Heist Podcast

Today we tell the tale of Wille Sutton, a bad boy criminal folk hero from the early 1900s. He was known for the crazy amount of bank robberies he pulled off and the fact that he executing them with very little violence (for the time.)

In 1976 Ray Bennet and his gang robbed the bookies at the Victoria Club in Melbourne. It ended up being the biggest robbery in Australian history. This is an amazing story chalk full of incredible characters. Check it out! HEEEEIST!

Today we tell the story of Gerald Blanchard, an incredible criminal that used his vast technical skills to pull off a series of heists as well as run an international crime ring. At one point he parachuted onto the roof of an Austrian palace to steal a priceless peice of jewelery known as the Sisi Star.

Here is the story about the infamous 1995 Commerzbank Heist in Berlin. It is a crazy wild ride and we don't want to spoil anything. We've been trying to tell this story for awhile but could never find any solid English articles on it, that is until our amazing researching Peter helped us out. Check it out now!! HEEEEEIIIISSST! RRRRRUUUUAAADDD!! that's "heist" in German.

Today we cover the story of Carl Gugasian a prolific bank robber who's genius robbery techniques allowed him to pull off over 50 bank jobs before he was caught. Not only was he super into the ninja arts he also used a trick that was right out of the movies, for real this time, the dirt bike / van switcheroo from Beyond the Pines. It's a great story, shout out to Peter Mills for his amazing research on this one. HEEEISSST.

Today we cover a heist from our hometown of Hamilton, Ontario. It features one of Canada's best jail breakouts ever. Foxy Freddie as he was known in jail, stole 150K from CIBC in the 1980s and he would have gotten away with it too, if wasn't for one pesky political cartoonist named Blaine.

We got Heist Nation to send us fake heist movie titles for a little game we had in mind. Simon and I each pick one at random and pitch a movie based on that title on the spot.

Simon and I have a lot of time on our hands and figured we'd stave off cabin fever by making some mini episodes. Lets us know what you think.

And send in more movie titles.

We go way back to cowboy times to cover the story of Burt Alvord. A heavy drink'n, fight start'n, brothel attend'n bad boy from the wild wild west. Burt took many jobs as a Deputy despite the fact he was the biggest criminal in the towns he was supposed to protect. Many times he lead a posse to train robbers -- plot twist he was the robber. But don't be fooled, he was no mastermind he was in fact a real dumb dumb and that's by cowboy standards

We invited our good friend Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things) to join us on this very special, quarantined episode of Heist Podcast. We discuss the biggest heist in New York history at the time (1930s.) It's an amazing story with some of the best planning and crew we've ever covered. The heist was pulled off perfectly, but what happens moments after changes everything. This episode has everything even a $700 crab leg heist.

HEEEIST!

Today we are telling the story of the Bonnot Gang that were the first "Heist Crew" in the early 1990's to use a getaway car. Back then the police only had bicycles which made for a very unbalanced chase, especially because the Bonney Gang also shot out the back of the getaway car with automatic weapons. These were some bad dudes, and this is definitely not a murder free episode.