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Four landmark heists spanning an armed train robbery, a museum deception, a high-security diamond-vault breach, and an industrial-scale tunnel burglary.
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Jul 26, 2026 · The Times and The Sunday Times
The Times' Stories of Our Times podcast examined investigator Alex Baber's claim that an AI-assisted reading of the short Z13 cipher points to Marvin Margolis, using the alias Marvin Merrill, and may connect the Zodiac and Black Dahlia cases.
Jul 3, 2026 · Doe Network
Doe Network featured the unidentified young woman found near Calistoga Road in 1979, recirculating her physical description, dental availability, distinctive contact-lens case, and Sonoma County contact information in an effort to generate identification leads.
Jul 1, 2026 · People
People reported that the filmmakers behind Deconstructing Dahlia believe a concealed room and evidence of an old bloodshed event at a Los Angeles motel identify where Elizabeth Short was killed and point to a suspect.
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In August 2005, a large crew tunneled into the Central Bank's Fortaleza vault and removed exactly R$164,755,150 in circulated banknotes.
Over the weekend of February 15–16, 2003, an Italian burglary crew breached the Antwerp Diamond Center’s underground vault and removed valuables reported at more than $100 million.
The 1990 theft of 13 works from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains the world’s largest-value unsolved property crime.
The 1963 armed robbery of a Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train at Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, netted about £2.6 million and prompted one of Britain’s largest manhunts.
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