Heist Podcast

Just yesterday (Nov 25th) a heist crew broke into The Green Vault in Dresden, Germany, the second oldest museum in the world, and stole a collection of royal Jewellery from the 18th century valued as high as one billion dollars! Its a crazy story that just happened and we knew we had to cover it right away. We heard all you emails and messages and we here to cover this thing Heist Podcast style.

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This is not your everyday bitcoin heist. Instead of hacking the Gibson and stealing encrypted bitcoin wallets, two Icelandic bad boys named Thor and Haffie the Pink, took an old school approach. In fact they didn't actually steal any bitcoins, they stole the mining machines that produced them. Steal a bitcoin you eat for a day, steal a bitcoin mining machine you eat for life.

We thought we'd mix it up this episode and cover some unsolved heists. Two crazy stories, all about gold. A mysterious fishing boat that for some reason had 125kg of gold in its cargo. And the master safecracker that broke into the vault of Australia's rich man Kerry Packer.

Many have fantasized about it…Idly wondered while standing in line…What does it take to rob a bank? And what drives someone to actually do it? And once you've robbed one…how can you stop? What is the criminal life really like? And what happens next—when you wake up in prison and realize your violent greed only served to betray you.

Introducing The Score: Bank Robber Diaries from Acast Studios and Western Sound. The story of Joe Loya who robbed 50 banks. Follow his life's arc from an abused kid, to petty criminal, to con, ex-con, writer, father and finally, reconciled son. The Score is the first true crime series told from the criminal's point of view.

Can't wait to hear what happens next with Joe. Subscribe to The Score: Bank Robber Diaries now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Today we are telling the story of Frank Bourassa. A man from Quebec who printed hundreds of millions of dollars of American twenty dollar bills and sold them on the black market. He was a man with a certain moral code, until one day he broke it. A great story with a great character check it out only on HEEEEIST podcast.

Robert St. John always wanted to be famous, but after moving from D.C. to LA he struggled to become an actor and stand up comedian. That's when he entered a decade long journey of dealing drugs, pimping and robbing banks with his crew of prostitutes.

During the 1980s The Pennsylvania Lottery was one of the most popular state lotteries in the country, the live pick show which routinely had over a million viewers, was hosted by a man named Nick Perry. Even though Mr. Perry lived a nice cushy life as a local celebrity, he decided he wanted more. And maybe the lottery numbers he drew each week could help him out with that.

George Wellford and Willie Richard Short were just two best buds working at a Mitsubishi plant in Mobile, Alabama. When their 401K's got toasted after the 2008 banking crisis they devised a plan to get back what had been stolen from them. Over the course of five years they slowly snuck out 43 tonnes of high grade silicon in their lunchboxes. How does one sell silicon on the black market? And how did they get away with it for half a decade. Tune in and find out only on HEIST PODCAST.

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Yeah it's a real wild episode. We cover a crazy Russian dude named Kamo, that pulled off a old timey cash in transit heist that helped fiance Stalin to overthrow the Russian government. It's a real gruesome one, so beware.

We had some slight technical difficulties this week and the episode we recorded was lost due to a faulty SD card. But we didn't want to just post nothing, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to re-post one of our favorite heists we've cover, the story of a gentlemen thief by the name of Vincenzo Pipino.

WE WILL BE BACK WITH A BRAND NEW EPISODE NEXT WEEK.

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