Value of gold stolen today – $322million Recovered – just $2600 The 1855 Gold Robbery On the night of 15 May 1855, three boxes containing gold belonging to Abell and Co., Spielmann, and Bult were delivered by a firm of…
In 2003 Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, received a call to deliver a pizza to an address which later proved to be fake. When he arrived at the location, two men forced him at gunpoint to put on a…
Over 1,500 pounds of metal was stolen, including over 700 pounds of gold. This was meant to be sent to Zurich and New York. A group of armed robbers stole a haul of gold bullion worth at least…
The Summer Bliss Robbery (2012) – 216 kg Gold Bars November 30, 2012, masked men in “Police” jackets boarded the the “Summer Bliss” fishing boat in Curacao and stole 70 gold bars weighing a total of 216kg with an estimated…
Croydon Airport Gold Robbery (1935) – 20 kg of Gold Bars & Coins The “Croydon Aerodrome Gold Robbery”, also known as “The Imperial Airways Gold Heist” was the theft of just over 20kg of gold bullion, made up of gold…
The Chelambra bank robbery in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India is considered to be one of the biggest and most sensational bank robberies in the crime history of Kerala. In the early hours of 30 December 2007, the robbers…
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict crossed the streets of Sweden’s capital city and entered a bustling bank, the Sveriges Kreditbanken, on Stockholm’s upscale Norrmalmstorg square. From underneath the folded jacket he carried in his arms,…
The most incredible robbery of all time took place in Baghdad the day before the US began bombing the city prior to the invasion of 2003. Saddam Hussein was determined to rescue as much as he could for himself and…
London Millennium Dome, 2000 Using a JCB digger to ram down fences, four robbers attempted to steal De Beers diamonds worth over £350m, including the 203 carat De Beers Millennium Star, from a display at the Millenium Dome on 7…
The Plymouth Mail robbery, or what the press called “The Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery” was, at that point in time, the largest cash robbery of all time In August 1962, a team of criminals dressed as police officers and…
It was one of the most spectacular crimes of the past years. In March 2017, the gold coin “Big Maple Leaf” from the Berlin Bode Museum was stolen. 100 kilos, worth 3.5 million euros. Early on the morning of March…
It was Ted Conrad’s 20th birthday and he was going to do it up right.He came back from his lunch break with a brown paper sack that contained a bottle of whiskey and a carton of cigarettes. He told anyone…
