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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Roberto Calvi

Shattered Souls

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Roberto Calvi, who was nicknamed "God's Banker" because of his ties to the Vatican, was found hanged beneath Blackfriar's Bridge in London in 1982. Police ruled it a suicide--but was it really?

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0:00.0

I'm Joe joined as always by Devon and Steve and we're going to be talking this

0:29.7

week about another Groovy Mystery. It's a really groovy mystery. Yeah it's

0:35.8

fun because it's got like it's got a whole trail of bodies and stuff. There's a

0:40.0

lot of things going on. There's a lot of moving parts. Yeah there's a lot

0:43.1

kinds of cool stuff. So we're going to be talking about God's Banker aka

0:48.1

Roberto Caldys. Before I go any further I want to stop and thank Emily for

0:52.7

suggesting this particular mystery. Yeah yeah it's a good one. It's very

0:56.4

convoluted. It's right up here now. Yeah would you guys not agree? This is a

1:01.2

twisted mystery. It's a huge hole. There's intrigue. Yeah so Caldys, we're going to

1:07.8

Caldys. It was found dead on the morning of June 18th 1982 in the city of

1:13.3

London England. He was hanging from scaffolding underneath Black Friars Bridge

1:19.0

which I'm sure you're all familiar with. Yeah right. I did check it out on a

1:22.7

street view. Of course. Weird. It's a cool bridge actually. That anyway the

1:28.8

bridge was undergoing some renovations and that's why there's scaffolding

1:31.6

surrounding it and he apparently climbed that onto the scaffolding and tied a

1:37.9

rope to it and the other end around and run his neck and jumped into the

1:41.2

water. So it was not high enough for him to actually dangle in the air. Because

1:46.3

the tide was in. The tide was in. The water was high. So he was dressed in a

1:50.4

suit and tie. At the time they found him his feet were still dangling in the

1:54.1

tams but the tide had gone out quite a bit and so originally he probably

1:58.4

would have been in up to his waist if not a little higher. They found bricks and

2:02.5

pieces of masonry stuffed into his jacket, his seat jacket pockets and down his

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