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In fact, French media has been referring to the main suspects as the Grandpa Robbers, due to their advanced ages — the eldest defendant is 78.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

They also learned that the body belonged to George Leslie, King of the Bank Robbers.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2023

“There was a kind of breadth of vision about Robbers Cave that is very much missing in that tightly controlled laboratory deception of something like Milgram. He was trying to tackle big issues.”

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2018

Fielding's contribution was an investigation into the crime, entitled an Enquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2014

His best novels, "Attila," "Philip Augustus," "Mary of Burgundy," "The Robbers," "The Smugglers," "Morley Ernstein," "Henry Masterton," are happy specimens of the historical romance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various