanks Leighton, I've often wondered what happened to him and the loot...:)<br />CaraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-24667501463004073062010-04-04T22:18:37.781-04:002010-04-04T22:18:37.781-04:00What a great bit of history. Got to wonder what ha...What a great bit of history. Got to wonder what happened to the other members of his gang.Mason Canyonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935307400882363560noreply@blogger.com