‘Great Train Robber’ Bruce Reynolds dies

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By Adam Bernstein, Thursday, February 28, 8:14 PM

Bruce Reynolds, who masterminded the so-called “Great Train Robbery,” one of the most audacious and lucrative heists in English history, and considered the episode his “Sistine Chapel ceiling” in a career of thievery, died Feb. 28 at 81 ...

The theft netted 2.6 million British pounds, what would be today the equivalent of more than $40 million. Several participants — there were upward of 15 — evaded capture for years and earned a place in pop-culture lore as rebels presumably beyond the law’s reach ...

After the robbery, Mr. Reynolds escaped to Mexico with his wife, Angela, and young son and lived extravagantly with his share of the plunder, about 150,000 British pounds. As the cash dried up, Mr. Reynolds moved his family to Canada and then France under false identities in order to find work ...

Desperate for income, Mr. Reynolds slipped back into England with the promise of work from his old underworld contacts. He was arrested in 1968 in the seaside resort town of Torquay when chief superintendent Tommy Butler, long in pursuit, knocked at his door early one morning ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/great-train-robber-bruce-reynolds-dies/2013/02/28/a35f2fc4-81c1-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html

[graham4anything]

1. He was a criminal, not a movie star. Not someone to idolize.

[struggle4progress]

2. Yes. The article actually tells a rather unhappy story IMO

[Raine]

3. It's doesn't seem like a good life to live, wouldn't be worth it to me. nt

[struggle4progress]

4. Agreed