298: Robbery Gone Wrong. Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.

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May 12, 2025 • 66 mins

On October 11th, 1923, deep in Tunnel 13 high in the Siskiyou mountains of Oregon, four men were killed in a train robbery gone wrong. The trio responsible, the DeAutremont brothers, had planned the crime and dreamed of stealing their way to a life of riches but made a series of fatal mistakes that would haunt them forever. What has gone down in Pacific Northwest history as “the last great American train robbery” is also recognized as the birth of modern American forensic criminology.

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Book: Tragedy at Southern Oregon Tunnel 13: DeAutremonts Hold Up the Southern Pacific by Scott Mangold

Documentaries: Oregon Public Broadcasting: Murder on the Southern Pacific, Anchor Pictures: The Crime of the d'Autremont Brothers

Articles: Oregon Encyclopedia, Historic Missourians, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Environment Oregon Research and Policy Center, The Wilderness Society, Jefferson Public Radio

Podcasts: Criminalia: The Day the DeAutremont Brothers Bungled the Robbery of Southern Pacific Train No. 13

Videos: Jesse James (1939) trailer, KTVL 10

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