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Infamous America

WILLIE SUTTON Ep. 6 | “Reversal of Fortune”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

New York police pick up Willie Sutton, but at first, they’re not sure of his identity. As realization dawns, Willie must make a choice about his future. He has a chance to escape custody, but he thinks he might be too old to take it. Eventually, the lifelong felon returns to prison. He survives a long stretch at Attica State Prison before he reinvents himself as a consultant for banks and lawmen who want to tap into his well of bank robbing knowledge. 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.

0:10.0

And the natural extension of those is a game that allows me to experience the mystery instead of just reading it or watching it.

0:17.0

Dawn your own Detective Hat in June's Journey.

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. On February 18th, 1952, time was running out for Willie Sutton. He just didn't know it yet. He had broken out of Holmesburg

1:25.2

prison outside Philadelphia almost exactly five years earlier. For most of that time,

1:30.9

he had stayed free by living a very low-key life on Staten Island.

1:35.9

He had worked at an old age home and had fallen in love with a nurse at the facility.

1:41.3

He and his partner Tommy Cling had likely pulled off a series of smaller robberies, but the big

1:46.8

one happened in March of 1950.

1:50.2

Willie, Tommy, and their getaway driver, John Devanuta, had stolen nearly $64,000 from a branch

1:57.2

of the Manufacturers Trust Company Bank in Queens.

2:01.5

Willie had hoped to use his share of the money to take his new love on her dream vacation

2:05.6

to Ireland, but then a newspaper article exposed his undercover life as a man everyone knew

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