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The Incredible Story of the Great Cannonball Boom
When the country shut down and the highways thinned out, a stealthy group of amateur car obsessives glimpsed an opportunity to revive the fabled cannonball run—the highly daring, absurdly illegal cross-country endurance race. And in the record-breaking frenzy that followed, they became legends of the unlikeliest pastime of the pandemic age.
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The Great Chinese Art Heist
Is the Chinese government behind one of the boldest art-crime waves in history?
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Inside the great Pyongyang crypto caper
Tags: Crypto Heist Crypto Scam Cryptocurrency Digital Underworld International Intrigue Modern Cold War North KoreaWhen a group of guileless blockchain entrepreneurs found themselves invited to North Korea, it seemed like a weird adventure – until the travellers found themselves wanted by the FBI, accused of helping a rogue state evade international sanctions. Was it really a criminal conspiracy, or just a case of crypto bros gone wrong?
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The Great Paper Caper
Years of running drugs and boosting cars left Frank Bourassa thinking: There’s got to be an easier way to earn a dishonest living. That’s when he nerved up the idea to make his fortune. (Literally.) Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in American history—a guy with more than $200 million in nearly…
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Serbia’s super thieves
The heist took months to plan, weeks to implement, and just 55 seconds to pull off.
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The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist
Leonardo Notarbartolo strolls into the prison visiting room trailing a guard as if the guy were his personal assistant. The other convicts in this eastern Belgian prison turn to look.