Heist Podcast

Today we are telling the story of Tommy Thompson, an underwater engineer that discovered the SS central America, a ship that went down in a hurricane in 1857 with upwards of 3/4 of a billion dollars in gold on board. After a decade of fighting endless lawsuits Tommy vanished with 2.1 million dollars and 500 gold coins.  

Today we're telling the story of Sophie Lyons, one of the best criminals in 1860s. Sophie Lyons was trained at a young age to slice open rich woman's purses with a razor blade. From there she graduated in to one of New York's most successful and richest criminals. At the time of her death her estate was wroth over 750K (around 30 million today)

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.