The identity of the perpetrator of a bank robbery has been found after 52 years

The American police announced that they had identified the identity of the perpetrator of one of the most notorious cases in the country after 52 years of its implementation, as a man robbed a bank in Ohio in 1969, but the police said they were able to identify him, but six months after his death.

According to the American magazine Newsweek, police officials said, on Saturday, that the attempt to identify the perpetrator of the robbery continued for decades.

She explained that the crime occurred on a summer day in 1969, when a person managed to steal $215,000 in a suitcase, and the value of the stolen amount was equivalent to about $1.7 million in 2021.

And she added that due to the theft taking place on Friday, the missing money was not discovered until two days later.


The magazine said that the investigators were unable to uncover any clues in the case at the time, and several parties participated in the search for the thief who they believed had fled to Europe.

A number of television programs interested in crimes showed that case, whose mystery was only solved last week, when investigators revealed that he was living under a pseudonym, and were able to verify his personal papers, which turned out to match someone else's file that had been filed in bankruptcy court. 2014.


Using these documents, along with more investigative information, they were able to solve the decades-old case.

Investigators later learned that he had been living another life in a Massachusetts suburb since the 1970s, and prosecutors could not charge him, as they learned that he died of lung cancer last May at the age of 71, and he is said to have confessed to the crime on his deathbed.

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