Daring Capers – True Crime Stories
Through dramatizations, news footage and interviews with witnesses and law enforcement officials, Daring Capers takes you down the moral low road into the enticingly dangerous, devilish world of the criminal.
Kennedy Airport Caper
Just before dawn on December 7, 1978, seven men entered the Lufthansa Air Cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport and escaped with 8 million dollars in cash, foreign currency, gems and gold. The intricately choreographed, perfectly timed crime went off without a hitch and despite strong efforts by the NYPD and FBI, not one cent or piece of loot was ever recovered, nor have any of the thieves been convicted. Torn apart by greed over their unexpectedly huge haul, all suspects in the crime have been murdered or are missing and presumed dead, victims of their own success.
Armoured Robbery
Philip Johnson had a 7 dollars-an-hour job as a security courier, but he dreamed of bigger things. On March 29, 1997, his dream came true when he made off with 18.8 million dollars from his employer, Loomis, Fargo and Co, in Jacksonville, Florida. He’d planned the crime for years, gradually accumulating fake identifications, casually scoping out Loomis, Fargo’s operation. Friends had no idea what he was planning. Then one night he kidnapped two co-workers, loaded the cash – in unmarked tens and twenties into a van and fled.
The co-workers were released unharmed, but Johnson and the cash (which weighed nearly 1,000 pounds) were gone. it was the largest heist in U.S. history – a glorious crime, but a short-lived one. In September, 1997, Johnson, traveling under an assumed name, was flushed out during a routine inspection of a bus crossing from Mexico to Texas. He was carrying more than 10,000 dollars in his pockets. The FBI recovered all but 100,000 dollars of the money in a storage unit in North Carolina.
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