Police were baffled after someone used a cutting torch to open the vault in a store in the LaHaye building in Ville Platte early in the morning of June 21, 1962. The culprits got away with $20,000 — which may still be the biggest robbery ever in Evangeline Parish.
The police might have stayed baffled if one of the robbers, disgruntled over his share of the loot, hadn’t decided to tell all.
John…