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138: The 1973 Kenora Bank Robbery Mystery (ON)

June 12, 2025August 24, 2020 by Mike Browne

Episode 138 – On the afternoon of May 10, 1973, a stranger entered the CIBC branch on Main St in the small town of Kenora, Ontario. The man, claiming he had a bomb, demanded all the money in the bank. (Photo credit: Don Dutton, Toronto Star)

Sources:
CJRL Covers the Kenora Bank Robbery 10 May 1973
Devil’s Gap by Joe Ralko
https://unidentified.wikia.org/wiki/Paul_Higgins
https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/missing-disparus/case-dossier.jsf?case=2016065871&id=10
https://www.thestar.com/photos/toronto_star_photo_blog/2017/05/remembering-don-dutton-through-his-photos.html
https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/1067788  (gore warning)
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Sentencing/Cases/Robbery#Bank_robbery
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/bank-crime-statistics-2018.pdf/view
https://www.trentu.ca/indigenous/welcome/about-chanie-wenjack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Canadian_Imperial_Bank_of_Commerce_bank_robbery

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