True Crime

Cold cases, heists and the people who chased them.

5 rabbit holes

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  HeistsThirteen empty framesBoston, 1990, the night after St. Patrick’s Day. Two men dressed as police officers talk their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tie up the guards and leave 81 minutes later with 13 works, among them a Vermeer and Rembrandt’s only seascape.3 stages · 1 h 5 min
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  Unsolved · Cold WarThe Isdal WomanNovember 1970, a valley above Bergen. A burned body, every label cut from her clothes, and two suitcases full of wigs and coded notes. Fifty years later, nobody knows her name.4 stages · 59 min
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  UnsolvedThe man on Somerton beachDecember 1948. A well-dressed man is found dead on a beach near Adelaide. Every label has been cut from his clothes. In a hidden pocket: a scrap of paper torn from a book of Persian poetry, with two words. “Tamám Shud”: it is ended.4 stages · 47 min
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  HeistsThe heist of the centuryFebruary 2003. Over one weekend, thieves get past ten layers of security in the Antwerp Diamond Centre and empty most of the safe deposit boxes. The loot: more than $100 million. The clue that caught them: a half-eaten sandwich in a forest.3 stages · 45 min
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  UnsolvedD. B. Cooper: the man who jumpedNovember 1971. A man in a suit hijacks a passenger jet with a briefcase he says is a bomb, collects $200,000 and four parachutes, and jumps out over the forests of Washington State at night. He was never seen again.4 stages · 1 h 10 min