The Banker Under the Bridge — Who Really Killed God's Banker?

Send us Fan Mail The morning of the 18th of June 1982. A postal clerk crossing London's Blackfriars Bridge looks up into the scaffolding and sees a man hanging from an orange rope. Expensive grey suit. Watch stopped at ten to two. And in his pockets: nearly twelve pounds of broken bricks, fifteen thousand dollars in four currencies, and a passport in a false name. His name was Roberto Calvi — "God's Banker" — because his bank did secret business with the Vatican itself. Ten days earlier, that bank had collapsed with a hole in it worth over a billion dollars. Tonight, the companion to The Alchemists, Mark and Grim follow the money all the way to where it stops being a number and becomes a body. The Vatican Bank and an archbishop who looked like a bouncer. The Mafia cash laundered through shell companies. The secret Masonic lodge, P2 — whose members called themselves the frati neri: the black friars. Calvi was hanged beneath Blackfriars Bridge. Coincidence, or a signed message? Ruled suicide. Then reopened. Then, sixteen years later, his body exhumed — clean hands, no scaffold paint, neck injuries that don't fit a hanging. The verdict became murder. And when five men finally stood trial? Every one acquitted. The murder is real. The murderer is a ghost. Follow the money to the very top… and something up there might be following you back. Please leave a review - what do you like? From the shadows. Stay curious, stay sceptical — and never agree to meet anyone under a bridge. And we will catch you again, somewhere in time... 🎧 The Evident Conspiracy Files · TheECF.co.uk · Follow us on X Next to nothing dark enough for you? Try our new sister show — Grim Stories: original dark fiction from the shadows. Support the show Our new show - GRIM STORIES - is now available... https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/grim-stories/id6794635228