Heist Podcast

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