The Great Whiskey Heist
How a distillery worker in Kentucky stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bourbon, one barrel at a time.
How a distillery worker in Kentucky stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bourbon, one barrel at a time.
Reeves Wiedeman Men's Journal Mar 2016 15min Permalink
They were the New York crew that once pulled off the Lufthansa heist, one of the biggest thefts in American history and the basis for Goodfellas. Nearly 40 years later, most are dead. The survivors are old, broke, and snitching.
Stephanie Clifford New York Times Nov 2015 Permalink
The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.
Konstantin von Hammerstein Der Spiegel May 2015 20min Permalink
On the trail of a group of thieves stealing the fanciest wine out of San Francisco’s fanciest restaurants.
Claire Suddath Bloomberg Business May 2015 15min Permalink
The case of the disappearing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon.
Thomas Lake Washington Post May 2015 Permalink
How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.
Jeff Maysh BBC Apr 2015 25min Permalink
“In essence, Pez ordered his economic assassination,” said a fellow Pez dealer.
Jeff Maysh Playboy Mar 2015 20min Permalink
He was a fixture in the kitchen of one of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurants, with plans to move to New York City to further his career. Then he robbed a bank.
Allecia Vermillion Seattle Met Mar 2015 20min Permalink
They were an ordinary pair of small-time criminals in the UK. Then they figured out how to blow up an ATM.
Nick Summers Bloomberg Business Jan 2015 Permalink
Fifty years later, the men who stole priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History recall the crime.
Meryl Gordon Vanity Fair Oct 2014 30min Permalink
The thin moral line between collecting and stealing plants.
Sam Knight Guardian Oct 2014 25min Permalink
Magicians, mafiosos, a missing painting and the heist of a lifetime.
Joshua Davis, David Wolman Epic Oct 2014 35min Permalink
The bungled theft of a $6 million violin.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Nov 2014 20min Permalink
He’s spent decades dodging the law. He’s escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He’s given millions to the poor. The story of how Vassilis Paleokostas, Greece’s most wanted man, became a folk hero.
Jeff Maysh BBC Sep 2014 Permalink
Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly May 2014 20min Permalink
Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.
Charles Homans The Atavist Magazine Mar 2014 1h15min Permalink
Jeffrey Holliman was deep in debt and out of options. So he took to the woods outside his small East Texas town. Then he started taking from his neighbors.
Patrick Michels Texas Observer Feb 2014 25min Permalink
Unraveling a lucrative crime ring.
Adam Higginbotham Businessweek Jan 2014 15min Permalink
On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.
Ed Caesar New York Times Magazine Nov 2013 20min Permalink
How architecture has made Los Angeles a bank robber’s paradise.
Geoff Manaugh Cabinet May 2013 10min Permalink
Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.
Lex Boon NRC Handelsblad Oct 2013 Permalink
Roy Petersen was blind in one eye, had two replaced hips, and was twice divorced. His job was to solve a gold mine robbery case in the Peruvian Andes. He would need some help.
Joshua Davis Epic Aug 2013 Permalink
From a Tokyo smash-and-grab to driving a car through the window of a Dubai jewelry shop, how a ragtag band of Balkan thieves set a new bar for audacious heists.
A member of the Pink Panthers, Milan Poparic, escaped from prison yesterday.
David Samuels New Yorker Apr 2010 1h5min Permalink
Best Article Crime Science World
The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.
Julian Rubinstein New Yorker Jul 2013 30min Permalink
An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.
Scott Johnson Buzzfeed May 2013 35min Permalink