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Vietas: Lapland's Greatest Heist

Written 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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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Good elements but poor execution

Interesting story with no reasonable conclusion. Listeners are not even given the hope of feeling like they know who the suspect may be.

Edits were rough. Different languages and translation cuts were confusing. Repetitive discussion points. Even some small language issues. These all could have been acceptable, but topped with poor story telling it just made for poor listening. Which is too bad because it had exciting elements.

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