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If you visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, you might be surprised to see frames without any paintings in them. This isn't a mistake-museum officials hope to someday return the artwork that was stolen from the museum to these frames. In the early morning hours after St. Patrick's Day in 1990, a guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum was tricked into allowing a pair of thieves disguised as police officers to enter the building. The thieves used duct tape to secure the two guards on duty in the basement while they stole 13 pieces of art. The art, and the thieves, have never been recovered.The famous tale of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist, the first of five stories in Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers to the mystery and suspense of interesting crimes. Other topics discussed in the book include the stories of famous robbers D.B. Cooper and Marm Mandelbaum, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and the Christmas Eve art theft at the Mexico City Museum in 1985.Daring Heists is the third book in a new series called Mystery & Mayhem, which features true tales that whet kids' appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records-mystery and adventure. History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true-almost! The Mystery & Mayhem series delves into these tidbits of history to provide kids with a jumping off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history. Each of the five true tales told within Daring Heists is paired with a map, as well as fun facts about the setting, industry, and time period. A glossary and resources page provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.

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Publié par	Nomad Press
Date de parution	22 mai 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781619305328
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	86 Mo

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DARINGHEISTS

Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers TOMMCCARTHY

DARINGHEISTS

Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers TOMMCCARTHY

Nomad Press A division of Nomad Communications 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Copyright © 2017 by Nomad Press. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review orfor limited educational use. The trademark “Nomad Press” and the Nomad Press logo are trademarks of Nomad Communications, Inc. Educational Consultant, Marla Conn

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Contents

Introduction . . . 1 Sensational Robberies and Robbers

Chapter One . . . 5 D.B. Cooper: Into Thin Air On November 24, 1971, a passenger by the name of Dan Cooper boarded a plane and ordered a drink from the stewardess. Then, he demanded $200,000 in exchange for not setting off the bomb in his briefcase.

Chapter Two . . . 23 The Queen of Thieves Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum reigned for more than 25 years as New York City’s crime queen—until she ﬂed to Canada to escape the clutches of the Pinkerton detectives.

Chapter Three . . . 45 The Great Train Robbery A gang of 15 men attacked and robbed a Royal Mail train traveling between Glasgow and London during the early hours of August 8, 1963. The gang stole more than 2 million British pounds and hid out at a farm.

Chapter Four . . . 65 A Half Billion Dollar Heist In the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day in 1990, thieves used duct tape to secure the two guards on duty in the basement while they stole 13 pieces of art from a museum in Boston. The art, and the thieves, have never been found.

Chapter Five . . . 83 The Heist that Hurt an Entire Country Several thieves stole 140 priceless Maya, Aztec, and other artifacts from a Mexico City museum, a heist that the police thought could only have been pulled off by experts.

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Introduction Sensational Robberies and Robbers

We all know stealing is wrong. So why an entire book about thieves and thefts?

What drives a person to steal? Is it the thrill of the chase? Desperation? A love of puzzles? The men and women in this collection of stories have lots of different reasons for pulling off some of the biggest and most imaginative robberies in history.

The heists in this book required skill and ambition and intelligence. Bravery, too, because the thieves knew if they were caught, they’d spend a lot of time in prison. Some of the people you will read about ended up in jail. Some didn’t.

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The man who called himself D.B. Cooper was a planner. He knew what he was doing, right down to picking the right airplane to hijack. He knew how to jump from a speeding jet in the middle of the night over a dark and mountainous forest.

When he jumped, he had two knapsacks ﬁlled with cash that he had demanded from Northwest Airlines. The very next day, the police, FBI, and the military began a search that lasted more than 40 years and turned up only new mysteries. D.B. Cooper has never been found.

The men who robbed the Royal Mail train of millions of dollars in 1963 were planners, too. They planned the robbery for months. A gang member rode the train and studied how it was guarded. They bought a hideout and radios and a big truck to haul the money away after the robbery. They were quiet about it.

What later became known as the Great Train Robbery was so surprising people are still talking about it today, more than 50 years later.

What about Marm Mandelbaum? For more than 25 years, she led a gang that frustrated both

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the police and the famous Pinkerton National Detective Agency. They knew she was receiving thousands of dollars worth of jewelry and money stolen from the wealthiest people in New York City. But they could never catch her in the act.

You want stealthy? Take the gang who broke into Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and stole 13 worldfamous paintings worth millions. Then they disappeared. The gang was never captured and the precious art has never been found.

Art attracted another gang that broke into the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico. They stole rare gold, jade, turquoise, and obsidian artifacts from ancient Mexican civilizations, a collection worth more money than anyone could imagine. The police thought these crooks had to have been cultured and educated to want to steal these artifacts. However, the police were wrong—they were shocked by the people who turned out to have pulled off the heist.

Let’s take a walk through the seamy underworld of thieves.

1. November 24, 1971, late afternoon D.B. Cooper boards a flight from Portland to Seattle. Partway through the trip, he hijacks the plane.

2. Evening The hijacked flight lands in Seattle, where D.B. Cooper receives his money and parachutes and resumes his flight, which is now headed to Mexico.

3. Later evening D.B. Cooper jumps from the plane, never to be seen again.

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Chapter One D.B. Cooper: Into Thin Air

It was midafternoon at the busy Portland International Airport in Oregon on Wednesday, November 24, 1971.

A man carrying a black briefcase and wearing a dark suit walked up to the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines. He purchased a oneway ticket to Seattle, an hour’s ﬂight by jet over the mountainous and thick forest of the Paciﬁc Northwest. The man told the ticket agent his name was Dan Cooper.

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