1984: year of the original Ghostbusters film. David Lange replaced Robert Muldoon as Prime Minister. POI-E by the Patea Māori Club was top of the charts. And a trio of crims took a lot of money - fast.
"The Heist - The Birkenhead Foodtown Robbery" is the story of what happened when armed robbers held up an Amour Guard truck outside Foodtown in Auckland's Birkenhead, stealing over one million dollars in today's money. It took them less than three minutes.
Scott Bainbridge, one of the country's most prominent true-crime authors, talks Jesse through the story.
Photo: Bateman Books
