Category: Crime Mysteries

Mystery of the missing sodder children

For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia, could see a billboard bearing the grainy images of five children, all dark-haired and solemn-eyed, their names and ages—Maurice, 14; Martha 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; Betty,…
The Real Pink Panther Jewel Thiefs

The Real Pink Panther Gang Heists from Hollywood films Cool escapes Over $500 Million in stolen diamonds     The Real Pink Panthers is the name given by Interpol to an international jewel thief network who are responsible for some…
The Great Belgium Diamond Heist

The great Belgium diamond heist is a robbery straight out of Hollywood. The facts about the raid on a plane at Brussels airport are just astonishing!   The well planned raid took just 3 minutes. Eight professional thieves dressed as…
The Baker Street Burglary

London. September, 1971. Sherlock Holmes’s own street becomes witness to one of the largest bank robberies in UK history, when thieves tunnel into the vault of Lloyds Bank and make off with over £3 million. And here’s the rub: when…
St. Patrick’s Day heist

On the night of St. Patrick’s Day, two police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They were responding to a call, they said, and so, the security guard let them in. Minutes later, both guards on duty that evening…
The mystery of the Aleppo Codex

The oldest and most complete known text of the Hebrew Bible is stored in a secret vault in the Israel Museum.   The security around it is airtight, the privileged eyes to see it, few and far between. Except, there…
Who was Jack The Ripper?

Who was this person police called Jack the Ripper? Where there any suspects in the murders? What made Jack the Ripper such a highly sought after person? What has caused the interest of many detectives throughout the years? Why is…