Heist Podcast

NYE 1987 Sydney Australia, the country is celebrating their bicentennial meanwhile at an Australian National Bank in Chinatown a crew are having a different kind of party, a heist party. It's a story straight out of the movies that still to this day is unsolved. And in the news, underwater beer heist and Matt's uncle's crazy wine. Check it out. HEEEEIIISSSTTT!

Today we tell the story of Atilla Ambrus aka The Whiskey Robber. A Hungarian born in communist Romania. Atilla turned to robbing post offices to make a better life for himself after the iron curtain fell. Oh yeah, he was also a professional hockey goalie / team janitor and once got fired for crashing the zamboni. And in heist new MATT GETS HEISTED!

Today we tell the amazing story of The Boyd Gang, a crew of Canadian heisters that really caused a rukus in Ontario in the 40s and 50s. While the gang was named after Edwin Boyd he wasn't the mastermind, just the most handsome guy on the crew.

On this very special episode of Heist Podcast we invite poders from another foder, Caitlyn and Sue of Scam Wow Podcast to discuss the mysterious heist story of Theodore Conrad. A man who walked out of the bank that he worked at with 215K in a big brown paper bag and then vanished never to be seen again. It's short, sweet and a great story to discuss with our awesome guests. We were also on their show, if you'd like to check it out scamwowpodcast.com

College student Stephen Jackley made it his mission to take from the rich and give to the poor. So he decided to rob banks in order to fund he's new NGO "The Organisation." It turned out raising 100K wasn't as easy he thought.

During the 70s Eddie Dodson AKA the Yankee Bandit ran a hip antique shop in Hollywood. He partied with many of the biggest stars at the time and at those parties he did a lot of cocaine, which was the style at the time. After getting super addicted to cocaine, then heroin, then cocaine and heroin at the same time Eddie wasn't making enough money at his shop to afford his habit, so what did he do? Well he robbed a bunch of banks of course, like...a lot of banks. HEEEIIISSST!

During the 1970s and 80s the Medford Mass. police department was CRAZY corrupt. So bad in fact that the cops were pulling off even worse crimes that the criminals were. And that brings us to our story today about three active police officers (One was a captain) that pulled off a full bank heist and made off with over $10 million. This is a classic "How is this not a Hollywood blockbuster movie yet"." Check it out HEEEIIISSST!

Today we tell the insane life of Marius Jacob. A ship hand at 11 and a by mistake pirate at 13. Marius was the hardest teenager possibly in history. After that Marius started a crime gang / anarchist group called "The Night Workers" who pulled off heists, robbing from Europe's Aristocracy. Teen pirate has gotten be a movie. Heeeeiiistt.

Today we are telling the story of James Hogue a life long con-man that decided the best way to become America's top running champ was to steal a dead kids identity, pose as a 16 year old and go back to high school at the ripe old age of 26. Then to do it all over again at 31 by lying his way into Princeton. Also he pulled off a gem heist at Harvard just for funsies. HEEEIST

Johnny and Carolyn Williams lived a quiet life in San Luis Obispo, they liked nice meals, wine, cigars and....robbing banks! Check out this modern and way less violent Bonnie and Clyde tale of two lovers that worked together to steal more than 850K from banks all across America using a method we just learned about called a "Take Over Robbery" HHHEEIIST!

It's finally here, the episodes we love the most. When we get to sit back and let our listeners tell their own heist stories. Settle in and get cozy as we share some of the best listener submitted heists sent in from Heist Nation. It's a lot of wacky pranks, and hijinks: A great gas station scheme, the tale of the PJ Bandit and many more...On our 4th listener extravaganza. HEEEEIIISST

Today we tell the story of Bill Miner, a serial criminal who was prolific in robbing, getting caught for robbing and having anyone he robbed with getting a shotgun blast to the face. Bill Miner became a folk hero in Western Canada despite the fact he was a terrible criminal and spent most of his behind bars.

On this very special episode of Heist we welcome great buddy Shane Cunningham (This Family Tree & Mike on Much, Podcasts) Shane tells us yet another crazy heist he's pulled off and we dive into the Tansy U. book heist made famous in the 2018 film American Animals when a bunch of college kids tried to steal over $15 million in rare books from the special collection library at T.U. HEEEIST. Go roosters!

During the 1980s, Crazy Eddie's was the biggest electronics chain in the Tri-State area with 49 stores and 300 million in annual sales. But guess what? It was all just a massive scam to rob Wall Street.

Today we cover the ridiculous story of the time two guys decided it would be a good idea to steal the Crown Jewels of King Karl. Well guess what? It wasn't HEEEEIIISSST!

Welcome back to our North Hollywood Shootout two parter. In this episode we jump right in to the action. The day of the heist, when Emil and Phillips (cranked up on muscle relaxers) entered the Bank of America branch 384 on laurel Canyon blvd. What happens next is pure chaos. Check out it out Heeeist.!

You asked for it and we delivered. Today we are covering The North Hollywood Shootout, in two parts. While it may go against our motto of "True Crime without the murder" this heist had so many repercussions in the world of heists, and completely changed the way police forces operate that we decided this story is important enough to make an exception. If you've never heard of the North Hollywood Shoot out, it's basically a real life heat. We deep dive into the background of the two wackos that "pulled off" this heist and their stories are just as interesting as the heist itself. HEEEIST

Okay so it wasn't a mandolin it was a violin, but come on we had to go for that pun. Today we cover a man who thought it would be a good idea to steal one of the most valuable and reconizible violins in the world. Stealing it wasn't so hard but selling it on the other end was pretty much impossible.

Michel Ferrari put together the perfect heist, he even out sourced all the criminal work to some nice Corsicans who may or may not have been in the biggest criminal organization in France. Stick around for the aftermath because let's just say, things don't work out so great for Michel Ferrari. HEEEIIISST

In 1992 a crew drilled into the vault of the Gota Bank in Stockholm. Inside they broke into over 600 safety deposit boxes and set off pretty much every alarm the bank had but somehow they still got away with $6.7 million. So many great takeaways from this story. It's a story we've been dying to tell but couldn't seem to find and English articles about it. And that's when our amazing listener Pontus stood up and volunteered to research this bad boy for us. Heist Nation delivers again. HEEEIIISST!

We thought we'd switch it up and cover a pirate heist this week. Turns out Pirates aren't exactly as funny as they seem in cartoons, because the one we're covering in this episode is a down right monster. -- WARNING: If you have kiddos around maybe check out another episode. YAAAARR HEIST!

Today we cover one of the biggest car theft rings in US history. Ring leader Minjiang Yang ran a crew that stole $40 million in luxury cars in NYC and then had them shipped to China for a serious profit (double the ticket price.) Yang ruled his crew with an iron fist, and he was crazy careful with every step of the process...until he wasn't. HEEISST!

Today we tell the story of Jordan Goudreau, a real wild boy who decided to single handedly take over Venezuela to get at those sweet, sweet oil reserves. And guess what, turns out heisting an entire nation ain't that easy. HEEEIST!

Back in the late 1800s four men conned the Bank of England, "The safest bank in the world" at the time, out of ten million dollars. All it took was the charm of a handsome rascal, a skilled forger and mastermind in bank fraud. And they would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for a single piece of blotting paper. HEEEIST!

Arther Welleslley was a british retiree living on a very meager pension. What really got him steamed up was that he had to pay for a TV license. So what did he do? He stole a famous british painting and held it for ransom.

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 Hollywood, the story is full on nuts and is chalk full of sweet heist lessons about alarm systems and vault technology. CHECK IT OUT!

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 rage to eventually become Australia's Public Enemy Number One.

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. HEEEIST!

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 big security hole and some people are worried that Kimmy boy is going to slip into our DM's in a major way. HEEEISSST!

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. HEEEIISSST!

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 research on this one. HEEEISSST.

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 a real dumb dumb and that's by cowboy standards

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 everything even a $700 crab leg heist. HEEEIST!

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.