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Citing rising rates of ordinary people getting victimized by the legal system, which often forces innocent people to pay for damages inflicted by others, a guide to prevention and damage control covers such topics as identity theft, divorce, and random crime.
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All the crimes are true, but names have been altered or eliminated. The former "Saturday Night Live" writer's bestsellers, "America's Dumbest Criminals" and "What's the Number for 911?," are followed by a new work that captures hilarious tales of idiotic criminals. Police arrived on the scene of a recreational vehicle park to discover a very sick man vomiting and complaining of stomach cramps. The man admitted he had attempted to siphon gas from a...
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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
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Over Easter weekend 2015, a motley crew of six English thieves, several in their sixties and seventies, couldn't resist coming out of retirement for one last career-topping heist. Their target: the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit, in the heart of London's medieval diamond district. "The Firm" included Brian Reader, ringleader and legend in his own mind; Terry Perkins, a tough-as-nails career criminal but also a frail diabetic; Danny Jones, a fitness freak,...
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[2010]
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Provides an account of the diamond heist which occurred on February 15, 2003, at the Antwerp Diamond Center in Belgium, discusses how authorities were able to identify the thieves, and attempts to discover how charming professional thief Leonardo Notarbartolo and his colleagues from "The School of Turin" were able to breach the tight security at the building.
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Unsolved case files volume 03
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[2022]
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Two thieves posing as Boston Police officers gain entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Once inside, they steal thirteen pieces of art, including several rare Rembrandts. Eighty-one minutes later, these men walk off with $500 million worth of art. This heist is the single largest private property theft in the United States--and despite decades of investigation and dozens of false leads, the case remains unsolved to this day.
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[2018]
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"Unsolved crimes takes an illuminating look at forty of history's most notorious felonies, from the axe-murderer who terrorized New Orleans to the disappearance of the British toddler Madeleine McCann. The notorious crimes covered in these pages have one thing in common: despite extensive investigations by professional and amateur sleuths alike, the culprits have so far evaded justice" -- Cover flap.
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[2015]
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"While on honeymoon in Vienna in June, 1998, Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an accomplished thief, happened upon the greatest challenge of his life when he spotted the last remaining "Sisi Star." Named after its former owner,Empress Elisabeth, the ten-pointed diamond and pearl star was originally one of 27 that Sisi wore in her extravagantly long hair"--
14) Sex on the moon
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2011.
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In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASA's precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts' downfall.
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