Daring Capers

An Italian playboy committed the world's largest armed robbery, making off with over $65 million from a safe deposit center London, and triggering a world-class game of cat-and-mouse. The only clue to the thief's identity was a single fingerprint!

Police officers and criminals inhabit the same dark world of scams and schemes. But what happens when the line blurs between the cops... and the robbers?

A look at a bank robbery in Germany in which thieves disappeared with $3.5 million in German marks by tunneling out of the building.

Bank robbers who used a stopwatch to time their heists in Canada and the U.S

An art-theft conspiracy in England that hit at least 27 institutions and got away with over $3 million in antiquities.

Examining the robbery of the Brink's armored-car service in Boston on Jan. 17, 1950, in which seven armed men took $1.5 million in cash in a 20-minute heist.

Examining the theft of the Crown Jewels of Hesse (which included nine diamond-studded tiaras) from Kronberg Castle in Germany.

Profiling a con woman who robbed jewelry stores for 40 years before being caught in Massachusetts.

A plot to stage a jewel robbery and collect insurance money results in the arrests of two men.

Examining a tunnel dug beneath the Berlin Wall in the mid 1960s that allowed 57 men, women and children to flee East Germany.