Cute lil' pick pocket, Sophie Lyons [#161]
Heist Podcast
Matt And Sie
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today we're telling the story of Sophie Lyons, one of the best criminals in 1860s. Sophie Lyons was trained at a young age to slice open rich woman's purses with a razor blade. From there she graduated in to one of New York's most successful and richest criminals. At the time of her death her estate was wroth over 750K (around 30 million today)
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| 0:00.0 | You may have heard of Polly Pocket. |
| 0:04.0 | But have you ever heard of Polly Peck Pocket? |
| 0:08.8 | Haist! |
| 0:12.0 | Hoist podcast. |
| 0:15.4 | Oh, man, that was a late edition tease. |
| 0:18.6 | Definitely didn't write that tease two seconds before recording it |
| 0:21.2 | hello everybody and welcome to episode 161 of heist podcast a true crime podcast without any of |
| 0:28.4 | that murder i'm simon and i'm matt matt how you doing man good to see you over zoom not in person |
| 0:34.7 | unfortunately great to see you time zone monday Everyone's a little groggy. Yeah. But we got a good episode, so I'm like, I'm just ready to just blast it out, you know? We got a story we've been meaning to tell for a while, so I'm excited to get to it too. So why don't we stop with the early banter and just go straight to some heist news. |
| 0:54.4 | You ready? |
| 0:55.2 | Let's do it. |
| 0:55.7 | All right. |
| 1:02.0 | So this one was sent in from a lot of people. |
| 1:07.0 | Shout out to Joey P., Nick B., Eve's Mark, and a whole whackload of you others. |
| 1:11.9 | This comes from the New York Post, and the headline is great. It reads, |
| 1:16.4 | Texas man drives dealership loaner to rob bank to buy BMW. |
| 1:24.6 | Sick. Pretty good. Here we go. Are you ready? Everything is bigger in Texas, including the boldness of one thief's brazen scheme to get himself a BMW. |
| 1:29.8 | Eric Dionne, 50, drove a car dealership loaner to a bank, robbed the bank, and then drove |
| 1:35.5 | back to the dealership to use the stolen money to buy a beamer, federal prosecutor said, |
| 1:40.5 | in a press release. That's, that's new. That's a new one. That's a new one, Matt. |
| 1:45.6 | That's a, I mean, it's a pretty good move using the loaner to, to a robbery to buy that car. |
| 1:52.3 | He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the audacious crime Tuesday. That's an insane amount |
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