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Banco Central Burglary
NewPublished Sep 21, 2026

Banco Central Burglary

In August 2005, a large crew tunneled into the Central Bank's Fortaleza vault and removed exactly R$164,755,150 in circulated banknotes.

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Antwerp Diamond Heist
NewPublished Sep 21, 2026

Antwerp Diamond Heist

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.

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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
NewPublished Sep 21, 2026

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

The 1990 theft of 13 works from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains the world’s largest-value unsolved property crime.

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Great Train Robbery
NewPublished Sep 17, 2026

Great Train Robbery

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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Hinterkaifeck Murders
NewPublished Aug 17, 2026

Hinterkaifeck Murders

The 1922 murders of six residents at the remote Hinterkaifeck farmstead near Gröbern, Bavaria, remain one of Germany's most debated unsolved family homicides and a haunting rural cold case.

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Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
NewPublished Aug 17, 2026

Murder of JonBenét Ramsey

The still-unsolved 1996 murder of six-year-old beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey in her Boulder, Colorado, home, a case that ignited enduring media scrutiny and investigative controversy.

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Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders
NewPublished Jul 26, 2026

Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders

An unsolved Northern California serial-killer case involving young female hitchhikers whose bodies were found around Santa Rosa and Sonoma County between 1972 and 1973.

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Trailside Killer
NewPublished Jul 25, 2026

Trailside Killer

A Northern California serial-killer case centered on David Carpenter, whose attacks on hikers and trail users spanned Mount Tamalpais, Point Reyes, Santa Cruz County, and San Francisco between 1979 and 1981.

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