Sean Flynn

A lot of people gave a lot of names to the police, 80 or so altogether. Police gathered the passport photos of those 80 or so people.

That was in November 1981, 18 months after the central bank job.

That was in November 1981, 18 months after the central bank job.

There is, from one perspective, beauty in those smallest of details. Any lunkhead can point a gun at a bank teller and demand money, and those lunkheads almost always get caught. Martin got away with 19 bank robberies because of everything that came before that moment.

There is, from one perspective, beauty in those smallest of details. Any lunkhead can point a gun at a bank teller and demand money, and those lunkheads almost always get caught. Martin got away with 19 bank robberies because of everything that came before that moment.

The planning, developing the characters and the accents and disguises, the rehearsals, the little touches designed specifically to throw investigators off his tail.

The planning, developing the characters and the accents and disguises, the rehearsals, the little touches designed specifically to throw investigators off his tail.

He revealed those details for two reasons. One, since they'd never been made public, the police would understand that only the real robber would know them.

He revealed those details for two reasons. One, since they'd never been made public, the police would understand that only the real robber would know them.

two they're sublime martin was creating characters bank robbers all of them but still each one a character with a backstory and habits and quirks it was inevitable really that he would confess it all i was in the theater but i wanted more to be an actor i've been acting lots in theater since i was a little boy i was in the theater

two they're sublime martin was creating characters bank robbers all of them but still each one a character with a backstory and habits and quirks it was inevitable really that he would confess it all i was in the theater but i wanted more to be an actor i've been acting lots in theater since i was a little boy i was in the theater

Martin had written and directed 19 performances, almost all of them flawless. And if one wasn't flawless, he improvised, never broke character. And yet no one had ever applauded. Confessing was his curtain call.

Martin had written and directed 19 performances, almost all of them flawless. And if one wasn't flawless, he improvised, never broke character. And yet no one had ever applauded. Confessing was his curtain call.

And I'm not sure I believe that story. Still, it's a nice scene. Martin and his no longer stumped pursuers having a chuckle and a meal together. The Coca-Cola is a nice touch. Bjorn eventually was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to seven years in prison, though he was released after less than three.

And I'm not sure I believe that story. Still, it's a nice scene. Martin and his no longer stumped pursuers having a chuckle and a meal together. The Coca-Cola is a nice touch. Bjorn eventually was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to seven years in prison, though he was released after less than three.

As for Martin, he was convicted on multiple counts of bank robbery in the spring of 1982 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. With time off for good behavior and such, he served only eight months. He made very good use of those years. Scandinavian attitudes towards crime and punishment are considerably more pragmatic than, say, American ones. Martin went to school, university, then law school.

As for Martin, he was convicted on multiple counts of bank robbery in the spring of 1982 and sentenced to 12 years in prison. With time off for good behavior and such, he served only eight months. He made very good use of those years. Scandinavian attitudes towards crime and punishment are considerably more pragmatic than, say, American ones. Martin went to school, university, then law school.

He became the lawyer his mother always wanted him to be. You robbed 19 banks, but somehow don't seem to have been seen as a bad guy.

He became the lawyer his mother always wanted him to be. You robbed 19 banks, but somehow don't seem to have been seen as a bad guy.

And I did, in a way, but that was too late. About the time Martin was getting out of prison in 1990, his mother bought a three-story building in the center of Osgutstrand, a little village on the fjord south of Oslo, and only a few miles from Tonsberg, where he grew up. Martin moved into the top two floors, which left the ground floor vacant.