Million-Dollar Mail Heist: Thieves Get Away with the Loot in a Slick Airplane Heist

Waukegan, Illinois, June 13, 1924 – In a daring daylight heist, a group of brazen mail bandits made off with a whopping $1 million in cash and valuables from a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul train. The thieves, who used gas bombs to disable the train’s crew, disappeared into thin air – or rather, into the sky – leaving behind a trail of confusion and a stunned law enforcement community.