Heist Club

School of Humans

Welcome to Heist Club! We're here to uncover the details behind some of the most audacious and ridiculous robberies of all time. How they pulled it off. How they got caught. And the mysteries that remain. Bank heists, art heists, diamond heists – and other capers you won't believe – with plenty of movie references along the way. Welcome to the Club!

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S1 · E57
Wednesday · 58 min
From The Vault: All Aboard! America's First Train Robbery
On a fall evening in 1866, three men hop on a steam train just as it leaves the depot. But they're not your average passengers – and they're not here for a ride. Their destination? The express delivery car. They open the door, Colt 45s in hand. The stunned guard follows their orders. The thieves grab the loot and leap off the locomotive with $10,000 in gold. Welcome to America's first train robbery – by its first outlaw gang.
S1 · E157
October 21 · 56 min
674 Diamonds For Marie Antoinette
On a February evening in 1785 Paris, an intermediary for Queen Marie Antoinette enters a famous jewelry shop to secure a diamond necklace for the royal: the most expensive in history. She has been sent on strict instructions to keep the transaction secret, lest the king find out. The intermediary leaves as quick as she came, with a promise that the queen will start sending payments come summertime. When she puts the necklace in her bag, it's the last the jewelers ever see of it, and payment never comes. This is the affair of the queen's stolen necklace.
S1 · E55
October 14 · 1 hr 1 min
From The Vault: Oh Snap! Someone's Stealing Snapping Turtles?!
It's a spring morning in a Texas swamp where an elusive alligator snapping turtle hunts for his meal. He spots some meat floating right in front of his face and chomps down. Instead of a delicious meal he feels the sharp sting of a hook; and now there are hands on his shell. He wriggles and thrashes against his attackers as they hoist him into a johnboat and manhandle him into a mesh bag. He's taken to shore and tossed into the bed of a truck with another turtle. Hours later, he's dumped into a pond and comes face to face with more of his kind. They're fenced in and far from home. All he can do is wait for dinner, and he's on the menu.
October 7 · 45 min
From The Vault: 18-Karat Crapper Caper
On a September evening in 2019, a party rages on in Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. Partygoers celebrate the arrival of an acclaimed, and strange, art piece. Each guest gets personal quality time with the work. But alas, the party must end. A couple hours later, two cars rip across the courtyard. 4 men leap out, armed with sledgehammers, crowbars, and wrenches. They smash a window and break the art into pieces, prying it apart. Shortly after they flee, the police arrive, only to be met with tire tracks, a flooded palace, and a hole where an 18-karat gold toilet worth $6M should be.
S1 · E54
September 30 · 45 min
From The Vault: The Ruby Red Slipper Snatcher
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 investigate the broken glass. She is immediately faced with an empty pillar and a lone red sequin. The Ruby Slippers have been stolen.
S1 · E53
September 23 · 46 min
From The Vault: Tome Radiers
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 centuries old, extremely rare, and very expensive, - not jewels, not art, but books.
S1 · E49
September 16 · 40 min
From The Vault: The Heist That Baroque Oxford's Heart
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 vanish into the night. Police answer the alarm within the hour, but it's no use. $12 million dollars worth of art - gone without a trace.
S1 · E47
September 9 · 48 min
From The Vault: Great Scot - a Stolen Stone!
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 chapel floor, and into the snowy morning.
S1 · E50
September 2 · 51 min
From The Vault: Three Thieves and a Baby Shark
It's July 28, 2018 at the San Antonio Aquarium. With school out for the summer, the aquarium is bustling with families. It's a seemingly normal day, until an employee spies something fishy: two men exiting a restricted area, pushing a baby stroller that's leaking water! Suddenly, alarms are blaring – the water is contaminated with bleach! Employees rush to solve the problem and everything seems fine… except one beloved aquatic resident named Miss Helen… is gone!
S1 · E46
August 26 · 59 min
From The Vault: Heist Day Afternoon
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 Wojtowicz's labor of love. But, hold on. If you've already seen the movie, don't go away, because our protagonist claims that the film tells only 30% of the story…
S1 · E46
August 19 · 59 min
From The Vault: Bye Bye Buzzy, A Disney Heist
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 ocean of hydraulic fluid. Buzzy is gone.
S1 · E45
August 12 · 1 hr 9 min
From The Vault: Butch Cassidy, the Gentleman Bandit
On a rainy summer night in 1899, a railroad engineer powers a locomotive carrying passengers, mail, and other wares through the Wyoming prairie. Through the darkness, he spots two lanterns signaling an emergency stop. He breaks just in time. Instead of helpful railworkers, two masked men reveal pistols and announce that he is being robbed. Even more men board the train and after two hours of chaos and explosions, the bandits escape with $30,000. He just experienced a hit from Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang.
S1 · E45
August 5 · 1 hr 1 min
From The Vault: The Beach Boys Nab NY Gems
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 jewels with the ease of seasoned veterans, scooping up 24 priceless gems. The two thieves sneak back out the window and abscond into the night.
S1 · E45
July 29 · 1 hr 10 min
From The Vault: Weekend At Evita's
On a November evening in 1955 in Argentina, an embalmer works on his most important project: the first lady of the nation. After nearly two years of operating in secret, he hopes the rival party will stay ignorant of his magnum opus. But that night, 20 soldiers burst through the door and drag the body into the night. They have just taken his Evita.
S1 · E44
July 27 · 11 min
Bonus: Heist Club Cash Grab Winner Interview
Todd and Jesse have a quick chat with the winner of the Heist Club Cash Grab!
S1 · E44
July 22 · 1 hr 2 min
From The Vault: Ba-STEAL Day
On a Monday morning in Nice, France, customers at a bank grow agitated as they wait to make their deposits. The short line grows into a small crowd. The vault door is stuck. And as the hours tick by, the door won't budge. Not even the manufacturer can get it open. In the end, frustrated employees take a jackhammer to the wall and make a hole big enough to peek through. Instead of neatly sealed deposit boxes, the employees find scattered papers, muddy tools, and an inscription on the wall that reads: "sans armes, ni haine, ni violence."
S1 · E43
July 15 · 44 min
Getting Bombed: The Lake Tahoe Casino Heist Pt. 2
On this week's Heist Club, we return to Harvey's Casino. We left off on an explosive moment. The FBI will use a strategically placed C4 charge to try and short out the circuit of the bomb and stop its detonation, but it does not go as planned.
S1 · E42
July 8 · 37 min
Getting Bombed: The Lake Tahoe Casino Heist Pt. 1
It's late August in Lake Tahoe in 1980, and crowds of tourists flood the casinos that mark the border between Nevada and California. One such casino is Harvey's Casino and Resort Hotel, the stateline's oldest gambling establishment. And just as the sun peaks out over the horizon a white van pulls up to the casino's delivery port. Then, two men in matching white jump suits unload a massive item hidden under a sheet. They wheel it past security, into the elevator, and place it outside the second floor offices. Before leaving, they drop a note titled STERN WARNING TO THE MANAGEMENT AND BOMB SQUAD. The casino has 24 hours to deliver $3 million or else 1000 pounds of dynamite will flatten the building.
S1 · E40
July 1 · 39 min
The Heist That Saved the American Revolution
On the night of August 14th, 1775, two dozen men sneak through the streets of St. George's in Bermuda, right under the British governor's nose. Only guided by moonlight, they trek to the top of a hill and face a stone building. Carefully and quietly, they chisel their way through the roof and send a man inside. What waits for him is over 3,000 pounds of gunpowder. They carry the barrels out to sea onto waiting ships. Their destination: Philadelphia. This is the heist that paved the way to victory in the Revolutionary War.
S1 · E39
June 24 · 39 min
Sweet Score: The Jewelry Heist That Started in a Candy Shop
It's Memorial Day 2025 and employees at Dr. Conkey's Candy and Coffee in Simi Valley, California open the shop for the holiday. They are immediately met with disarray. There is paint splashed over the cameras, entire shelves are toppled over, and the safe is open. Strangely, there is also a hole in the wall leading to the business next door, 5 Star Jewelry and Watch Repair. The jewelry store owners rush over, fearing the worst, and sure enough, when they open the safe, customers' jewelry, gold bars, and all their savings, $3.5 million total, are gone.

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