WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 3 | “Escape Artist”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Willie Sutton is back in Sing Sing prison and it doesn’t take him long to develop a plan to escape. But when the plan hits an unexpected snag, Willie teams up with a fellow inmate for a new idea that is even more audacious. The second plan works, and Willie restarts his career as a bank robber. Willie targets branches of a bank in Philadelphia and New York and pulls off his most lucrative heist to date. Bring the Arts home with Marquee TV! Sign up at Marquee.tv and receive 3 months for just 99 cents when you use the promo code AMERICA. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Hit “JOIN” on the Infamous America YouTube homepage. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm4V_wVD7N1gEB045t7-V0w/featured For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Must remember do not forget
0:08.0	remind me to bring photo ID
0:11.0	reminder set babe can you make sure I don't forget Photo ID. Reminder, set.
0:13.0	Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:20.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.7	Find out more at Electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID. Willy Willie Sutton's first bank robbery went badly and produced several hard lessons learned.
0:50.9	Willie and his partner Eddie Wilson had tried to rob the ozone Park National Bank in Queens.
0:56.0	They had spent an entire night drilling through concrete and then cutting through the bank vault with a torch.
1:02.0	The operation took so much time and effort
1:05.6	that they were forced to abandon the job before they even glimpsed the money. They were caught
1:11.2	and sent to Sing Sing Prison.
1:13.0	Then, Willie was transferred to the notoriously terrible prison in upstate New York, commonly called Danamora.
1:21.0	After surviving three years of harsh conditions and a riot two days
1:26.0	before he was paroled, Willie vowed to go straight after he was released. He got
1:31.2	married and started a family and did go straight until the stock market crashed in
1:36.4	October 1929. He lost his job and returned to a life of crime. But this time he had a new plan. He was done with the time-consuming
1:47.1	manual labor of literally breaking into a bank. As he scoped out his new target, he had an epiphany. A man in a uniform could get in almost anywhere.
1:58.0	Willie bought costumes of policemen, firemen, postmen, and delivery men of all kinds.
2:05.0	Now he could stroll up to the front door of the bank, tell a simple lie, and walk right in.
2:12.0	His partner, Marcus Bassett, was mainly the getaway driver,
2:16.0	and their strategy worked like a charm.
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