Heists, Hustles, and Homicide

This week on Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we’re walking into a quiet credit union on the Xerox campus in Webster, New York...where what looked like an official FBI security audit turned into a deadly robbery, a murder, and a mystery that would haunt investigators for more than a decade. On the morning of August 12, 2003, employees at the Xerox Federal Credit Union were confronted by a man dress...

Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Crime Crew. In this Wrap Sheet episode, Steve dives back into one of the most ridiculous, brilliant, and legally bizarre corporate showdowns of the 1990s: Leonard vs. PepsiCo , better known as the infamous Pepsi Harrier Jet lawsuit . This is the story of a Pepsi commercial that most people saw as a joke, a parody, a goofy marketing stunt, and maybe t...

Leonard vs. PepsiCo: Where’s My Harrier Jet? Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Crime Crew. In this episode, we dive into one of the strangest legal battles in advertising history: Leonard v. PepsiCo , better known as the Harrier Jet case . In the mid-1990s, Pepsi launched its bold “Pepsi Stuff” campaign, where customers could collect Pepsi Points and redeem them for branded merchandi...

In Part 2 of our Pan Am Flight 103 story, we move beyond the explosion and into the decades-long search for answers. This episode digs into the investigation, the forensic evidence, the trial of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and the many questions that never fully went away. We look at how a tiny fragment of evidence helped shape the official case, why Libya became the center of the prosecution, and why...

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London bound for New York and never made it across the Atlantic. Less than an hour after takeoff, a bomb hidden inside the plane exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground. In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Steve dives into the horrifying timeline of the Lockerbie bombing, the...

In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Steve breaks down one of the most unbelievable heists in modern history - the Brinks Truck Jewelry Heist , where tens of millions of dollars in diamonds and luxury jewelry were stolen… because security quite literally fell asleep on the job. This wasn’t Ocean’s Eleven. This wasn’t a high-tech operation. This was a perfect storm of lazy...

In July of 2022, a Brinks armored truck left a high-profile international jewelry exhibition in San Mateo, California carrying 73 bags filled with diamonds, luxury watches, gold, emeralds, and rare gemstones . By sunrise the next morning… 24 of those bags were gone. No shootout. No alarms. No dramatic Hollywood getaway. Just a quiet rest stop in Lebec, California…and over $100 million in jewelry d...

For months, the world focused on the wrong man. In Part 1 and Part 2 of our series on the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, we followed the rise and collapse of suspicion around Richard Jewell. But while Jewell endured 88 days under investigation, the real bomber was still free. In Part 3, we follow the trail that law enforcement eventually uncovered...a pattern o...

Three days after the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the man once praised as a hero became the focus of a national investigation. His name was Richard Jewell. In Part 1, we followed the explosion, the discovery of the backpack, and the stunning shift from applause to accusation. In Part 2, the story turns darker. For 88 days, Richard Jewell lived under relentles...

In the summer of 1996, the world gathered in Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Olympics...a celebration of unity, competition, and global pride. And then a bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park. In the first installment of this three-part series, Steve takes you inside the night that changed everything...the music, the crowds, the green backpack beneath a bench…and the security guard who noticed some...

Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide, my little crime crew. This is The Wrap Sheet! In this solo deep dive, Steve unpacks Operation Oxy Alley - the wildly absurd, deeply disturbing Florida pill-mill scandal where addiction became a tourism industry and pain clinics operated like fast-casual restaurants. We’re talking about the George brothers , two Florida men who looked more suited selli...

In the late 2000s, South Florida became ground zero for a quiet catastrophe hiding in plain sight. Strip malls turned into distribution hubs. Doctors became volume machines. And thousands of people across the country died with legal prescriptions in their pockets. In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , host Steve takes you inside Operation Oxy Alley - the federal investigation that exp...

Welcome back to Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , my little crime crew...it’s your favorite host, Steve , and this week’s Wrap Sheet is going fully unhinged. We’re breaking down the FIFA scandal , and not the polite, press-conference version. This is the loud, sarcastic, laugh-through-the-pain deep dive into how soccer’s governing body turned the world’s most popular sport into a global crime syndic...

For decades, FIFA presented itself as the guardian of the world’s game - the final authority on fairness, competition, and global unity through soccer. But behind closed doors, that image quietly collapsed. In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we peel back more than a century of history to expose how FIFA evolved from a modest governing body into one of the most corrupt institutions...

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On August 28, 2003, a pizza delivery driver walked into a Pennsylvania bank with a bomb locked around his neck and a note demanding money. Minutes later, he was dead - killed by an explosive that detonated live on television. But this wasn’t a robbery gone wrong. In this story-mode episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we unravel the disturbing truth behind the Pizza Bomber case - a crime bui...

In this Wrap Sheet episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , we peel back the layers of the Kendra Licari catfishing case - a story that shocked a small town and left lasting damage far beyond the original investigation. What began as a relentless cyberbullying campaign against a teenage girl turned into something far more disturbing when the truth came out: the messages weren’t coming from a cla...

For nearly two years, a Michigan teenager was psychologically tormented by an anonymous texter who seemed to know everything about her - what she wore to school, her insecurities, her relationship, and exactly how to hurt her. The messages came nonstop. Dozens a day. Cruel, humiliating, sexually explicit - and eventually telling her to end her life. Parents begged school administrators for help. P...

In this Wrap Sheet deep dive , we’re reopening one of the most infamous mysteries in American crime history - D.B. Cooper - and putting the legend under a microscope. This isn’t a retelling of the hijacking. This is the post-game breakdown . We dig into how Cooper actually pulled this off , why the Boeing 727’s aft stairs made the crime possible, and whether survival after the jump was brilliant p...

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In this special Wrap Sheet deep dive, Steve takes you inside one of the most haunting disappearances of our time: the vanishing of 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse. With a fresh investigative lens, this episode breaks down overlooked theories, unsettling details, and the unseen angles that never got the attention they deserved. From the troubling environment of her condo complex to the mysterious “facel...

Support the show: Venmo: @HHHpodcast BuyMeACoffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/hhhpodcast Every bit genuinely helps. Thank you for listening, for caring about these cases, and for being part of the HHH community. Vanished in Orlando: The Unfinished Story of Jennifer Kesse On a quiet January morning in 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse walked out of her Orlando condo and disappeared without a trace. He...

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In this episode of Heists, Hustles, and Homicide , Steve takes you deep into the unbelievable true story of Victor Lustig - one of the most creative, charming, and dangerous con men in history. We explore how a short, unassuming man from Hostinné turned himself into a globe-trotting illusionist of identity. From card-table secrets to aristocratic aliases, Lustig mastered human psychology long befo...

If you enjoyed this breakdown, please consider supporting the show. Your donations help me keep the podcast going...from research, to production, to hosting, to all the caffeine that fuels the late-night writing sessions. Every single contribution truly helps this show stay alive and keep growing. I'm listing my Venmo and Buy Me a Coffee links below. Support the Podcast Venmo: @HHHpodcast Buy Me a...