Today we are telling the story of James Hogue a life long con-man that decided the best way to become America's top running champ was to steal a dead kids identity, pose as a 16 year old and go back to high school at the ripe old age of 26. Then to do it all over again at 31 by lying his way into Princeton. Also he pulled off a gem heist at Harvard just for funsies. HEEEIST

Johnny and Carolyn Williams lived a quiet life in San Luis Obispo, they liked nice meals, wine, cigars and....robbing banks! Check out this modern and way less violent Bonnie and Clyde tale of two lovers that worked together to steal more than 850K from banks all across America using a method we just learned about called a "Take Over Robbery" HHHEEIIST!

It's finally here, the episodes we love the most. When we get to sit back and let our listeners tell their own heist stories. Settle in and get cozy as we share some of the best listener submitted heists sent in from Heist Nation. It's a lot of wacky pranks, and hijinks: A great gas station scheme, the tale of the PJ Bandit and many more...On our 4th listener extravaganza.  HEEEEIIISST

Today we tell the story of Bill Miner, a serial criminal who was prolific in robbing, getting caught for robbing and having anyone he robbed with getting a shotgun blast to the face. Bill Miner became a folk hero in Western Canada despite the fact he was a terrible criminal and spent most of his behind bars.

On this very special episode of Heist we welcome great buddy Shane Cunningham (This Family Tree & Mike on Much, Podcasts) Shane tells us yet another crazy heist he's pulled off and we dive into the Tansy U. book heist made famous in the 2018 film American Animals when a bunch of college kids tried to steal over $15 million in rare books from the special collection library at T.U. HEEEIST. Go roosters!

During the 1980s, Crazy Eddie's was the biggest electronics chain in the Tri-State area with 49 stores and 300 million in annual sales. But guess what? It was all just a massive scam to rob Wall Street. 

Today we cover the ridiculous story of the time two guys decided it would be a good idea to steal the Crown Jewels of King Karl. Well guess what? It wasn't HEEEEIIISSST!

Welcome back to our North Hollywood Shootout two parter. In this episode we jump right in to the action. The day of the heist, when Emil and Phillips (cranked up on muscle relaxers) entered the Bank of America branch 384 on laurel Canyon blvd. What happens next is pure chaos. Check out it out Heeeist.!

You asked for it and we delivered. Today we are covering The North Hollywood Shootout, in two parts. While it may go against our motto of “True Crime without the murder” this heist had so many repercussions in the world of heists, and completely changed the way police forces operate that we decided this story is important enough to make an exception. If you’ve never heard of the North Hollywood Shoot out, it’s basically a real life heat. We deep dive into the background of the two wackos that “pulled off” this heist and their stories are just as interesting as the heist itself. HEEEIST

Okay so it wasn't a mandolin it was a violin, but come on we had to go for that pun.

Today we cover a man who thought it would be a good idea to steal one of the most valuable and reconizible violins in the world. Stealing it wasn't so hard but selling it on the other end was pretty much impossible.