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Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 8 1. HORAN: “At 5:30 in the morning on Christmas Eve, 1980, Fred Fisher, then the 40-year-old director of the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, awoke to a telephone call from police. Someone had tried to rob the museum. The robbery attempt was on December 22, 1980, so the phone call would have been on December 23 rd , not Christmas eve. The Post-Star December 26, 1980: A van driven by Mary ------- W------, 26, of Watervliet, arrived late Monday [December 22, 1980] When the driver left the van to pick up the package, she was allegedly confronted by a man with a gun who forced her back into the van and made her drive to Oakland Avenue in Glens Falls, which runs parallel to Warren Street and behind the Hyde Collection. So it was December 23, not “Christmas Eve.” http://gardnerheist.com/Hyde_Robbery_12_26_1980.pdf 2. HORAN: “When he was arrested in Glens Falls, McDevitt explained his alias to police by saying “I wa