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 They planned the perfect score—then the details unraveled. Heist Masterminds breaks down the smartest robberies, the boldest heists, and the human errors that turned genius plans into headlines.

Each episode reconstructs real heists with cinematic pacing and forensic attention: motives, surveillance blindspots, inside jobs, getaway tactics, and the legal fallout. Unlike generic true crime shows, Heist Masterminds focuses on the mechanics of theft—how roof access was gained, which vaults failed, how tech and social engineering were used—and why some robbers succeeded while others imploded. Expect tight narrative, expert-sourced insight, and scene-by-scene analysis that satisfies both curiosity and tactical interest.

New episodes drop every day—Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday—at 9:00 AM, with concise episodes designed for commutes and deep listening alike. Formats vary from single-case reconstructions to thematic deep dives and comparative breakdowns of heist techniques.

This show is for listeners who want the nuts-and-bolts truth behind famous robberies: crime fans, security professionals, strategy enthusiasts, and anyone fascinated by planning, risk and the psychology behind high-stakes theft.

Subscribe now to follow each plot twist and technical reveal as they unfold every morning at 9:00 AM.© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators
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  • How They Swapped a $2.3M Masterpiece for a Perfect Fake

    How They Swapped a $2.3M Masterpiece for a Perfect Fake
    Oct 31 2026
    How They Swapped a $2.3M Masterpiece for a Perfect Fake

    Cold, precise, and almost surgical: a $400,000 Castellan oil was swapped for a flawless forgery that hung unnoticed for more than a day, and the original sat propped against a fountain in freezing twenty-two-degree weather. Who orchestrated an eight-month plan that used proximity cards, a hired art handler, and a workshop producing copies before a major conference even began?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of what happened at Harmon Tower, the roles of the people involved, and the forensic puzzle left behind, asking how access, expertise, and timing combined to make the theft possible.

    Person: Debra Fleming
    Person: Wanda Chu
    Person: George Peterson
    Person: Curtis Webb
    Event: Theft discovered January 14, 2011

    - At 6:53 AM on January 14, 2011, Debra Fleming found the original painting propped against a fountain.
    - Overnight temperature was 22 degrees the morning the painting was found.
    - Westfield Holdings' corporate art collection consisted of seven pieces appraised at $2.3 million in total.
    - Curtis Webb, the handler brought in for the job, was 41 years old with 11 years of professional experience.
    - Holly York rented a workshop under Meridian Frame Works in August 2010 and opened a mailbox in October 2010.

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    2 min
  • The Coin That Fell Between Night Shifts and Nearly Stayed Hidden

    The Coin That Fell Between Night Shifts and Nearly Stayed Hidden
    Oct 30 2026
    The Coin That Fell Between Night Shifts and Nearly Stayed Hidden

    Fear of a razor-precise crime: a single coin stood on its edge inside an emergency exit seam, dated December 3 when production didn’t start until December 9, and that photograph became Exhibit One - how did one tiny object expose eleven nights of secret counterfeiting inside a Treasury-licensed plant?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from a four-minute meter reading to a federal case, detailing who was on the payroll, who never set foot inside, and how schedule entries and a replacement gasket turned a near-invisible operation into provable evidence - could a coin falling by accident really unravel a coordinated scheme?

    Person: John Cole
    Date: December 4, 2011
    Location: Farwell Precision Mint
    Case: federal case opened after Exhibit One photograph
    Event: unauthorized parallel counterfeiting runs over eleven nights

    - John Cole spent four minutes at the exterior wall and photographed the upright coin in an emergency exit door seam with a gap less than one centimeter.
    - The coin’s obverse was dated December 3 while the scheduled production run for that series began December 9.
    - Duane Burns directed the operation remotely through rotating prepaid phones and never entered the facility.
    - Kevin Adler ran unauthorized presses between midnight and 3 a.m. and lost a test coin from his jacket on the night of December 3.
    - Investigators found 144 test pieces in a storage unit registered to Adler and 312 production strikes linked to the scheme.

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    2 min
  • How They Emptied a Locked Drawer While Every Camera Looked Away

    How They Emptied a Locked Drawer While Every Camera Looked Away
    Oct 29 2026
    How They Emptied a Locked Drawer While Every Camera Looked Away

    The idea that a locked steel cash drawer holding about $42,000 could be emptied in five minutes while fourteen cameras all pointed elsewhere is a slow, cold shock: the security system rotated its lenses away on a weekly schedule and the supervisor code logged an entry from inside the room even though the supervisor was two corridors away. How did routine procedures and a scheduled camera sweep become the tool for a theft that left no forced entry and no immediate suspect?

    In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the physical evidence from that Saturday afternoon and follow the trail inside the building to the atypical presences and unexplained log entries that framed the case. Which detail already inside the facility - a service van, a badge swipe, a routine camera program - ultimately held the key to how the theft was executed?

    Date: November 26, 2011
    Location: Garrison Downs racetrack
    Amount: approximately $42,000
    Time of disappearance: five minutes beginning at 3:14 PM
    Cameras: fourteen cameras rotated away at the exact five-minute window

    - At 3:14 PM the interior keypad logged supervisor Dave Kowalski’s code entering the float room, though Kowalski was standing with Paula Reyes two corridors away.
    - The steel cash drawer held approximately $42,000 in mixed bills and coin rolls at 3:14 PM and was empty five minutes later.
    - Fourteen surveillance cameras covering the corridor all rotated away from the float room during the precise five minutes the cash disappeared, as part of a programmed weekly schedule.
    - A Ridgemont Systems service van had been parked in the racetrack service lot from 11:00 AM and remained until about 3:15 PM despite a forty-minute alternator inspection work order.
    - The south service corridor badge reader recorded four swipes between 3:05 PM and 3:20 PM, including Chris Odum’s swipe at 3:15 PM placing him in the building during the time of the theft.

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