• 2004
  • 1h
Masterminds

Summary It tells true crime stories about amazing deceptions that brilliant criminals use to commit seemingly impossible crimes. View more details

  • 2004
  • 1h

Masterminds

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jamie Watson Kevin Busch Toofun West David Rego

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Genres : Crime Documentary

Release date : Jan 3, 2025

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Court TV History Channel

Language : English

Filming locations : Canada

Production companies : Red Apple Entertainment

Summary It tells true crime stories about amazing deceptions that brilliant criminals use to commit seemingly impossible crimes. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Documentary

Release date : Jan 3, 2025

Countries of origin : Canada

Official sites : Court TV History Channel

Language : English

Filming locations : Canada

Production companies : Red Apple Entertainment

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Thomas Wayne Harris in Masterminds (2003) Masterminds (2003)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jul 15, 2003
The Anthon Forgeries
Mark Hoffman is an expert at forging documents, and fooling the experts. His forgeries of important Mormon documents grant him wealth and fame, but the increasing pressures of his criminal enterprise turn Hoffman into a ticking time bomb.
Episode 2 • Jul 15, 2003
The Dunbar Heist
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
The KinghtBridge Heist
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
The Riviera Job
No one believed that ANYONE would be able to penetrate the four-foot thick walls of the Societé Generale, until bank employees arrived to find the vault door welded shut--from the inside. They had not reckoned with Albert Spaggiari. Entering the sewer system of Nice, France, his team tunneled through the rock and concrete with drills, hammers and chisels. They opened the safety deposit boxes; the appraiser they brought along sorting out the most valuable loot. The total of cash, jewels, and gold bullion was over $12 million--largest in French history. Spaggiari was never convicted, escaping from a judge's office window! He even wrote a book about the "Riviera Bank Heist."
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
The Laguna Niguel Heist
The Dinsio bank heist gang from Ohio traveled to Orange County, CA to steal the contents of safety deposit boxes in a bank reputed to hold clandestine accumulations. They realized the bank's weak spot was the roof. Their entry was flawless, allowing them three nights to loot the vault and escape, leaving no fingerprints, only lots of dust and one cotton glove. The FBI looked for a group of airline travelers coming and going near the time of the heist, then traced them through taxi drivers, phone records and condo rental agents. In spite of an intensive housecleaning, all the gang's fingerprints were found in, of all places, a loaded dishwasher which they had forgotten to turn on! Masterful heist + messed up getaway = mastermind and his men convicted.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
A Smuggler Supreme
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
The Forger's Art
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
The Hotel Pierre Heist
Manhattan, January 2nd 1972, 4am. A limo arrives at the Hotel Pierre. One the four passengers has a reservation under a false name. They rob the hotel, taking a few million (1972) dollars worth of jewelry from its safe.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
The Perfect Score
In Chicago, 1986 all the safe deposit boxes at a bank are broken in to over a weekend. The boxes are then put back together so that they appear normal. Monday the thief walks out unnoticed before the crime is discovered.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
A Day at the Races
The criminals who won over $3million on horse racing by forging winning betting slips for the Breeders' Cup before being caught.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
The Stopwatch Gang
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
King of Car Thieves
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
A Gem of a Heist
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Fools Gold
A recreation of the Bre-X goldmine scam in Indonesia that swindled thousands of investors out of their life savings.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
The Bandit Queen
Florida police are baffled by a string of robberies in mansions with impenetrable security systems. Find out how Judy Amar was able to pull of these high-profile heists on her own.
Episode 16 • Apr 22, 2004
The Dinner Set Gang
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
The James Bond Gang
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