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Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClain Smith, where

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Speaker 1: for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories

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Speaker 1: and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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Speaker 1: it into the previous show. In last week's episode, A

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Speaker 1: Story of Ice and Fire, we explored the haunting tale

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Speaker 1: of the unknown woman whose burned body was found in

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Speaker 1: the mountains on the outskirts of Bergen and West Norway

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Speaker 1: in November nineteen seventy. Though the case was well documented

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Speaker 1: at the time, it was largely thanks to the tireless

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Speaker 1: work of a team from Norway's public broadcaster NRK, led

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Speaker 1: by journalist married Hegroff, that this story was brought back

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Speaker 1: into the public eye. You can read more about their

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen investigation into the case on NRK's website NRK

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Speaker 1: dot No, but also so through a podcast of their

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Speaker 1: own titled Death in IDs Valley, which was released in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. As part of their investigation, a more lifelike

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Speaker 1: compositate with the woman's face was released alongside a renewed

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Speaker 1: request of information from inter Pole. Though it failed to

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Speaker 1: solve the mystery, it did encourage one man from the

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Speaker 1: commune of fall Back in northeastern France to come forward

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Speaker 1: with an intriguing story. The man claimed that back in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, when he was twenty two years old, he

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Speaker 1: embarked on a sum of romance with the unknown woman,

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Speaker 1: who he recognized from the composite image, only months before

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Speaker 1: her death. He even produced a photo of her to

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Speaker 1: prove it, which many believe is indeed the woman in question,

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Speaker 1: often referred to as the Isdall woman, He claimed she

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Speaker 1: had a Bulkan accent and was very secretive about her life.

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Speaker 1: What she did apparently reveal, however, was that she had

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Speaker 1: several papers that enabled her to travel freely between East

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Speaker 1: and West Germany. The man also claimed to have seen

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Speaker 1: numerous whigs inside one of the suitcases she was traveling.

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Speaker 1: With the strangeness of it all had even prompted him

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Speaker 1: to consider calling the police, believing that she might be

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Speaker 1: a spy, only to decide against it at the last minute. However,

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Speaker 1: her true identity remains elusive. There is an inevitable fascination

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Speaker 1: with the unidentified, whose identities we feel almost obligated to uncover,

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Speaker 1: whether it be to help solve a potential crime that

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Speaker 1: has been committed against them on their behalf, or simply

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Speaker 1: because we think it might honor them in some way

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Speaker 1: to not let their names be forgotten. And yet, as

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Speaker 1: in the case of the isdul woman, when someone seems

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Speaker 1: to work so hard to maintain their anonymity, it could

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Speaker 1: be argued that retaining their anonymity at all costs was

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Speaker 1: what they might have preferred. All of which brings to

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Speaker 1: mind one especially strange story about an unknown individual. It

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Speaker 1: was just approaching three pm on May tenth, nineteen seventy three,

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Speaker 1: on a bright but chilly spring day in the quiet

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Speaker 1: town of Canora and Southern Canada, when a man walked

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Speaker 1: into the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Main Street,

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Speaker 1: about five foot four in height and dressed in a

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Speaker 1: pink plaid bush jacket. It was hard to see much

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Speaker 1: of his face other than the sprawling red beard under

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Speaker 1: the small checkered for Dora that he pulled tightly over

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Speaker 1: his head. Bank manager our Reid was busy on a

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Speaker 1: call when the man, who had a large duffel bag

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Speaker 1: slung over one arm and a satchel over the other,

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Speaker 1: Despite hour's protestations that he was busy, the man refused

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Speaker 1: to budge. When now asked him what he wanted. He

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Speaker 1: pointed to a pistol peeking out of his top pocket

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Speaker 1: and said calmly to the startled manager that he wanted

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Speaker 1: all the money in the bank. The man then told

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Speaker 1: Reid to call the local police and inform them that

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Speaker 1: a robbery was taking place. A few minutes later, Constable

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Speaker 1: Bill Grinnell, Corporal John Letchkin, Inspector Walter my Callisian, and

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Speaker 1: Corporal Norm Baxter converged at the bank to find a

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Speaker 1: steady stream of people hastily leaving the building. The robber

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Speaker 1: had told them all to evacuate the premises. Unsure what

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Speaker 1: to do next, the four law enforcement officials stepped inside

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Speaker 1: the bank to find the robber, who by now had

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Speaker 1: pulled a silk stocking over his head, standing behind one

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Speaker 1: of the counters alongside al Reid with some kind of

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Speaker 1: contraption in his hands. The man addressed the police and

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Speaker 1: invited them one at a time to look inside his satchel,

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Speaker 1: which he'd placed on top of the counter. As they

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Speaker 1: he had in his hand was a dead man's switch, which,

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Speaker 1: as the officers soon realized, was wied up to not

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Speaker 1: only a detonation device inside the bag, but also the

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Speaker 1: them all up in an instant and probably take the

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Speaker 1: Having realized what was happening, he ran immediately to the

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Speaker 1: team to discuss what they should do about it. Minutes later,

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Speaker 1: the crew were busy threading cables through rooms as two

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Speaker 1: order to commentate live on the drama unfolding below them.

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Speaker 1: Back inside the bank, with the robber having ordered three

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Speaker 1: of the police to leave the building. Only he Al

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Speaker 1: Reid and Corporal Letchkin remained. With the dead man's trigger

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Speaker 1: clutched tightly in the robber's hand. The other men could

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Speaker 1: only watch in horror as he casually transferred it from

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Speaker 1: his hand to his mouth so he could toss the

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Speaker 1: duffel bag to Corporal Letchkin. Then grabbing the trigger with

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Speaker 1: his hand again, he ordered him to empty the cash

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Speaker 1: emptying out the contents of its numerous cash boxes. Once

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Speaker 1: Officer Don Millard arrived at the Canora Police Station ready

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Speaker 1: station Chief Charles Engstrom, relaying the robber's latest demands to

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Speaker 1: all those on duty at the time. As Engstrom explained,

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Speaker 1: the man was armed with at least two guns and

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Speaker 1: a bag full of dynamite, and had requested a driver

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Speaker 1: Engstrom wanted to know if anyone was willing to volunteer

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Speaker 1: A short time later, after a green Dodge was delivered

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Speaker 1: Millard surveyed the scene. Two sets of officers with guns

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Speaker 1: Feeling a little boulder, Millard eased the truck to a

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Speaker 1: his chest, killing him almost instantly, in turn releasing the

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Speaker 1: The explosion had blown Millard twenty feet away, obliterated most

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Speaker 1: facades in globules of flesh and blood, while all about

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand Canadian dollars of cash reigned down onto

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Speaker 1: standing a block away from the explosion, stood staring in

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Speaker 1: disbelief at the bloody, pulpy, severed hand that had just

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Speaker 1: As detailed in Joe Ralco's twenty seventeen book The Devil's Gap,

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Speaker 1: which provides a speculative account of this extraordinary story, one

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Speaker 1: man who'd stayed to watch the attempted robbery was the

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Speaker 1: manager of Canora's ken Rissia Hotel. He'd watched with shock

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Speaker 1: when the robber exited the bank wearing the exact same

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Speaker 1: As he swiftly informed the police, the man had checked

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Speaker 1: in seventeen days previously, on April twenty third, under the

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Speaker 1: name of Paul Higgins of four three five Glenn Drive

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Speaker 1: in Toronto, Ontario. The manager had thought it odd that

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Speaker 1: the man had booked to stay for two weeks only

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Speaker 1: to then disappear for ten days before returning on the

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Speaker 1: fifth of May, five days before the robbery. Officers were

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