Episode #42: The Great Boston Brinks Robbery & the 1950 Zodiac Back

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Oct 16, 2024
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10/16/2024: On today’s episode, Valerie shares the story of an 11 man Boston underworld crew who nearly pulled off “the perfect crime”, also dubbed “the crime of the century” (but we think they might’ve been jumping the gun on both). The heist, which took place on a cold January night in 1950 was meticulously and obsessively planned by Anthony “Fats” Pino, and it almost worked out. Almost. Next, Amy Jo starts Season 2’s walk through the Zodiac signs, starting with all things Aries. We reflect on understanding and communicating with other people through astrology, which can be tiring - or is it a virus? The Zodiac Back concludes by considering our current sky, including the Aries full moon, and previewing some significant astro events in Aries coming in 2025.

Cover Photo: Anthony Pino, 48, is taken from the local FBI headquarters for arraignment in 1956 in connection with the Brink's robbery. Bettmann/Getty Images

Present-day North Terminal Garage in Boston, site of the Great Brink's Robbery in 1950
Top (left to right) are: Michael Vincent Geagan, 47; Vincent James Costa, 41; Henry Baker, 49. Bottom (left to right) are: Anthony Pino, 48; Joseph F. McGinnis, 52; and Adolph Maffie, 44. Bettmann.
Brink's robbery perpetrators (L-R, top) Stanley Albert Gusciora, Joeseph James O'Keefe, Joseph Sylvester Banfield. (L-R, bottom) James Ignatius Faherty, and Thomas Francis Richardson. Bettmann/Getty Images.
Captain Marvel mask used as a disguise in the robbery.
An artist's diagram of offices of the Brink's showing how seven masked gunmen entered the building and confronted five employees and made away with $1,500,000. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.
A reenactment of the Brink's robbery in 1950. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.
Cap left behind at the Brinks Headquarters.
Los Angeles Examiner, 1956
FBI agents and Boston police seized between $70,000 and $90,000 of the Brink’s robbery loot in a raid on the B&P contracting company in Boston’s South End in 1956. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Graphic from astrala.com
Graphic from www.astrograph.com