The Flying Bandit - Ken Leishman (MB)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Episode 123 - Born during the Great Depression, Ken Leishman was a stylish, good looking guy with a Clark Gable moustache. A married father of 7, he was adventurous, smart, charismatic, creative and enterprising. He used his skill as a small aircraft pilot to earn cash first as a fly in mechanic on prairie farms, then as a king cookery salesman. Ken was also deeply in debt, his sales business was failing and he craved an even more lavish lifestyle. To get what he wanted Ken wasn't above stealing it, but often got caught going back for more. After flying all the way to Toronto to rob banks on two separate occasions Ken was dubbed the Flying Bandit after getting caught during his second failed bank robbery.After Ken's release, he had an even more elaborate heist in mind - making off with a few hundred pounds of gold bullion in what would be the greatest gold theft in Canadian history.Sources:[Bandit - A portrait of Ken Leishman by Wayne Tefs] [Lost: Unsolved Mysteries of Canadian Aviation by Shirlee Smith Matheson] [In the Mind of a Mountie - Google Play][This Was Manitoba: Kenneth Leishman - The Flying Bandit (UPDATED)][Ottawa Citizen - Ken Leishman - Google News Archive Search][Newspapers.com search - Ken Leishman + Canada][Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit - video dailymotion][Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit - YouTube][Court Briefing for 1966 trial of Ken Leishman et al, Winnipeg Gold Heist][The Flying Bandit - Winnipeg Free Press][Canada history: Mar.1, 1966: the Great Winnipeg Gold Heist – RCI | English][The Flying Bandit - Winnipeg Free Press][The ‘flying bank robber’ died hard | Maclean’s | DECEMBER 29, 1980] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:10.8	of Dark Poutine. After episode 149, you will find Scott is no longer with the show.
0:16.9	In an effort to maintain continuity and offer listeners as many episodes as possible,
0:22.1	we are leaving the episodes in which he co-hosted intact. Thank you.
0:30.0	Welcome to Dark Poutine, I'm Mike Brown creator and host with me as usual back at home in his
0:48.0	bunker is my good friend and co-host Scott, him and way say hello Scott. It's cold in this bunker.
0:55.4	Is it colder there? It's a little chilly. Yeah. Oh, just because you're in your basement bunker.
1:01.4	I'm in my basement in my PJs and a t-shirt. Oh, in your gym jams and you're wearing that
1:06.1	Poutine shirt that I've seen you in every single day that we've logged in together and talked.
1:12.4	You have that exact same shirt on. It must actually be able to just peel off your body now.
1:18.8	Well, it was washed on Wednesday and then I wore it Thursday and Friday because I love it.
1:28.0	Yeah, it's a nice shirt. And most of my shirts and with my added 25 pounds, most of my shirts no
1:35.1	longer are fitting. So this is one that still fits. Oh, you should go into my closet. There's a
1:41.3	plethora of different sizes. I just I'm going to have to start working out again or running or
1:48.0	some crap. Well, now that I've hurt my foot, I have a 10 to 9 is on the top of my foot. I can't go
1:54.0	for my walks. Oh, my God. Yeah, I hurt myself walking. Just way more than you're trying to do the
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2:21.3	On the topics we present, nor are we journalists who are too ordinary Canadians chatting about crime
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