Canada's Most Legendary Train Robber (who wasn't Canadian) [#149]

Heist Podcast

Matt And Sie

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we tell the story of Bill Miner, a serial criminal who was prolific in robbing, getting caught for robbing and having anyone he robbed with getting a shotgun blast to the face. Bill Miner became a folk hero in Western Canada despite the fact he was a terrible criminal and spent most of his behind bars.

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0:00.0	Cash. Bonds. Shotgun blasts in the face.
0:06.2	Heist.
0:10.2	Hiast podcast.
0:13.4	Hello everybody and welcome to episode 149. I'm Simon.
0:19.3	And I'm Matt.
0:20.3	And this is the true crime podcast without any of the murder.
0:25.0	Yeah, there's murder today.
0:27.3	Yeah, there's a little bit.
0:28.5	It's a little sprinkle of murder.
0:30.5	A little sprinkle of murder.
0:31.4	But dare I say, kind of hilarious murder?
0:34.4	Yeah, I think enough time has passed for it to be kind of humorous.
0:38.8	If there's a murder,
0:43.9	this is going to be going back over 100 years. I don't feel like we're going to be offending any living relatives or anything like that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:48.7	That was my great, great, great, great grandfather. How dare you? Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
0:53.4	Matt, how are you doing, man? Doing good,
0:55.2	man, doing good. Episode 149. It's crazy. One episode away from the big special.
1:01.3	One episode away from the listener special, which we're super excited for. And it's getting into the
1:06.8	holiday season, dude. So if you're listening, happy holidays. Hope you're hopefully getting some
1:11.6	relaxation and rest going on. Yeah, about the time this hits the airways, it'll be real real premo
1:17.6	holiday times. I like those like, yeah, the early 20s of December. Those are always the times where
1:24.3	you don't got enough family responsibility yet so you can still party with
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