The Diamond Heist Sweethearts

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

True Crime, Fiction, History, Drama

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In February 1925, Richard Reese Whittemore breaks out of Maryland State Penitentiary, killing a prison guard in the process. So begins a year-long violent crime spree as Whittemore’s gang carry out a series of daring heists. Despite his love of violence, Whittemore’s exploits capture the public’s imagination. He’s the Candy Kid. His wife Margaret is Tiger Girl. Together they’re America’s sweethearts. But one man isn’t buying the myth. Inspector John D. Coughlin of New York’s Detective Division sees the Candy Kid for what he is - a ruthless killer. And he’s determined to catch him. A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started with a 7-day free trial. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Friday, February the 20th, 1925, in Baltimore, Maryland.
0:08.0	We're at the Maryland State Penitentiary and the prison's shoe and boot workshop.
0:15.0	In this era, the State Pen is run as an industrial facility.
0:20.0	There's an iron foundry, a print shop, carpet weaving, and clothing factories,
0:24.6	as well as workshops for stone cutting and license plates manufacturer.
0:29.6	Not to mention the chain gangs, they get taken out to break rocks and build roads.
0:35.6	The prisoners are a cheap and freely available resource that the authorities farm out to break rocks and build roads. The prisoners are a cheap and freely available resource that
0:40.0	the authorities farm out to private enterprise. Health and safety, that's not a priority.
0:45.9	A 24-year-old inmate, Richard Rees Whitmore, knows all about the injuries you can sustain
0:53.6	working in this place.
0:55.8	It wasn't so long ago that he burned his arm on the electric iron used to smooth out shoe
1:00.7	leather. The wound still hasn't healed, and he has to go every afternoon to the prison hospital
1:06.5	to get the dressing changed. What the guards don't know is that the injury was self-inflicted.
1:14.5	You see, this is Whitmore's second stretch in the Maryland pen.
1:19.9	He knows his way around the prison,
1:21.8	and he knows that the hospital is the weakest link in the prison security,
1:26.6	which is why he deliberately burned himself
1:29.4	and made sure it was bad enough to need hospital treatment.
1:34.8	After serving his first sentence,
1:36.7	Whitmore had been on the outside for less than a year
1:39.8	before he was incarcerated again,
1:42.4	and now he's facing 15 years for his part in the armed robbery of a diamond salesman.
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