Dog Day Afternoon - [#77]

08/06/19 • 42 min

On August 22nd 1972 John Wojtowicz AKA lil’ John Baso robbed The Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn. Why? To pay for his wife’s sex change. You have probably heard about the movie Dog Day Afternoon but trust us there is a whole lot about this story that is not in the film. It’s a real wild ride so buckle up. And in Heist news a $10 million dollar Amazon crime ring is busted, these weren’t your everyday porch pirates matey, yar.

It's true crime without the murder...HEIST!!!

It's true crime without the murder...HEIST!!!

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Billion Dollar Bangladesh Bank Hack Heist - [#76]

The Central Bank of Bangladesh keeps billions of dollars at The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in 2016 hackers attempted to move one of those billions to accounts in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. They didn’t get all of it but they did get a nice chunk and what did they do with that chunk? The went to the casino baby!! It’s old school meets new school on this very layered and crazy episode. Also hot off the presses in Heist News a thirty million dollar heist in Brazil.

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The Affair of the Diamond Necklace [#78]

France, 1772 Louis the 15th commissions the finest diamond necklace the world has ever seen. Before it's finished Louis dies and the jewelers are now stuck with a 14 million dollars necklace that no one can afford. That is until a certain scheming confidence woman hears about it and convinces a real dumb dumb to buy it in order to win over Marie Antoinette. France was a weird lace back then. It's a crazy story. All that and more on Heist Podcast.

True Crime without the murder.

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