A well thought out plan and luck are two components of a successful crime. We know of several cases that have not been disclosed for more than a year and are likely to remain so.
Ideal is called a crime, for which no one was punished. In history, there are a lot of examples where you can say that criminals are real lucky or they are really well prepared. Let's find out what sort of cases the police tortured for a long time at different times, but they remained "drovers".
1. The Departure of Jimmy Hoff
The American trade union leader had many enemies who were waiting for a convenient moment to take him out of his way. After the FBI launched an investigation against Hoff, suspecting him of corruption, his enemies intensified. And Jimmy disappeared, and what really happened - is still unknown. There is evidence that he left the restaurant in Detroit, accompanied by several members of the mafia. Before that, he called his wife, saying that he had been framed. The FBI was looking for Jimmy for seven years, but neither alive nor dead it was not found. As a result, the investigators declared him dead.
2. The largest theft of diamonds
Jewels have always been interested in robbers, especially if they are huge. In 2003, on 15 February, a carefully planned crime was committed in Antwerp. According to the assumptions, the four robbers entered the vault, which, by the way, had several levels of protection, and cleared 123 deposit cells. Thieves thought they had provided themselves with a comfortable life forever, but they were caught, and because of their own inattention. One of the criminals left their tracks in the vault, and another, near the scene of the crime, threw away the half-eaten sandwich and the bag in which the stones were transported. The police were able to detain the criminals, but they could not get the diamonds back.
3. Plastic artifact replacement
Diver Teddy Tucker was a hunter for the values he was looking for off the coast of San Pedro. His goal was realized - he found a 22-carat gold cross with green emeralds. It was an invaluable artifact, but Teddy wanted to make money and decided to sell it to the government of Bermuda. During transportation, the jewelry was changed to a plastic replica. Who the robber was, and when exactly the theft happened - is still unknown. The artifact was not found, and there is speculation that the emeralds were separated and sold on the black market, and the gold cross was melted down.
4. Theft in Boston
On St. Patrick's Day on March 18, 1990, a robbery took place in the Boston Art Museum. The policemen turned to the guard, stating that they had received an alarming message that the building contained burglars. When the guard opened the door, he was handcuffed, and the same watchful waiting for the second watchman. For a few minutes thieves took with them 13 of the most expensive paintings and fled in an unknown direction. Since that time, the police have not been able to establish the identity of the robbers, and where the paintings are, because they have never appeared on the market.
5. The disappearance of a million
An incredible situation occurred in 1977 on October 7 at the First National Bank of Chicago. Many believe that without magic there was not. On Friday, the bank clerk deposited $ 4 million in the depository, and on Tuesday the workers missed $ 1 million. It was not possible to find out where 36 kg of notes had evaporated and who were robbers, the police failed. It is interesting that in 4 years during the delay of drug traffickers it was found $ 2.3 thousand of the stolen amount. The rest of the money is still in circulation.
6. The robbery of a jewelry store in Germany
In 2009, on February 25, a robbery of one of the jewelry stores of Europe's second largest shopping center, Des Westens, was committed. Three robbers descended through the window along the rope ladder and took jewelry worth more than € 5 million. It would seem that everything went well, but one of the thieves left his glove at the crime scene, and the police managed to extract DNA from it. The investigators sighed with relief, because a serious crime was discovered, but, as it turned out, the glove belonged to one of the twins Hassan or Abbas. Since they had almost identical DNA, it was not possible to identify the robber accurately, and according to the German legislation, criminals can be judged only individually, so the brothers had to be released. This is an obvious example of a situation where luck has smiled at people. By the way, nothing is known about the third robber.
7. Undercutting for Banco Central
In Brazil, in the city of Fortaleza in 2005, a robbery under the Hollywood film scenario was realized. Three months the robbers conducted excavation work, a breakthrough 200-meter tunnel. They reached the Banco Central storehouse, blasted a hole in a meter-thick reinforced concrete floor, stole $ 65 million and fled the police. The investigation allowed finding only part of the money, and after a while one of the organizers of the robbery was found dead. Other robbers with the rest of the money were not caught.
8. Catching machine cash collectors
The robbery that occurred in Tokyo on December 10, 1968, is more like a new blockbuster scenario. In the collector's car, 300 million yen were transported, and a policeman approached him (as it later turned out to be, not real), saying that a bomb had been installed in the car. This was not the first such message, so the collectors reacted to it and stopped. The pseudo police officer bent down to examine the bottom, and at that moment a bright fiery flash occurred. People began to scatter, and the thief got behind the wheel of the car and disappeared in an unknown direction. In 1975, the statute of limitations of the crime expired, and in 1988 - all civil obligations were annulled. The police were never able to establish who the robber was, after interviewing more than 110 thousand suspects.
9. A Win-Win Strategy
Another story of robbery shows how important savvy. The team of thieves was able to rob 58 times the French supermarket chain Monoprih. Their extraction was $ 800 thousand. Not a single intruder was identified and caught. Special attention deserves the method of theft, which, it seems, was taken from the movies. The money in the vaults came through the air duct, and so, the criminals made a hole in it and connected a powerful vacuum cleaner, which drained money.
10. Capturing an aircraft in America
In the whole history of the existence of US aviation, only one unsolved crime is known, which occurred on November 24, 1971. On this day, a man named Dan Cooper boarded an airplane that was heading from Portland to Seattle. He handed the note to the stewardess, where it was written that there was a bomb in his briefcase. Dan demanded that he be paid $ 200 thousand and gave out four serviceable parachutes. All this he received in Seattle, then released all the passengers, ordered the pilot to take off and go to Mexico. When they crossed the mountains in the north-west of Portland, Cooper donned a parachute and jumped. The police could not find out whether he survived after that or not, but in 1980, in an area where Dan was supposed to land, $ 6,000 was found.