Heist Podcast

In 1986 a mysterious heist crew tunneled into the First Interstate Bank in Hollywood, California. They got away with millions of dollars and sped down the Los Angeles underground flood tunnels on ATVs. This is a heist we've been trying to cover for a year now, it's possibly one of the coolest heist stories we've ever come across. A full Hollywood level heist, and not just because it happened in Ho...

In 1925 Victor Lustig sold the Eiffel tower to an up-and-coming scrap metal dealer. One thing though, the Eiffel tower wasn't for sale and the whole thing was a big ol' scam. This also wasn't Lustig's only scheme either, he also sold a machine that printed $1000 bills. Check it out. Also in Heist News -- keep an eye out for hot tubs on the black market.  HEEEIST! 

Today we tell the tale of Edward James "Jockey" Smith a ruthless and totally insane criminal from Australia. While Jockey wasn't exactly Danny Ocean, he made up for it by being a full rage machine criminal maniac, who would shoot at anyone that got in his way. Why was he so mad? Well it might have something to do with being a short guy. But through a mentor in jail Jockey learned how to focus that...

Scott Scurlock aka the Hollywood Bandit, was passionate about a lot of things. Primarily, robbing banks, cranking meth, building cool tree forts and most importantly blasting through copious amounts of cash. Hear all about Scurlock and his hippy crew "The Tribe's" many exploits including pulling off some serious stick'em ups that got them that sweet coveted vault money. 

This isn't the Great Train Robbery, the is the Great Gold Train robbery that took place almost 100 years before. Picture a full on bank heist, but on a moving train! In 1850, four men pulled off the biggest train robbery in history when they stole millions of dollars of gold from the South East Railway train on its way from London to Dover. Also Heist news and all the rest. HEEEIIISST

Jeffrey Manchester pulled off over 60 McDonald's Heists. But that's just the beginning of the story. This dude not only broke out of a max security prison he also built a secret fort inside Toys 'R' Us and lived out all our childhood dreams, playing with rc cars at night and living off candy and baby food for months. HEIIIIST!

Burning garbage truck diversions, smashing concrete walls with front loaders, and a crazy mastermind that put together one of the biggest heist crews we've ever covered. This is the story of Denmark's biggest heist and it's totally insane. It's one of those rare occasions we can truly claim, it reads just like a Hollywood screenplay. Heist!

In 2008, career criminal Sean Murphy was pissed after his New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI. So what did he do to get revenge? Well he stole 14 of their Super Bowl rings. He might have gotten away with it too, if he didn't give one of those rings to his 19 year old girlfriend. HEIST!

Robin Ramirez, wasn't your average coupon-cutting suburban housewife.  Through her website savvyshoppersite.com Robin sold exact copies of high value coupons and with the profits amassed a collection of sports cars, speed boats, guns and RVs, and stored them all inside of a massive airplane hanger (just like GTA5.) Found out how she did it on this very funny episode. HEEEIST!

During the 1970s Douglas Groat worked at the super secret heist department of the CIA called "The Shop." That's right, the CIA has a special elite team of heisters whose primary goal is to break into foreign embassies to steal secret documents and code books. Douglas Groat was one of their best, until he decided to stand up against the way the division operated. It didn't turn out so well so him....

We jump right back in to our special on the criminal enterprises of North Korea. Last episode it was about super bills, this episode is all about hacking. HACK THE PLANET. So log in to AOL and crank up your 28.8k modems because it's a real wild ride. Also it's kind of scary because North Korea is really getting good at the 1's and 0's. And spoiler alert, the recent pandemic has opened up a really...

Room #39, North Korea, what is it? On this episode we deep dive into the criminal enterprises of the North Korean government. And the deeper we got, the craziest things got.  As far as international organized crime goes, North Korea makes the Pink Panthers look like a crew of teenage shoplifters. Check out Part One of this crazy tale now. HEEEIIISST!

Today we picking up where we left off. Part two of the wild tale of Australia's infamous bank robber The Postcard Bandit. This time we pick up after The Postcard Bandit's jail-break from Fremantle prison and follow him on one of the most prolific robbery sprees we may ever covered, as well as a second jail-break that makes the first look like sneaking out of your parents house to go to a party. HE...

Today we tell the story of Australia's infamous bank robber The Postcard Bandit. This is a story we've wanted to tell for a long time. Brenden James Abbott stole millions, as well as pulled off a serious jail break out. Why was he called The Postcard Bandit? Well, you'll have to listen to find out.  HEEEEISSST!

The press love to throw around the term "Mission Impossible style heist", but this is the rare situation that the title suits the crime. In this episode of Heist we tell the story of Steven "Jay" Krueger an electronics burglar that took retail theft to level a thousand. We're talking legit laser beam dodging and ceiling dangling heists.

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 researc...

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...

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...

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.