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MYW: York’s Ski Masks, Stolen Stamps & Skulduggery

MYW: York’s Ski Masks, Stolen Stamps & Skulduggery

Art heists, stamp scams, and stolen skulls... York’s strangest crimes uncovered.

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling · BBC Radio 5 Live

June 5, 202522m 18s

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Show Notes

Laura heads to York to unravel Craig Townend's £1m art gallery heist leads to even more bizarre thefts in England's most haunted city.

Plus, Iain shares York's weirdest theft stories: a replica skull stolen from the city's most haunted pub on New Year's Eve, and the tale of a German student who "liberated" an organ pipe from York Minster in 1969.

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