Friday, September 13, 2024

The Recovery of Ottawa's Missing Churchill Photo

 Several sites have articles about the recovery of the Karsh photo of Winston Churchill that was stolen from the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa a few years ago.

The Ottawa Citizen has an overview which says that the photo will be back in the hotel within a month.

An article in the CBC identifies the thief and the buyer (who bought the photo at an auction and didn't know it was stolen).

The Toronto Star also has an article.

Sunday, August 18, 2024

LA: Bank Robbery Capital of the World

 CrimeReads.com has an article about a period in the 1980s and 90s when there was an average of one bank robbery every hour in Los Angeles.

Between 1985 and 1995 the approximately 3,500 retail bank branches in the region were hit 17,106 times. 1992, the worst year of all, there was an almost unimaginable 2,641 heists, one every 45 minutes of each banking day. On a particularly bad day for the FBI that year, bandits committed 28 bank licks.