Heist Podcast

Stan Rifkin was a computer consultant in California that in 1978 pulled off one of the biggest wire frauds in US history…at the time. This heist has some of the best aftermath we've ever covered. Also it turns out Stan was neighbors with Matt's uncle and he had no idea! What a small heist world we live in. HEEEIST  

Today we cover the incredible story of the Dinner Set Gang. A two man crew that pulled off over 80 jewelry heists during the 1970's. It's said they were responsible for stealing up to, gets this..940 million dollars of loot. That is insane-o! It's a great story about two best buds doing crime. HEEEEISSST!

Jimmy Hope was part of some of the biggest heists in post civil war America. We've covered some of these crazy heists before but now we get to see them from another perspective. Hope everyone is safe and healthy. Hang in there. Heist Nation.

Save on labor costs by getting a bunch of prisoners to build your new fancy pants bank? What could go wrong? Find out on this episode of Heist where we cover Australia's first ever bank heist. Possibly its biggest. Come for the heist but stick about for the mini history lesson about early colonial Australia and what it was like to be a prisoner sent there from England. Spoiler alert, not very fun....

In WWII, a division of the british army known as "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" put together a secret mission to blow up a secret nazi nuclear program. It has all the crazy aspects of a great heist, but instead of stealing money this crew was giving explosives.

The Mona Lisa only truly became famous after it was stolen from the Louvre back in 1911. During the manhunt the painting was plastered on the front page of every newspaper around the world. That exposure created it status as the most famous painting in the world. The heist itself it a great one. There is even some mystery about the crime that still exist today. Check it out HEEEIST

Today we cover the tale of Phillip Johnson, a Wells Fargo security guard who got tired of being paid 7 bucks an hour so he took what he thought he deserved. 18.8 million dollars. Heeeist. 

Today we cover the famous Lufthansa heist which was featured in one of the best movies of all time Good Fellas. We deep dive into this crazy robbery that some people say was the biggest heist on American soil --We disagree. Classic us. It's an action packed heist and possibly the most murderery episode we have ever done. So if you're into that sort of thing... get at it! HEEEEIIISSST!  

Marm, AKA Queen of Fences ran the New York City underground in the late 1800s, and in this episode we dive in to the juicy heists and crimes she organized. It's choke-full of awesome tales. From a school for criminal children to some of the biggest heists in history. This one is not to be missed. 

We are super excited to be telling the story of the biggest bad*ss ever...Marm Mandelbaum. AKA The Queen of Fences. Marm ran a criminal enterprise during the late 1800's in New York City. She had the police and politicians in her pocket, her parties were the thing of legend and she financed some of the biggest heists in history. All in a time when women couldn't even vote. 

For our 100th episode we thought we'd spend some time looking back over the last two years, dive into the Heist Nation mailbag, give some shouts out, and cover some listener heist. 

The west end gang, a crazy crew that pulled off the biggest stick em' up in history, we're talking about a sixty eight million dollar mugging. Mingo Bango! Check it out. HEEEIST!

Monica Proietti aka Machine Gun Molly grew up in Montreal surrounded by crime, her sweet ol' grandma started a school for criminal children and not to reform them, to teach them how to be better criminals! She also had a thing for "bad boys" because both her husbands were bank robbers.  But why was she called Machine Gun Molly? And how did she get away with robbing over 20 banks in under two years...

Today we cover the crazy story of a crew of jewel thieves that stole between 10-15 million dollars of loot, state hoping in a tiny airplane. Also at one point they even produced 1995's indie horror film "Creep" which one reviewer online said - "It should be a crime to make movies this bad" 

We had writer Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Last Man on Earth) swing by Heist HQ to talk about another amazing Brinks Depot robbery. 

Happy Holidays! We wanted to something fun and special for this holiday season so we decided to cover the famous 1920s Santa Claus Robbery. It a crazy, jolly, super violent episode. Ho Ho Ho Merry Heistmas.

Rick and Morty recently released an episode all about heists. It was amazing and we knew we had to cover it on the pod. Writer Ed Voccola (Rick and Morty, Last Man on Earth) joins us in the studio for this very fun mini episode where we talk all about the inspiration for the episode and all the fun bits along the way. It's a great time. Also stay tuned for Ed Voccola's full episode about another g...

In 2013 a rash of ATM attacks started popping up in England. It was a technique using explosive gas that the authorities had never seen in the UK. Listen along as we dive into the characters that brought this crime to british soil and learn about some fun liverpool slang along the way. www.heistpodcast.com

For almost a century the Sacramento Kings have struggled to stay in one place and be financially viable. Then Jeff David showed up and helped the team make millions in sponsorships and marketing...while robbing them of millions of dollars. In this episode we cover the story of Jeff David and how he almost got away with millions of dollars had it not been for an incredible investigation from an HR...

On this very special episode of Heist Podcast we invite actress and model Kelleth Cuthbert to discuss the Pierre Hotel Heist.  January 2nd 1972. The Pierre Hotel which looks over Central Park in Manhattan was the scene of the biggest hotel heist in history. Over three million dollars was stolen from the safety deposit boxes of the richest of the rich of New York high society. Organized crime, Soph...

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. w...

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...

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.