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Ever wondered how the world's most audacious heists were pulled off? Thieves of Fortune exposes the intricate plans, the daring escapes, and the sheer audacity behind history's most legendary robberies.

Each episode dives deep into real-life capers, from elaborate bank heists to high-stakes art thefts and jewel robberies. We uncover the masterminds, the fatal flaws, and the untold stories behind every incredible crime, offering a compelling narrative that goes beyond the headlines.

New episodes drop daily, Monday through Sunday, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh dose of intrigue to start your day. Expect meticulously researched true crime stories, presented with a gripping narrative style that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the psychology of criminals, the thrill of the chase, and the meticulous planning involved in grand larceny. If you love true crime podcasts and stories of epic scores, you've found your next obsession.

Subscribe to Thieves of Fortune now and unlock the secrets of the world's most infamous thieves.© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators Crimini reali
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  • How a Museum Swap Hid a $3M Painting for Two Years

    How a Museum Swap Hid a $3M Painting for Two Years
    Oct 18 2026
    How a Museum Swap Hid a $3M Painting for Two Years

    Danger lurked behind a perfect forgery: a reproduction so precise that two quarterly inspections missed it, and a three-million-dollar Flemish panel hung on the wrong wall for eleven months. Who swapped a sixteenth-century oil painted on panel and walked away with the original while the museum displayed a flawless fake?

    In this episode, we follow the chain of events from installation to discovery, tracing the people, purchases, and small oversights that let the theft go unnoticed - and ask how an insider operation managed to substitute a high-value loan without immediate detection.

    Person: Earl Powell
    Date: April 9, (two thousand twenty-two implied by timeline)
    Location: Harwick Regional Museum, Dunbar, Ohio
    Event: Substitution of The Harbormaster's Supper with a reproduction
    Status: Original missing; replacement discovered by conservator

    - Painting dimensions: approximately 42 inches tall and 58 inches wide
    - Insurance value: just over $3,000,000 through Pelham Underwriters in Cincinnati
    - Seal detail: 2-centimeter holographic authentication sticker placed lower right on the glazing
    - Timespan unnoticed: reproduction hung for eleven months before discovery
    - Logistics link: holographic blank purchased from a Netherlands distributor eight months before the operation

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    18 min
  • The Perfect Coffee Cup: How $214,000 Disappeared Without a Trace

    The Perfect Coffee Cup: How $214,000 Disappeared Without a Trace
    Oct 17 2026
    The Perfect Coffee Cup: How $214,000 Disappeared Without a Trace

    A single coffee cup stood perfectly upright in a sealed armored truck that had traveled thirty-one miles with $214,000 missing and no alarm tripped. How did two men lose hours of memory, the money vanish, and a cup remain unspilled - and what link connects a routine mechanic visit to a coffee habit?

    In this episode, you hear the sequence of events from the truck discovery to the investigative trail that led back fourteen months, following service records, GPS logs, and personnel timelines to the surprising clue that tied it all together: could a coffee stop and a mechanic's work be the missing piece?

    Date: March, 2011
    Location: Halverton, Ohio
    Case: $214,000 missing from Consolidated Courier Services armored truck
    Persons: Thomas Ellard; Daniel Pruitt; Jessica Romano; Monica Vogel
    Event: Truck found unattended in Calloway Commerce Center loading bay with cargo empty and coffee cup inside

    - The armored truck had no alarm activation, intact seals, and undamaged locks when discovered.
    - $214,000 in payroll cash was missing from the cargo hold.
    - The truck was found thirty-one miles from its scheduled destination with the engine still running.
    - Two men, driver Thomas Ellard (41) and guard Daniel Pruitt (34), were found unconscious at a Route 40 rest area and recalled no time gap.
    - GPS logs showed Ellard made eleven Monday coffee stops at the same BP station between 5:40 and 6:10 p.m., always for 9-15 minutes.

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    17 min
  • They Lived in the Walls: How $214,000 Vanished Through Dust

    They Lived in the Walls: How $214,000 Vanished Through Dust
    Oct 16 2026
    They Lived in the Walls: How $214,000 Vanished Through Dust

    The plaster dust was thin, perfectly uniform, and settled five weeks before anyone noticed-yet the ceiling was intact and the vault had been emptied of $214,000 without triggering an alarm. How can two rows of concrete blocks be removed, money walked away, and nothing in the room explain where the dust came from?

    In this episode, we follow the steps taken by a twenty-three-year-old investigator who focused on the dust, the blueprints and a crawl space running beneath three businesses, and we track how those small details point to a method that left no obvious break-in. What did the dust reveal about the nights someone spent inside the building?

    Person: Grant Zeller
    Date: February 19, 2011
    Location: Hartwell Savings & Loan, Aldine Street, Corden, Virginia
    Case: Commercial burglary - $214,000 missing
    Person: Janet Anderson

    - $214,000 in bundled bills was removed from the vault without the alarm triggering.
    - The dust was identified as plaster particulate consistent with aged gypsum board from late-1970s construction.
    - The crawl space beneath the block ran continuously across the building with approximately 76 centimeters (about 30 inches) of clearance.
    - Two rows of concrete masonry blocks in the interior wall were loosened, removed, used, and restacked over multiple nights.
    - Grant Zeller, age 61, discovered a uniform layer of plaster dust in the back room five weeks after the disturbance began.

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