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It was the late 1940s in Boston, Massachusetts, and a group of career criminals had a crazy idea. They wanted to rob the Brinks\u2019 armored car depot. If they could pull it off, it would be the biggest robbery in United States history. For two years, they planned and plotted. They broke into the building to get a lay of the land. They stole the building\u2019s lock cylinders, brought them to a locksmith, had keys made, and replaced the cylinders \u2014 all before the building reopened the next day. By the time they finally committed the robbery, they were like a well oiled machine. They were slick. They were smart. And they almost got away with it.

Then Brandi tells a story that hits close to home. On June 2, 2007, 18-year-old Kelsey Smith went to Target to find an anniversary present for her boyfriend. The trip shouldn\u2019t have taken long. When Kelsey didn\u2019t return home right away, her family started to worry. They searched for her, hoping that maybe she\u2019d had car trouble. But a few hours later, they discovered her car in the parking lot of a nearby mall. Their hearts sank. Her wallet, purse, and Target bags were in the vehicle \u2014 but Kelsey was nowhere to be found.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cBrink\u2019s Robbery\u201d fbi.gov
\n\u201cThe Great Brink\u2019s Robbery of 1950: Not Quite the Perfect Crime,\u201d New England Historical Society

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cKelsey Smith: Gone in an Instant\u201d episode See No Evil
\n\u201cEdwin Hall Guilty in Kelsey Smith Killing\u201d by Diane Carroll, Laura Bauer, and Joe Lambe, The Kansas City Star
\n\u201cEdwin Hall: I\u2019m So, So Sorry\u201d KMBC 9 News
\n\u201cMurder of Kelsey Smith\u201d wikipedia.org