WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 4 | “Maximum Security”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Willie Sutton and his crew execute their most dramatic robbery, but the success proves to be short-lived. Willie finds himself a guest of the Pennsylvania prison system and promptly starts scheming ways to break out of Eastern State Penitentiary. He and a group of inmates use a classic escape idea, but it backfires in comical fashion. After Willie is transferred to Holmesburg Prison, he dreams up his most daring escape plan. 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	Attention lovers of mysteries. I certainly count myself as one. In recent years, I've become flat out addicted to British and Scottish mystery novels, movies and TV shows.
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0:20.5	A free hidden object mobile game that delves into the captivating journey of June Parker, a self-proclaimed detective on a quest to unravel the mystery surrounding her sister's untimely death.
0:32.0	It's said in the glitz and glamour of the roaring surrounding her sister's untimely death.
0:32.6	It's said in the glitz and glamour of the roaring 20s,
0:35.7	and you play is June, deciphering clues and uncovering secret plots
0:40.4	within thousands of beautifully illustrated scenes.
0:43.0	New chapters are added to the game each week,
0:46.0	and you can personalize and decorate your very own orchid island
0:50.0	where the story takes place.
0:51.0	Download June's Journey on your Android or iOS device or play online via
0:56.9	Facebook games. Your detective journey awaits. You're going to. In July 1933, 1933, Willie Sutton and two accomplices robbed a branch of the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Company in New York.
1:27.0	Reportedly, they walked away with at least $24,000.
1:32.0	Today, that would be more than 570,000.
1:35.6	Split three ways, each man should have kept the equivalent of at least $190,000.
1:42.4	That was certainly enough to live off of for the rest of 1933, and it capped an eventful
1:47.8	seven months for the man who would be known as Slick Willie and the Gentleman Robber. He had escaped from Sing Sing Prison in December
1:56.6	1932. According to some reports, he tried to rob a bank just three days later but failed.
2:04.0	Exactly two months later, in February 1933,
2:07.8	he definitely tried to rob a branch of the corn exchange
2:10.8	in Philadelphia, but that one failed too.
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