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Vietas: Lapland's Greatest Heist

By: Jenny Rogneby
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  • Summary

  • It’s the week before Easter in 1971, and at the local power plant in rural Lapland, the workers are heading out for the morning shift. But something’s different - a safe has been robbed, and no one knows how. In Vietas, award-winning crime author Jenny Rogneby explores the case of the missing money, why it was so badly handled and why, to this day, it remains unsolved.

    This three-part true crime series is different: it features waterfalls and reindeers, but no murders. It a tale of a crime executed in a spectacularly specific way, but also of a small Swedish town in the middle of nowhere, where everybody and nobody is a suspect.

    A Soundtelling production for Audible Originals.

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Episodes
  • Ep. 1: A Hole in the Floor

    Ep. 1: A Hole in the Floor
    Jul 28 2020

    In the first episode, we travel far up into the mountains of Lapland, to take a trip down memory lane. Over 600 workers were staying in barracks around a power plant. What at first seemed like a normal day on the job soon turns into a crime scene like no other. The office safe has been robbed of all paychecks, and every single worker is a potential suspect.
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    36 mins
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  • Ep. 2: Problems with the Investigation

    Ep. 2: Problems with the Investigation
    Jul 28 2020

    When the police arrive at the scene of the crime, they’re left speechless. The levels of skill and planning involved are remarkable, and by reading documents previously never seen by anyone outside of the police force, Jenny Rogneby takes us one step closer to figuring out what happened on that fateful night in 1971.
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    44 mins
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  • Ep. 3: Ten Years of Dead Ends

    Ep. 3: Ten Years of Dead Ends
    Jul 28 2020

    The case was open for 10 years. From the beginning, the most pressing question was whether or not it was an inside job. The police reached out to the public and were flooded with leads; some helpful, some not. In this final episode of the series, a phone call to the person ‘everyone knows committed the crime’ is the last chance to get answers.

    The case was open for 10 years and in total the investigation spanned to over 6000 pages. Lead after lead, after lead that never led to a clear conclusion. There were two options, either it was a inside job - or someone from the outside. Against all logic, the police put down a lot of resources to track down an outsider. But how could they miss the most obvious, logical route? And why has nobody ever been caught?
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    34 mins
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Fascinating heist

Stranger than fiction. Well narrated apart from the unnecessary obscuring of the main suspect's voice in English translation

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Evocative, but frustrating that not more happens

I enjoyed this series, it is well produced, and reminded me of the time I spent visiting Gällivare a few years ago. However, as the crime was never solved, it is a little frustrating that there is no real resolution, and the series perhaps could have been cut down in length a little. But still, a nice listen about a topic I had not heard of before, narrated with a soothing Swedish accent.

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Mildly interesting

No real breakthroughs in this investigation, mainly demos of how tight knit northern Sweden was, and the incompetence of the village plods. But it was listenable. One or two usages were strange like referring to the robbery as a coup all the time and the actors pronouncing "navvy" like "navy" all the time.

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Very good! Interesting listen. Genius coup!

Will admit, it has made me look more into this.

Nice to hear interviews with those were around and suspected. Would love to know who did it!

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Coup

The narrator had a lovely voice but why did no one point out that she mispronounces “coup” all the way through. English is not her first language but the production team must have listened to this before signing it off. She uses the word coup about 100 times per episode and by the 3rd episode it got REALLY annoying. Otherwise, as I said, a lovely narrator I just wish she’d had the opportunity to have it pointed out.

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robbery

fabulous podcast never heard of this amazing crime, unbelievable but true would make an excellent crime film.
highly recommended listening

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okay

It was okay but not gripping, more about the location and workers than the heist

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Very good short documentary

A very good listen, good level of detail and description. The narrator did a very good job of getting the story across.

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intriguing story.

its a good story and a great heist, but lack of intensity and action made this story a little boring. but its still a good story and a great performance

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Excellent crime story

Really loved it. Well narrated and quite a compelling mystery. A great story about a heist with an almost Italian job feel.

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