Heist Club

It's nearly 6 AM on Christmas Day in London in 1950. A young man runs into the famed Westminster Abbey, looking a bit frantic and disheveled. He drops to his hands and knees feeling around for something in the darkness. Miraculously, he accidentally kicks the small object, his car keys. He sprints out of the abbey and returns just minutes later. He grabs the ends of a cloth wrapped around a large object and drags it across the chap...

On Monday, January 30, 2017, just after 9 PM, a blue hatchback rolls up to a London warehouse. Two men slip out. They carry almost nothing — just rope, some sharp tools, and nerves of steel. They slice through the fence. There's a 40-foot wall and no ladder. They climb a drainpipe. On the roof, they expertly slice the skylight, and rappel down into the dark. All that await them are crates and silence. And $3.5 million worth of cent...

It's October 29,1964 and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is closed for the night. In the darkness of night, the city lights stream through the window, gently illuminating exhibits, including… The JP Morgan Hall of Gems and Minerals. Then, a foot pokes through an open window. Two men slide down a rope and tiptoe through the room. They cut into the glass casings protecting the ...

In the dead of night in a little Minnesota town, a car parks in front of a small house, a relic of the early 20th century. A shadowy figure, armed with a sledgehammer, charges the house, smashing the glass door. Less than a minute later, he emerges, carrying a secret package which occasionally glitters under the moonlight. The car speeds off with a job well done. The following morning, a horrified woman scrambles into the house to ...

It's Easter Weekend in London's dazzling jewelry quarter. Merchants close their shops for the Holiday and the streets are empty. Except for one…After midnight, a lone security guard approaches the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company. He's responding to a text from the damage alarm. He checks the front door. Locked. Nothing out of the ordinary, so he goes about his merry way. But just beneath the surface, a massive hydraulic drill sl...

On a Sunday evening in Paris, France, reality TV star Kim Kardashian prepares for a quiet night in at her hotel, while her sister Kourtney is out dancing. At around 3 a.m., she hears her door open. She calls out, assuming her sister has returned. Instead, she's met with gun-toting men, who are holding the hotel's concierge hostage. Kim is next. After several minutes filled with language barriers and terror, the men dep...

On a July afternoon in Los Angeles, an employee walks the floor of The Mystic Museum, an iconic spot for horror fans. He walks the floor, greets customers and takes photos for them. He patrols the front of house, near one of the most popular items in the museum. A statue of The Crypt Keeper from HBO's Tales from the Crypt. A little kid tries grabbing the 2 foot statue, but the employee stops him. Crisis averted, he heads to the bac...

On the morning of Sunday, October 19, 2025, literally days ago, eight pieces of the French crown jewels, worth approximately $102 million (€88 million), were stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris. And this wasn't done under the cover of night; it happened just thirty minutes after the museum opened. On this special bonus episode of Heist Club, Todd and Jesse lay out what we know so far, their reactions to what was stolen, and any ...

On a cool, spring night in London, the centuries-old Christ Church Picture Gallery sits in total and eerie quiet. No guards, just moonlight gleaming over the masterpieces. But then… A skylight shatters… A ladder drops in. Multiple figures descend into the darkness, and within minutes, they pluck 3 paintings from their frames like they have done this one hundred times before. They ascend the ladder with their new souvenirs and vanis...

On the sweltering afternoon of August 22, 1972, three sharply dressed men entered a Chase Manhattan Bank branch in Brooklyn. They hand the teller a note plagiarized from the movie they watched earlier that day, and reveal their shotguns. What unfolds is an insane 14 hour standoff that captures the attention of all New York City. No this isn't a recap of the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon, it's the real life story of John ...

It's early morning in Stockholm, Sweden. The overnight crew at the G4S money depot works at full speed. With just two days until payday, the cash depot is nearly bursting at the seams with $150 million. Between the hustle and bustle, a bang rings out. Then another, and another. Then…CRASH. Three men armed with guns and explosives suddenly rain down from the ceiling, the beats of a helicopter's blades resonating through...

It's the first day of the festival of the holidays in Walt Disney World's EPCOT Park. The food demonstration space is packed with guests all enjoying the festivities, when a project coordinator walks to the back of the room and through an inconspicuous door. He makes his way through a place frozen in time. He wanders further back to a theater, where a loveable animatronic would greet him. But in its place is mangled wires and an oc...

Inside the Louvre in Paris, it was a sweltering summer day and an overweight guard had eaten too much cassoulet at lunch. He was lethargic, drooping. When he left that evening, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Mona Lisa was hanging on the wall. When the museum opened back up two days later, all that remained "were four iron hooks and a rectangular shape several shades deeper than the surrounding area." The world's most famous pa...

In the early hours of Saturday, September 13, 1997 a group of men adorned in ski masks and firearms accessed the Dunbar Armored Inc. depot. They had studied its floor plans, wore matching headsets, and most importantly, held a key to the whole place. They were about to pull off what was one of the most lucrative armed robberies in American history, running away with $18.9 million…and they almost got away with it, if it hadn't been ...