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Mar 10, 2017 · Mug shot of fake blind man and career criminal Carl Synnerdahl. Unknown to me, however, Synnerdahl had hit upon an audacious scheme to have his sentence drastically reduced: he feigned blindness.
- Bill Hosking
At the age of four, Carl Synnerdahl stole the milkman’s draught horse and tried to hide it in his bedroom. It was the mischievous little tyke’s first brush with the law.
May 16, 2020 · Carl Synnerdahl, the infamous bank robber who escaped from jail after convincing authorities he’d gone blind, has died at his Barossa Valley home aged 76. Synnerdahl, who grew up in Sydney, committed his first crime at four when he stole the milkman’s horse and attempted to hide it in his house.
- Australia's First Serial Killer Frank Butler
- The Infamous Sydney Lottery Kidnapper
- Bank Robber Who Pretended to Be Blind
- The Chase For Skase
- The Capture of 'Rug Lord' Tony Mokbel
Frank Butler’s extradition was one of the earliest, and certainly one of the most bizarre, in Australia’s history. Butler was suspected of murdering three men in New South Wales in the mid-1890s, luring them into the Blue Mountains under the pretence of searching for gold, before robbing and killing them. He's thought by many to be Australia's firs...
Stephen Leslie Bradley was part of an infamous kidnap and murder case that drew national attention in 1960. In June 1960, Bondi father Bazil Thorne won the first prize in the Sydney Opera House lottery. There were no privacy provisions for lottery winners in those days, and Thorne happily posed for photos and gave his name to the local papers. Seve...
Compared to the rest of his criminal career, Carl Synnerdahl's extradition was reasonably straight forward. Synnerdahl was accused of robbing the National Bank of Australasia in Brisbane in 1974, and making off with more than $130,000. He was arrested in Hong Kong, and was housed in a psychiatric facility for more than a month while he awaited extr...
Extradition cases involving Australia gain notoriety for their failures as much as their successes. Nothing sums that up more than the attempts to have failed businessman Christopher Skase returned to Australia to face charges over the collapse of his business empire. Skase racked up debts of $700 million in Australia, and left the country for Spai...
Victorian gangland figure Tony Mokbel fled to Greece while awaiting trial on cocaine-trafficking charges in 2006. He was arrested in Athens in 2007, wearing the now-famous but unconvincing black wig that earned him the moniker "rug lord". The process to extradite the man known as 'Fat Tony' was long and arduous. Mokbel told the court it was impossi...
- Tim Callanan
Sep 21, 2013 · The "blind'' prisoner is Carl Synnerdahl, who suffered a mysterious ailment as soon as he entered jail on armed robbery charges and lost his sight. While most officers believe it is a con ...
Apr 10, 2016 · Synnerdahl, who served time in Pentridge Prison, now lives in a hamlet in the Barossa Valley. But his health has begun to fail. He has had a femoral bypass, a new heart valve, a stent, a bowel operation and a malignant lump removed — but he says country life suits him.
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The film is based on the true story of Carl Synnerdahl, a convict who posed as a blind man to get a lighter sentence and had been forced to keep up the deception. He told his story to literary agent Rosemary Cresswell, who was doing some work for the Department of Corrective Services, who in turn told the story to producer Errol Sullivan.
