390 - The Qantas Bomb Heist
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McCarry's Plot to Extort a Pan American Jet
Qantas made $78,500 from the sale of the extortionist cars. Only $261,387 of the ransom money was ever recovered. McCarry had told police he initially planned to extort a pan American jet. But he realized only a Qantas flight from Sydney to Hong Kong would be in air long enough for him to get away with the plan. Caught in a short to naked during the court case, detective Sergeant McNeil revealed that Mr. McCarry thought it would work out as a good business plan. In 1973, $137,000 was found hidden in a Balmain house in Sydney's inner-suburban suburbs where there was still a huge chunk of
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