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Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

The Stopwatch Gang

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History

Curiouscast

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Episode 174 - Between 1974 and 1980, a group of three mask-wearing Canadian outlaws named Stephen Reid, Patrick (Paddy) Mitchell, and Lionel Wright, in well-planned, precisely timed and carefully executed heists, robbed at least 140 banks and armoured cars in Canada and the United States making off with a total of more than $15 million in cash, gold and other valuables.Sources:[The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang | The Atavist Magazine][Stephen Reid fonds - Search Research Collections][Inside Time by Jason Young - NFB][Paddy Mitchell’s Blog - A blog behind bars][Read This Bank Robber’s Life Online by Patrick Mitchell | Books - Scribd.com][The Stopwatch Gang: notorious bank robber, celebrated author dies – RCI | English][Lionel Wright | Today in Ottawa’s History][Stephen Reid - ABC BookWorld][Obituary: Stephen Reid - Ottawa Citizen][Stephen Reid’s 10 toughest prisons in North America] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey Mike here, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Dark Poutine early and

0:04.7

add free on Amazon Music, included with Prime.

0:18.7

Those loons are pretty great and they indicate at the beginning of another episode of Dark Poutine.

0:25.4

I'm Mike Brown, your creator and host and speaking of loons, with me again is our good friend, Matthew.

0:32.4

The Ed McMahon of True Crime Podcast.

0:35.1

That is true. You are you are Ed to my Johnny.

0:37.7

I should see your whole.

0:39.3

Are you Robin to my Batman then?

0:41.6

No, no, Robin's a little.

0:43.6

You're shorter than I am.

0:45.0

That's true.

0:45.8

That's true.

0:46.8

Yeah.

0:49.3

The views, information and opinions expressed during the Dark Poutine podcast

0:54.8

are solely those of the producer and do not necessarily represent those of curious cast.

1:00.8

It's affiliate, global news, nor their parent company, chorus and entertainment.

1:07.5

Dark Poutine is not for the faint of heart or squeamish.

1:10.4

Our content is often intense and some listeners may find it disturbing.

1:13.6

We're not experts on the topics we present nor we journalists.

1:16.8

We're ordinary Canadian schmucks chatting about crime in the Dark Side of history.

1:20.8

Let's get to it.

1:21.9

Put on your tooke.

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