The Murwillumbah Bank Robbery took place in November of 1978. A small country town bank was robbed in the dead of the night and the criminals made off with over $1.7 Million. Over 40 years later, the culprits have never been caught and the money has never been found.
timecodes:
00:00-00:46 – Intro
00:53-02:43 – The Heist
02:44-05:25 – The Magnetic Drill Gang
05:26-07:51 – The Inside Job
07:52-09:49 – Gangster Confession
09:50-10:23 – Outro
sources/info:
https://www.ambassadorlocksmiths.com.au/biggest-robberies-in-australias-history/#:~:text=The%20money%20taken%20would%20be,biggest%20heist%20in%20Australia’s%20history.
https://www.couriermail.com.au/web-stories/free/the-courier-mail/the-unsolved-1-7-million-bank-heist
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/lismore/mbah-bank-17m-raid-mystery-lives-on/news-story/d1f1c7cf16256dc380526f4de1de48a8
https://australiancrimes.com/crimes/magneticdrillgang.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/08/they-got-the-lot-the-mystery-of-the-biggest-bank-heist-in-australias-history
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/graham-kinniburgh–the-quiet-underworld-achiever-20151104-gkqx4e.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-23/murwillumbah-remembers-magnetic-drill-gang-bank-robbery/10519858
Stock footage from:
https://www.storyblocks.com/
music and sfx from:
https://www.epidemicsound.com/
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If you enjoyed this you might very well enjoy the film "Thief" by Michael Mann and starring James Caan.
The safecracking scenes are amazingly accurate.
So if you find rats have eaten a boot full of paper money on a farmers property does that make them a suspect…..?
It was Mick Sayers idea to swap Fine Cotton for another horse . Love the Australian content.
I have to say. In this robbery. Congratulations.
Their you go… I thought it was renewable energy…😊
Good stuff as always!!!😮
Your details are incorrect in first instance you say was all fifties for pay packets then you say used notes from other banks in way for distruction
I lived in Murwillumbah in 1978. I was 6yrs old when this robbery happened.
Great video! Would love to know more about that horse race scandal
Very sneeky know the inners of chubb safes
It seems odd there were not more CCTV moniters and security patrols done. Some one has a bigger grin than the cat at the milk bucket. A lot of people would have had a tough week or two waiting to be paid.
Surely the self professed Genius Lex Luthor was behind this master piece of criminality!!
So didn’t the bank have a monitored alarm system?? How was that disarmed?
Diamond drill gang. Very well known. Sydney gang. I would be guessing that cops were involved, also a lot of corruption in them days .
Real old school sneaking into luggage on a plane to steal $2mil 😅 love it
I was born in Murwillumbah. I was 16 at the time i got the lot. 😮
We all enjoyed the hoopla that went on after. A big deal in a boring country town.
I loved that a local shop keeper soon after had the T shirts printed for sale. I'd love to konw what the sales figures were.
Dirty crims!
Watch “Underbelly” for more of the “munster”!
seein no one got caught id say it was the munster and bertie.
munster was old school played cards close to the chest. not braging about it like the wanna bes today
The bank did it
Good to see the period Holden's etc, parked about the place. Although for mine, ya can't beat a Marrickville Mercedes.
Good shit!
I met a guy who claimed to be
Loose lips sink ships. Granted this was 70’s style but anyone with the access and impetus could’ve reverse engineered who had the unique combo of intel and intent to pull it off.
You don’t knock over Murwillambah bank on the fly, you don’t risk exposing such specific a skill pilfering a bank branch less you KNOW the reward is well worth the risk.
Couple of strategic slings after the fact…. *slaps hands together*… the fuzz suddenly have bigger priorities.
Legends
We barely hear about bank heists these days because of improved security measures and improved technology to protect money
Yep free Brandon..🤟
Ozzy Ozzy..💪💪💪
Has too be a Hilty
Not really!! The answer is in the politicians wallet… 😁😁😁😁😁😁
It's certainly a rare change from the banks stealing from the people …!!!
It's heart warming to hear Bank of America got robbed! They are some of the biggest thieves in banking!
I put three hundred in a B of A savings account one time and left the country. When I got back after six months it had around two seventy in it!
well done mate
He was risking his life if he was lying about orchestrating the heist, so he did it OR he knew who did do it but they were all dead by then.
Criminals dont rob banks, they own them.
Banks rob us blind daily
The only thing you could steal from Murwillumbah now is a meth problem 😂😂