Latest Art heists Podcast Episodes
EP 43 - The British Bank of the Middle East Heist
I Can Steal That! - February 09, 2021 01:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn January of 1976 a team of thieves descended upon a bank in the middle of a literal war zone to pull off the biggest bank heist in history. Armed with rifles, grenade launchers, and even mortar tubes, the thieves managed to empty the vault of the British Bank of the Middle East of at least $25...
EP 42 - The Great Train Robbery
I Can Steal That! - February 01, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn 1963, a team of thieves pulled off one of the most audacious train heists in history, without firing a single shot. The heist, worth over $40,000,000 in today's money was the perfect combination of planning, muscle, and crazy and like any good heist there's some fun nicknames. Pete is joine...
EP 41 - The Swedish Crown Jewels Heist
I Can Steal That! - January 25, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsWhen you hear about a nation's crown jewels being stolen, it sounds like the work of a master thief with unlimited resources and high tech tools. Sometimes, though, it's just a couple of dumb friends with stolen bikes that bite off more than they can chew and those stories can be just as entert...
EP 40 - The Iceland Bitcoin Heist
I Can Steal That! - January 16, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsWhy steal money when you can steal a money printing press? That's exactly what a team of Icelandic thieves did, and we break down exactly how they did it and get into what bitcoin is, how it works, and why Iceland is a great place to do crime. (Please don't do crimes in Iceland.) Pete is joi...
EP 39 - The Nigerian Prince Scam
I Can Steal That! - January 11, 2021 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsThe Nigerian Prince scam is probably the most iconic scam running today, and on this episode we're doing a deep dive into the history of the scam and how Emmanuel Nwude ran a variation of this scam to sell an imaginary airport for $330 Million dollars, making it the third largest financial fraud...
EP 38 - Ivar Kreuger - The Match King of Sweden
I Can Steal That! - December 30, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIvar Kreuger was a business man and financial whiz that became the Match King of Sweden AND an engineer that worked on the Flatiron building and Macys flagship in NYC, and he invented financial practices that are still in use today, but what he is best known today for is financing governments ...
EP 37 - The Dunbar Heist
I Can Steal That! - December 21, 2020 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsOn September 12, 1997 six friends pulled off the heist of a lifetime at the Dunbar armored car depot in Los Angeles, California. After subduing the security guards and moving throughout the building without being detected by the facility's cameras, they managed to steal 18.9 million dollars in ...
EP 36 - The Heist of the Century
I Can Steal That! - December 14, 2020 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn January 2006, a team of thieves walked into the Banco Rio building in Buenos Aires and pulled off what is considered by many to be the heist of the century. This heist has inspired several movies, the Netflix Series "Money Heist," and countless other real world heists. Pete is joined this ep...
I Can Steal That! Trailer
I Can Steal That! - December 09, 2020 12:00 - 45 seconds ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsLike heists, scams, and cons? I Can Steal That! is the true crime podcast that's never too heavy. Each episode tells the story of some of history's most outrageous heists, cons, and scams and the fascinating people behind them. Host Pete Stegemeyer uses his cyber security and military experience...
EP 35 - Natwarlal - India's greatest con man
I Can Steal That! - December 07, 2020 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsNatwarlal was the most successful con man in India's history and is still revered by many as something of a folk hero. Over a career of several decades, he mastered forgery, impersonation, and social engineering to pull off scams that are too crazy to believe including selling the Taj Mahal to f...
EP 34 - Gone in 6 weeks or so
I Can Steal That! - November 30, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsMinjian Yang led one of the world's most successful car theft rings - stealing thousands of cars from NYC and then smuggling them into China where wealthy buyers waited. Yang and his crew made tens of millions of dollars using military like precision and discipline, and eventually got so good ...
EP 33 - The Original Italian Job
I Can Steal That! - November 25, 2020 03:03 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn the early 16th Century two of history's greatest minds conspired to pull off the most ambitious heist in the history of the world. Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo Da Vinci weren't just going to steal money though - they were going to steal a whole river. Seriously.Pete is joined this week by...
EP 32 - The King Of Thieves
I Can Steal That! - November 16, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsKing Farouk of Egypt was one of the last members of a monarchy dating back over ten thousand years, but he wasn't just the king of Egypt, he was also the king of thieves. Farouk stole paintings, jewelry, even a 94 carat diamond and got so good at pick pocketing that he stole Winston Churchill's p...
EP 31 - Crazy Eddie
I Can Steal That! - November 09, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsCrazy Eddie's was an electronics store known for their absolutely insane commercials and INSAAAAANE prices but what they didn't advertise was that almost every single aspect of their organization was a fraud. Money Laundering, embezzlement, insurance and inventory fraud - Crazy Eddie's did it al...
EP 30 - Crazy Eddie
I Can Steal That! - November 09, 2020 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsCrazy Eddie's was an electronics store known for their absolutely insane commercials and INSAAAAANE prices but what they didn't advertise was that almost every single aspect of their organization was a fraud. Money Laundering, embezzlement, insurance and inventory fraud - Crazy Eddie's did it al...
EP 30 - The Swedish Helicopter Heist
I Can Steal That! - November 02, 2020 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn September of 2009, a team of thieves pulled off a heist so insane it sounds like something out of Grand Theft Auto. Using a stolen helicopter and a bunch of bombs, the team was able to steal so much cash that the city of Stockholm almost ran out of bills in the days following the heist, and th...
EP 29 - The Teardrop
I Can Steal That! - October 25, 2020 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn 2001 a gang of thieves broke into a garage on Milwaukee's lower east side and stole what many call the most beautiful car ever made - a 1938 Talbot Lago T-150C SS. This is the story of the car theft, bungling police, and international scandal. Pete is joined by comedian and Tik Tok celebrity P...
EP 28 - Babyfaced Arms Dealers
I Can Steal That! - October 19, 2020 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsDuring the height of the Afghan and Iraq wars, the US began outsourcing as much of the war as possible to the lowest bidder. Anybody with an internet connection and an LLC could submit bids to provide anything from bullets to bazookas. When two twenty somethings won a $300,000,000 bid to provide ...
EP 27 - McKamey Manor
I Can Steal That! - October 13, 2020 01:51 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsMcKamey Manor is infamous among the horror experience community with a reputation for the extreme. Promising a $20,000 prize to anybody that can complete the entire 8 hour ordeal, participants are subjected to brutal physical and mental abuse and so far nobody has collected the grand prize. McKa...
EP 26 - The Hope Diamond
I Can Steal That! - October 05, 2020 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsThe Hope Diamond is probably the most well known gem in the world. The enormous blue stone is the inspiration behind Titanic's heart of the ocean, and the jewel has been worn by multiple kings and sultans across many centuries and continents. The Hope Diamond isn't JUST beautiful though - it's a...
EP 25 - Mediums
I Can Steal That! - September 28, 2020 04:01 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsSpooky Season is here so we're covering some otherworldly scams! In this episode we dive deep into the history of psychic mediums and some of the more unscrupulous "seers" and how they take advantage of people that are hurting. Pete is joined by the fantastic Shanyce Lora. Catch Shanyce streami...
EP 24 - The Great Gold Train Robbery
I Can Steal That! - September 21, 2020 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn 1855, the South Eastern Railway was packed up with gold en route to Paris. However, when the gold merchants in Paris opened up the crates, they found lead balls instead of their gold. This is the story of the Great Gold Train Robbery - the first ever heist on a moving train, and the men and...
EP 23 - Operation Odessa
I Can Steal That! - September 15, 2020 01:57 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsIn 1980s Miami, nothing was out of reach to those with money and the right connections. Guns, Drugs, Girls, anything you wanted could be yours for the right price if you spoke to a Ukrainian mobster by the name of Tarzan. So when the Soviet Union fell and drug cartels wanted to buy helicopters a...
ICST EP 22 - The Antwerp Diamond Heist
I Can Steal That! - September 07, 2020 17:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsThe Antwerp Diamond Center is the world's largest hub for diamonds, doing billions in business each year. Two stories underground, an impossibly complex vault stored hundreds of millions of dollars in stones, gold, silver, and cash. This is the story of how one gang of thieves pulled off the he...
ICST Bonus Barbara Erni
I Can Steal That! - August 31, 2020 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsFor our first Bonus Episode, we're going to be telling the story of one of the most ingenious heists/cons you've never heard of. This is the story of Barbara "The Golden Boos" Erni and a con that feels straight out of a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign. This episode's guest is NYC Comic and TikTok s...
EP 21 - Affair Of The Diamond Necklace
I Can Steal That! - August 24, 2020 04:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsWhen Louis XV commissioned a necklace for his favorite mistress, he couldn't know that he was setting in motion a series of events that would help spark the French Revolution, but that's exactly what happened. This is the story of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace - a scam that cost some peopl...
EP 20 - The Great Maple Syrup Heist
I Can Steal That! - August 17, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsDid you know that there's a maple syrup mafia AND a maple syrup black market? On this episode, we're going to talk about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist - and how tens of thousands of gallons of brown gold - worth 50 times as much as crude oil - were stolen.My guest on this episode is NYC C...
ICST EP 19 - Gerald Blanchard - the skydiving, star stealing crime savant
I Can Steal That! - August 03, 2020 03:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsThe only thing scarier than someone that spends months planning a jewel heist is somebody that can plan it in a day. Gerald Blanchard is one of those kinds of thieves. Not only did he pull of a movie quality heist on a whim, he led police down an insane rabbit hole of international bank heists a...
ICST EP 18 - LuLaRoe
I Can Steal That! - July 29, 2020 19:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsOn this episode of I Can Steal That, we cover our first pyramid scheme! LuLaRoe didn't just sell buttery soft leggings, they sold the dream of financial independence to thousands of women across the world. For a while, these dreams came true for several consultants that were suddenly making tens ...
EP 17 - Cyber Art Heist
I Can Steal That! - July 20, 2020 10:58 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 125 ratingsThe hardest part of almost every heist is selling what you've stolen, but today we're going to discuss a crime that's half art heist, half cyber crime, and all brilliant, because the thief just skipped the whole "stealing the painting" bit and went straight to the money, leaving no trace and a me...
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