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William shatner:
A daring hijack
that ends in terror.
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A baffling heist
in which priceless paintings
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vanish into thin air.
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And an ingenious bank robbery
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with a time bomb
ticking down to zero.
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It seems whenever there is
something of great value,
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there are also thieves
who want to steal it.
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But what really motivates
someone to steal?
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Is it for the money?
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To show how smart they are?
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Or could a criminal mastermind
have other, more secret reasons
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for risking everything
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to pull off a seemingly
impossible caper?
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Well, that is what
we'll try and find out.
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on the night
before thanksgiving,
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northwest orient airlines
flight 305 is about
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to depart on a short flight
to seattle
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when a middle-aged man
dressed in a black suit
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and carrying
a black attaché case
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boards the plane.
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But this man
is not flying to celebrate
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the holiday
with friends or family.
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He has other plans.
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Geoffrey gray:
As the plane took off,
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he passed the stewardess a note.
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The note said, "I have a bomb.
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I would like you
to sit near me."
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and, at that point,
she could tell he was serious.
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Scott selby:
The stewardess asked him
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if she could see the bomb.
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He discreetly opens up
a briefcase
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and show what appears to her
to be a bomb.
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Shatner:
The hijacker demands $200,000
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and four parachutes
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to be delivered to him when
the plane lands in seattle,
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or he will blow up the airliner,
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killing everyone on board.
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Gray:
After the plane lands
in seattle,
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in comes the money
and the parachutes.
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And all the passengers
are escorted off the plane,
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and the hijacker ordered
the pilots to take off
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towards, of all places,
mexico city.
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Shatner:
The boeing 727 is refueled,
and a 4-person crew
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takes the hijacker
back into the air,
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headed for the border.
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But during the flight,
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the hijacker
puts on two parachutes,
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ties the money to his chest,
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and opens the aft stairs.
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No one knows exactly
when or where,
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but at some point,
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he leaps from the plane,
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and is never seen again.
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He was gone and vanished
into the night air.
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Larry levine: There was
a manhunt that was launched
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over a two-state area
where they had the fbi,
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other federal agencies,
the army, state police,
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and they were combing
that entire area,
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and they didn't find anything.
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Shatner:
According to
the plane's manifest,
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the hijacker's
listed name was "dan cooper,"
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but thanks
to a news miscommunication,
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he is more commonly
referred to as, "d.B. Cooper."
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however,
authorities soon learned
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that this name
was merely an alias,
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and the real identity
of the man was unknown.
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D.B. Cooper's escape
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was so ingenious
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that it was nearly
ten years before the fbi
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got a major break in the case.
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Gray:
One day in 1980,
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having a picnic
on the side of this river,
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a young boy found some money.
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But this just wasn't any money.
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This was the d.B. Cooper money.
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It turned up in this sandbar.
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The money was found in
a completely different place
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than the path of the plane.
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So what that means
is that the money
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didn't just
flutter to the ground
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and land into the sandbar.
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It means it had to get there
by some kind of means.
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Shatner:
But why would d.B. Cooper
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risk his life to steal $200,000
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only to bury
at least some of it in the sand?
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It seems to defy all logic.
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Unless d.B. Cooper
had another reason for doing
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the hijacking besides money.
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Diane birnholz: Having money
be the object of this case
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doesn't make sense
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because he had to have known
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that this money
would either be marked
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or it would be
somehow traceable.
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So, again, you have to wonder,
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what was the real agenda here?
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Levine:
You've got a man that
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jumped out
of a moving jet aircraft
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that was never found,
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and he was
like a perfect professional.
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And I suspect
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that he was
probably former military,
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possibly part of the cia,
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who had a mission
that needed to be carried out.
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Shatner:
It may sound like
a far-fetched conspiracy theory,
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but according
to some researchers,
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there is evidence
to suggest that d.B. Cooper
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had military training.
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For instance, cooper knew
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that the boeing 727-100
aircraft's aft staircase
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was a good platform
for a parachute jump.
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And, in fact, the cia
had used this same tactic
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with the same model airplane
to airdrop supplies
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and spies
during the vietnam war.
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Air america, which was
the cia's airline in vietnam,
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they used this same aircraft,
and d.B. Had to have had
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knowledge that the 727-100
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had the stairwell
that could be lowered,
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and it could be lowered
in flight.
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This wasn't common knowledge.
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And this is
something that somebody
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had to have already
had experience doing
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in order to pull it off.
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Shatner:
If d.B. Cooper
was trained by the cia,
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was the hijacking
something he did on his own,
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or could it have been a mission
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that he
was ordered to carry out?
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And, if so, for what purpose?
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Birnholz:
Back in 1971,
there was not much security
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in terms of airline travel.
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And there were
a lot of hijackings
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happening in the early '70s.
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Selby:
At the time you could have,
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say, as many guns as you wanted
in your duffle bag
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that you carried on,
on your person.
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And this meant,
of course, that people
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were hijacking planes
left and right.
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It was also
oftentimes political,
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so the terrorism of the 1970s
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in which
people would hijack a plane
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and then make demands
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for various political prisoners
to be freed,
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and then you take them
in the plane to cuba,
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and cuba would let you
live there for free
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as long as you wanted.
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Gray:
This was like a political act,
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hijackings. People would say,
"take me to cuba."
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so much so that
the faa and agency officials
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almost reconstructed a replica
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of the havana airport
in southern florida.
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The idea was if you got
hijacked to havana,
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you would just fly around
and then land at the fake site.
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Some people theorize
that the d.B. Cooper hijacking
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was really
some sort of false flag event
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to create
a hijacking spectacular enough
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that it will grab
everyone's attention
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and lead to
some regulation changes,
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so that these hijackings
can stop.
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And that actually is
what happened after d.B. Cooper,
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because the faa came out
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with all kinds
of new regulations.
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Levine:
I wouldn't put it past the cia
to have an agent
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like dan cooper
do whatever it took
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to raise public perception
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and public awareness
on airline security.
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I mean, when you
really look at it,
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who was hurt? Nobody.
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I mean, he had all the makings
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of an undercover operative.
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Gray:
The d.B. Cooper case--
what makes it noteworthy
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is that it's actually
the only unsolved skyjacking
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in the world.
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And what makes it
so hard to solve
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is that it's mysteries
and mysteries.
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And once you get inside those
mysteries, there's others.
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It's not just a story
about a hijacker.
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Shatner:
Was d.B. Cooper a cia agent
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whose mission
was conceived not by him
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but by his superiors?
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It's a fascinating theory
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and suggests
that the true mastermind
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behind a crime
can be hard to uncover.
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Like in the case of another,
more recent crime.
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A robbery involving $250,000,
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a ticking time bomb,
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and even more
unanswered questions.
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Shatner: It's an ordinary day
at a downtown pnc bank
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when 46-year-old brian wells
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gets in line to see the teller.
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But brian wells
is no ordinary customer.
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Jerry clark:
Mr. Wells had a protrusion
under the shirt
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that was described like someone
had a medical injury
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that was under his neck.
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Mr. Wells handed
the teller a note
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and said,
"this is a bank robbery,
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and I need $250,000 in cash."
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birnholz:
The demand note said there was
a bomb strapped around his neck.
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The teller informed brian wells
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that she couldn't access
the bank vault.
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And so she ended up giving him
about $8,000.
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Shatner:
Brian wells walked out
of the bank
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with only a fraction
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of the amount
of money that he had demanded.
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And he didn't make it very far
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because the bank called the
police the moment brian left.
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I get dispatched like any other
law enforcement officer.
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"hey, there's a bank robbery,
7200 peach,
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potential, uh,
explosive device used."
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after leaving the bank,
within five minutes mr. Wells
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is located and apprehended by
the pennsylvania state police,
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and he advises that he does
have a bomb under his shirt.
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We didn't know
if he was a hostage
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or if he was a cooperator.
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We had no idea.
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He said,
"I'm a pizza delivery driver.
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"I went to deliver pizzas,
and these people accosted me
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and made me wear the device
and rob the bank."
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I think it's
one of those real moments
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that you're thinking
it's probably a hoax.
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Because I can't tell you how
many hoax bank robberies
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I was at where people indicate
they have an explosive device,
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and it's a hoax.
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But you have to believe
that it's real.
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And we notified the bomb squad.
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His demeanor
was getting agitated
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as we were waiting
for the bomb squad.
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He was saying,
"hey, can I have a cigarette?
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This is heavy."
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but we still don't know
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if it's fake
or real at that point.
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Shatner:
At 3:18 p.M., without warning,
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the bomb detonated...
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...And brian wells
died instantly.
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Clark: I mean,
that's just some moment
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you'll never forget
in your lifetime.
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It's not uncommon
for a bank robber
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to say they have a device,
and it's going to go off.
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That's not uncommon.
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What's uncommon
is for it to actually happen.
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Brian was a very nice guy
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and, for his family,
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I will always be sorry
for what they went through,
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to see that happen on tv.
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But you immediately have
to gain control of the scene.
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So we did a search
of brian wells' vehicle.
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And inside we found
a series of notes.
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Nine total pages.
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Really bizarre notes
and way too detailed and complex
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like you couldn't believe.
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Some were made to the teller.
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Some were made to police
and what not to do.
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Some were made to brian wells
specifically, saying,
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"wells, after you rob the bank,
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"this is the series of stops
that you're to make
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to obtain keys to get
the device off of your neck."
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levine: It's like he was
on a scavenger hunt,
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and at each location,
he would find a key
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or a code that would be
one step closer
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for him be able
to remove the bomb from him.
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I mean, never in our history
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has a man walked into a bank
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with a bomb strapped
around his neck
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with orders to complete
a scavenger hunt
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to have the bomb removed.
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Clark:
The design of the collar
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and the box that the collar held
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was very unique.
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It was basically
like a large handcuff
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on the collar portion.
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Below the collar was a box.
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And the box held two pipe bombs
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and two kitchen timers.
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The bomb squad
said it was one of the most
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diabolical killing machines
they had ever seen.
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And that's because
it was one of a kind.
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It was made specifically
for this event.
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Initially, we had never seen
anything like this.
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We just had to start very much
in a methodical process,
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putting the pieces together.
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The criminal mastermind clearly
spent so much time doing this.
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The mastermind
is obviously delighting
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in playing a game
with the police,
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and then when
they can't solve it,
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that is a huge boost
to their own ego,
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and the longer
they could delay the police
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actually finding real answers,
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the more they would feel amazing
about themselves,
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and the mastermind
behind the brian wells case
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was clearly trying to do that.
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Shatner:
In search of answers,
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investigators
traced wells's movements
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earlier in the day.
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They went
to a nearby television tower
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where wells had made
his last pizza delivery.
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Clark:
He said when he went there
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and got to the back of the site,
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he was accosted
by a group of individuals
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who told him to rob the bank,
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and then he will have
notes to follow
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to get the keys
to get the device off.
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Shatner:
But when the cops
checked out the area,
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they found that
the tower was abandoned,
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and the trail went cold.
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That is,
until three weeks later,
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when local handyman
bill rothstein,
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who just happened to live
right next to the tv tower,
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called 911.
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Shatner:
The police determined
that the body
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in bill rothstein's freezer
was a man named james roden,
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the boyfriend
of marjorie diehl-armstrong,
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a woman who was all too familiar
to the local authorities.
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Levine:
Marjorie diehl-armstrong
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was almost like
a black widow of sorts
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where she left
a series of mysterious deaths,
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her husband and several
boyfriends, in the local area.
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Roden was a former lover,
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boyfriend of hers,
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and she ended up
killing the man with a shotgun.
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She asked rothstein
to dispose of the body for her,
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and he ends up leaving it
in his freezer in his garage.
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Clark:
After interviews
with marjorie diehl-armstrong
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and others, we determined
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that marjorie diehl-armstrong's
father had a lot of money.
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And she was the only child,
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and she wanted the money,
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and she wanted it now.
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So, the whole idea to rob
the bank for the money
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really came
from marjorie diehl-armstrong.
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Rob the bank to get the money
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to pay someone to kill her
father to get her inheritance.
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Shatner:
On November 1, 2010,
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marjorie diehl-armstrong
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was convicted
of armed bank robbery,
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conspiracy to commit
armed bank robbery,
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and of using a destructive
device in a crime.
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In the eyes of many,
these convictions confirmed
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that marjorie was the mastermind
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of the collar bomb robbery,
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and responsible
for the deaths of both
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brian wells and james roden.
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But was she acting alone?
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Not everyone agrees.
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Clark:
As soon as I met bill rothstein,
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the night he turned
in the body of james roden,
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after I interviewed him,
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I felt he was involved
in the wells case.
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It was at the pennsylvania
state police barracks,
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and bill rothstein
was in one of the rooms.
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And I walked in the room
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and I said, "hey, bill.
Jerry clark from the fbi.
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I'd like to talk
to you a second."
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and he said, "I'll talk to you,
but I need to tell you
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that I'm the smartest guy
in this room."
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he was so,
so unbelievably into himself
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and thought he was way smarter
than anybody else.
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From my perspective,
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the mastermind is
bill rothstein,
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because he masterminded
how to do this
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and the notes, and the bomb,
and making the bomb,
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and the intricacies
that went into it.
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Unfortunately for the case,
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bill rothstein died
in July of 2004.
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I think rothstein--
he knew he was dying of cancer,
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and I think he wanted
to go out saying,
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"I'm the smartest guy around,
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and I pulled one over
on law enforcement."
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shatner:
Was the collar bomb robbery
bill rothstein's attempt
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to pull off a crime that
would outsmart the police
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before he died?
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Unfortunately,
marjorie diehl-armstrong
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also died in 2017,
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so it's hard to say for sure.
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But there are
other robberies that,
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while the motivation
behind them may be more clear,
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are no less baffling.
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Like in the story of
the largest property theft
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in american history,
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a museum heist in which
priceless pieces of art
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were taken and, to this day,
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are still missing.
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Shatner:
Police officers
responding to a call
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arrive at
the isabella gardner museum
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and are shocked to discover
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that several works of art
have vanished into thin air.
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Wittman:
Many of the pieces
that they stole were paintings.
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Some were drawings
and some of the pieces
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they took were priceless.
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One of the pieces they stole
was a rembrandt seascape
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called the storm over
the sea of galilee.
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It's the only seascape
that rembrandt ever painted.
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Another piece was a vermeer.
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Uh, it's called the concert.
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Both of these pieces
are considered almost priceless.
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All told, 13 objects
of art were stolen.
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The total value, as of today,
is over five hundred million,
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making that the single
largest property crime
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in u.S. History.
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Shatner:
Police found the two
security guards on duty
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handcuffed and tied up
in the basement of the museum.
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After questioning the guards,
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they learned how the heist
had been carried out.
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Sherman:
Two thieves
dressed as police officers
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entered the museum at 1:24 a.M.
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00:20:27,393 --> 00:20:29,602
They approached
one of the security guards
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and told him that
he fit the description
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00:20:31,898 --> 00:20:33,272
of a suspect in another crime.
407
00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:35,942
They asked the guard
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to lift himself up
from the security desk
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so that they could get
a better look at him.
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00:20:40,448 --> 00:20:42,782
And when he did,
they grabbed him,
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they shackled him, and they
tied him up in the basement.
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Shatner:
Once the guards were subdued,
the two thieves
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spent the next 81 minutes
methodically stealing
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the 13 masterpieces
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and then disappeared
into the night.
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The fbi immediately launched
a full investigation,
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and there were several persons
of interest they looked into.
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00:21:04,013 --> 00:21:05,763
One of those persons
was none other
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than james "whitey" bulger,
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the leader of the notorious
winter hill gang.
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Sherman:
James "whitey" bulger
was the godfather
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00:21:14,482 --> 00:21:17,149
of boston crime in 1990
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when that heist occurred.
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So, immediately,
the fbi and the boston police
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pulled bulger in
and all of his associates
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and asked them,
"where are the paintings?"
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wittman:
Whitey bulger was intensely
questioned at that time
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about knowledge
about the gardner heist
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and claims he had no knowledge.
430
00:21:37,630 --> 00:21:39,380
So, there's no reason
to think he was involved
431
00:21:39,465 --> 00:21:40,881
because there was
no evidence of that.
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Shatner:
As the years went on
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and the fbi was unable
to charge anyone with the crime,
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museum officials offered
a $10 million reward
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00:21:50,226 --> 00:21:52,810
for information
leading directly to the return
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00:21:52,854 --> 00:21:55,187
of all 13 works of art.
437
00:21:55,273 --> 00:21:58,149
No one came forward,
438
00:21:58,234 --> 00:22:02,153
and the case continued
to stump investigators,
439
00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:04,613
but fbi agent robert wittman
440
00:22:04,699 --> 00:22:07,575
was determined
to solve the mystery.
441
00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:10,494
My active investigation
into the gardner heist
442
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started around 2005.
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00:22:14,042 --> 00:22:18,210
In 2005, I was contacted
by a parisian police officer
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00:22:18,296 --> 00:22:20,254
who told me that a frenchman
445
00:22:20,340 --> 00:22:23,758
uh, was interested in selling
the vermeer and the rembrandt.
446
00:22:24,886 --> 00:22:27,386
The thieves were actually
connected to two brothers
447
00:22:27,472 --> 00:22:30,306
from corsica
who were actually in prison.
448
00:22:30,391 --> 00:22:32,767
They were waiting
for the right time to sell
449
00:22:32,852 --> 00:22:34,852
these paintings
for the right amount of money
450
00:22:34,937 --> 00:22:36,854
that they could set up
their families for life
451
00:22:36,939 --> 00:22:39,190
because they were never
going to get out of jail.
452
00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:40,941
They wanted, uh, $30 million
453
00:22:41,027 --> 00:22:43,152
for the paintings to come back,
454
00:22:43,237 --> 00:22:46,280
uh, and I was willing
to pay it as far as being
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00:22:46,366 --> 00:22:49,033
a shady undercover,
uh, you know,
456
00:22:49,118 --> 00:22:50,951
criminal dealer
in the united states.
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00:22:52,121 --> 00:22:55,873
Shatner:
15 years after
the isabella gardner heist,
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00:22:55,917 --> 00:22:59,293
fbi agent robert wittman
believed that he was on the cusp
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00:22:59,379 --> 00:23:01,712
of recovering
the stolen works of art
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00:23:01,798 --> 00:23:05,591
and, hopefully, finding out
who originally took them.
461
00:23:05,676 --> 00:23:08,469
But before the corsican
brothers would sell him
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the gardner museum pieces,
463
00:23:10,723 --> 00:23:15,059
they wanted to unload
other artwork first.
464
00:23:15,144 --> 00:23:18,145
They decided to offer me,
uh, four more paintings
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00:23:18,231 --> 00:23:21,941
that were stolen from the museum
of fine arts in nice, France.
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00:23:22,026 --> 00:23:23,734
We took them up on their offer
467
00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:25,903
and were able
to recover those in marseilles.
468
00:23:25,988 --> 00:23:28,614
The problem was, though,
in that recovery,
469
00:23:28,699 --> 00:23:31,742
one of the french policemen
told the individuals
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00:23:31,828 --> 00:23:34,620
that, uh, I was an fbi agent.
471
00:23:34,705 --> 00:23:37,581
And, at that point,
we kind of lost the possibility
472
00:23:37,667 --> 00:23:40,501
of working with them to get the
rembrandt and the vermeer back.
473
00:23:40,586 --> 00:23:41,919
That was done.
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00:23:42,004 --> 00:23:43,671
It's very difficult
to infiltrate
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00:23:43,756 --> 00:23:45,089
corsican society.
476
00:23:45,174 --> 00:23:46,674
Uh, french police
have had a hard time
477
00:23:46,759 --> 00:23:48,300
with that for many, many years.
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00:23:48,386 --> 00:23:51,429
So, we can't go any further
with it at this point.
479
00:23:53,057 --> 00:23:56,559
Shatner:
Fbi agents believe
they came tantalizingly close
480
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to retrieving
two of the stolen paintings
481
00:23:59,147 --> 00:24:01,772
from the corsican brothers
only to have them
482
00:24:01,858 --> 00:24:04,191
slip through their fingers
at the last moment.
483
00:24:05,194 --> 00:24:08,946
But then, on March 18, 2013,
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00:24:09,031 --> 00:24:12,074
on the 23rd anniversary
of the heist,
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00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,619
the fbi made
a surprise announcement.
486
00:24:15,705 --> 00:24:18,456
Fbi agents developed
crucial pieces of evidence
487
00:24:18,541 --> 00:24:21,417
that confirm the identity
of those who entered the museum
488
00:24:21,502 --> 00:24:23,335
and others
associated with the theft
489
00:24:23,421 --> 00:24:25,087
who belonged
to a criminal organization.
490
00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:29,884
Shatner:
Although they claimed to know
the identity of the two thieves,
491
00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:32,219
the fbi refused to name them,
492
00:24:32,305 --> 00:24:35,681
and in 2015,
they further announced
493
00:24:35,766 --> 00:24:39,560
that both of them are dead.
494
00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:41,520
I think the fbi knows exactly
495
00:24:41,606 --> 00:24:44,356
who committed
the crimes in 1990,
496
00:24:44,442 --> 00:24:48,402
but they have no idea
where the art resides today.
497
00:24:49,447 --> 00:24:52,823
So I think the fbi wanted
to provide a carrot
498
00:24:52,909 --> 00:24:54,241
to the public to say,
499
00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:56,202
"hey, we're still working
on this case."
500
00:24:56,287 --> 00:25:00,289
they need the public's help
to solve this crime.
501
00:25:00,374 --> 00:25:02,333
Wittman:
I've heard some people have said
502
00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:04,710
that all 13 pieces
are sitting in somebody's attic
503
00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:06,045
two blocks from the museum.
504
00:25:06,130 --> 00:25:07,296
I don't believe that.
505
00:25:07,381 --> 00:25:08,672
I've never seen that happen.
506
00:25:08,758 --> 00:25:10,508
After doing investigations
507
00:25:10,551 --> 00:25:12,676
in art crime for 30 years,
508
00:25:12,762 --> 00:25:14,803
what I've found
is that when you have
509
00:25:14,889 --> 00:25:17,806
13 pieces out there, the
paintings have been divided up.
510
00:25:17,892 --> 00:25:18,933
They're in different places.
511
00:25:20,019 --> 00:25:22,353
Sherman:
Now it's been 30 years,
512
00:25:22,438 --> 00:25:25,105
and there has been
no sign of the artwork.
513
00:25:25,191 --> 00:25:27,525
And that's the enduring mystery
514
00:25:27,610 --> 00:25:29,652
of the isabella
gardner museum heist.
515
00:25:29,737 --> 00:25:33,239
Thirteen paintings
that vanished in thin air.
516
00:25:33,324 --> 00:25:37,868
And those empty frames
sit there like gravestones
517
00:25:37,954 --> 00:25:40,120
today in the museum.
518
00:25:44,418 --> 00:25:46,752
If the fbi knows
519
00:25:46,837 --> 00:25:49,171
who did
the isabella gardner heist,
520
00:25:49,257 --> 00:25:51,715
then why won't they name names?
521
00:25:51,801 --> 00:25:55,719
Could it be because
the perpetrators are dead?
522
00:25:56,847 --> 00:25:59,557
Or is there another,
even more incredible reason?
523
00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:03,811
One that won't be revealed
until the paintings
524
00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:07,064
are all recovered
safe and sound?
525
00:26:12,572 --> 00:26:16,824
Shatner:
Not all outrageous robberies
involve stealing
526
00:26:16,909 --> 00:26:18,617
large amounts of cash
527
00:26:18,703 --> 00:26:21,245
or valuable works of art.
528
00:26:21,330 --> 00:26:24,790
In recent years, there have
been an increasing number
529
00:26:24,875 --> 00:26:27,668
of so-called "cybercrimes,"
530
00:26:27,753 --> 00:26:31,213
in which criminals illegally
exploit computer systems
531
00:26:31,299 --> 00:26:35,342
to do everything from stealing
a single person's identity
532
00:26:35,428 --> 00:26:39,054
to manipulating
the global financial system.
533
00:26:40,182 --> 00:26:43,350
Jeff lanza:
Cybercrime
is a huge issue today.
534
00:26:43,436 --> 00:26:45,519
Companies are getting
their computers hacked into
535
00:26:45,605 --> 00:26:46,937
on a daily basis.
536
00:26:46,981 --> 00:26:48,606
Fraud is a regular part
of their lives.
537
00:26:49,734 --> 00:26:51,859
And every ceo
of a company knows that.
538
00:26:51,944 --> 00:26:55,362
And my biggest worry is not just
these individual cyberattacks
539
00:26:55,448 --> 00:26:57,948
but also cyber threats
on our infrastructure,
540
00:26:58,034 --> 00:27:01,118
the flow of money
on a nationwide basis.
541
00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:03,370
And what we've seen,
uh, over the years
542
00:27:03,456 --> 00:27:06,081
is an increasing, uh, capability
543
00:27:06,125 --> 00:27:08,042
of the cyber criminals
544
00:27:08,127 --> 00:27:10,753
to stay one step ahead
of law enforcement.
545
00:27:18,346 --> 00:27:21,221
Shatner:
32-year-old
sindri thor stefansson
546
00:27:21,307 --> 00:27:22,973
and a group of thieves
547
00:27:23,059 --> 00:27:24,933
break into
the advania data center,
548
00:27:24,977 --> 00:27:27,811
which is home to one
of the largest concentrations
549
00:27:27,855 --> 00:27:29,938
of computer power in the world,
550
00:27:29,982 --> 00:27:34,818
and steal 550 computers.
551
00:27:34,862 --> 00:27:38,989
The value of these devices
is about $2 million,
552
00:27:39,033 --> 00:27:43,160
but the bigger score
is not the computers themselves,
553
00:27:43,245 --> 00:27:46,955
but the information
stored inside them.
554
00:27:48,417 --> 00:27:52,336
What these devices could do
is mine bitcoin.
555
00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:55,964
And mining bitcoin can produce
556
00:27:56,008 --> 00:27:58,967
millions and millions
and millions of dollars.
557
00:27:59,053 --> 00:28:02,304
These computers
are basically like gold.
558
00:28:02,390 --> 00:28:04,181
But they're not mining gold.
559
00:28:04,225 --> 00:28:06,892
They're mining digits
and mathematical formulas,
560
00:28:06,977 --> 00:28:11,438
which, in the 21st century,
is something of value.
561
00:28:12,483 --> 00:28:14,608
Shatner:
Released in 2009,
562
00:28:14,694 --> 00:28:17,319
bitcoin was the first
of a new kind of money
563
00:28:17,363 --> 00:28:19,154
known as cryptocurrency,
564
00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:20,864
a form of digital cash
565
00:28:20,950 --> 00:28:24,034
that eliminates the need
for traditional banks.
566
00:28:25,037 --> 00:28:27,413
Unlike normal forms of currency
567
00:28:27,498 --> 00:28:30,290
like the dollar or the euro,
568
00:28:30,376 --> 00:28:32,334
the value of a bitcoin
569
00:28:32,420 --> 00:28:35,212
is not tied to any nation
or government.
570
00:28:36,257 --> 00:28:39,174
For sindri thor stefansson,
571
00:28:39,260 --> 00:28:43,220
the benefit of stealing
550 bitcoin computers
572
00:28:43,305 --> 00:28:45,639
was in the future bitcoins
573
00:28:45,725 --> 00:28:47,766
they could create.
574
00:28:47,852 --> 00:28:50,352
What you get for the risk
575
00:28:50,438 --> 00:28:55,065
is essentially
a money-printing machine.
576
00:28:55,109 --> 00:28:58,193
And the difference is
it's not printing cash,
577
00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:02,030
it's printing billions
of dollars' worth of bitcoins
578
00:29:02,074 --> 00:29:04,992
at a very rapid rate.
579
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:07,494
And all that information
580
00:29:07,580 --> 00:29:11,457
is encrypted and untraceable.
581
00:29:12,585 --> 00:29:16,462
It's the perfect crime
if you can pull it off.
582
00:29:17,631 --> 00:29:19,923
Shatner:
Less than a month
after the bitcoin heist,
583
00:29:20,009 --> 00:29:21,800
stefansson
was arrested and charged
584
00:29:21,886 --> 00:29:23,594
with stealing the computers.
585
00:29:25,639 --> 00:29:27,264
After confessing,
he was sentenced
586
00:29:27,349 --> 00:29:29,850
to four and a half years
in prison.
587
00:29:30,936 --> 00:29:33,228
But the case wasn't resolved
588
00:29:33,272 --> 00:29:37,232
because the stolen computers
were never recovered,
589
00:29:37,276 --> 00:29:40,569
and stefansson claims
to not even know where they are.
590
00:29:42,156 --> 00:29:45,449
There was a greater conspiracy
591
00:29:45,534 --> 00:29:48,076
behind this bitcoin heist,
592
00:29:48,162 --> 00:29:51,205
and he blames it on a guy
593
00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:53,916
whose identity
he's never revealed.
594
00:29:56,003 --> 00:29:59,087
Hochman:
Mr. Stefansson has said
that the idea of doing it
595
00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:00,923
did not come from him.
596
00:30:00,966 --> 00:30:02,966
But there's this mr. X
597
00:30:03,052 --> 00:30:07,137
that he mysteriously ascribes
the mastermind role to.
598
00:30:10,518 --> 00:30:14,436
There are a lot of wild theories
about who mr. X could be.
599
00:30:14,522 --> 00:30:17,523
One of them is
it could be satoshi nakamoto.
600
00:30:17,608 --> 00:30:19,316
Shatner:
By all accounts,
601
00:30:19,401 --> 00:30:22,611
"satoshi nakamoto" is an alias,
a pseudonym,
602
00:30:22,696 --> 00:30:25,280
for the shadowy creator
of bitcoin,
603
00:30:25,366 --> 00:30:28,283
whose real identity is unknown.
604
00:30:29,453 --> 00:30:31,662
Hochman:
We don't even know
if satoshi nakamoto
605
00:30:31,747 --> 00:30:34,790
is a he or a she or a they
606
00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,960
because satoshi nakamoto
has never come forward.
607
00:30:39,672 --> 00:30:43,257
Wittman:
In 2009, when this started,
608
00:30:43,342 --> 00:30:45,676
nakamoto was very enthusiastic
609
00:30:45,719 --> 00:30:48,637
about spreading his ideas,
610
00:30:48,681 --> 00:30:50,556
spreading out this code.
611
00:30:51,642 --> 00:30:54,726
This allowed him
to establish a new currency
612
00:30:54,812 --> 00:30:58,522
called bitcoin, which was
not government controlled.
613
00:30:59,525 --> 00:31:02,150
Around 2011, he just went dark.
614
00:31:02,236 --> 00:31:04,486
And no one knows who he is.
615
00:31:04,572 --> 00:31:06,905
Shatner:
There are those who believe
616
00:31:06,991 --> 00:31:11,326
that satoshi nakamoto and mr. X
are one and the same.
617
00:31:11,412 --> 00:31:14,872
And that this unidentified
person, or group of people,
618
00:31:14,957 --> 00:31:18,166
has been hoarding
and manipulating
619
00:31:18,252 --> 00:31:21,336
the value of bitcoin
from its inception
620
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:25,048
to the heist in iceland
right up to today.
621
00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:28,677
Hochman:
Every single state
and every single country
622
00:31:28,762 --> 00:31:32,848
is doing its best to rein in
the wild west of cryptocurrency.
623
00:31:32,933 --> 00:31:35,517
So the irs,
in the last couple of years,
624
00:31:35,603 --> 00:31:38,061
is very much stepping up
its enforcement
625
00:31:38,105 --> 00:31:40,647
to go after people
who are not reporting
626
00:31:40,733 --> 00:31:42,900
their
cryptocurrency transactions.
627
00:31:43,944 --> 00:31:45,903
Because they, by themselves,
628
00:31:45,946 --> 00:31:49,239
could crash the market
or they could grow the market.
629
00:31:51,452 --> 00:31:55,454
Lanza:
Cyber fraud-- it's one of the
top three priorities of the fbi.
630
00:31:55,539 --> 00:31:57,497
And in order to really
get ahead of this problem,
631
00:31:57,583 --> 00:32:00,500
we need to be thinking
more in an innovative way, uh,
632
00:32:00,586 --> 00:32:03,086
just as the criminals
do in the cyber world.
633
00:32:03,130 --> 00:32:04,963
Ebner:
Somewhere on this planet,
634
00:32:05,049 --> 00:32:07,758
those computers are humming
635
00:32:07,801 --> 00:32:11,219
and they are creating
bitcoin revenue
636
00:32:11,305 --> 00:32:14,181
for somebody somewhere.
637
00:32:15,225 --> 00:32:18,268
Is it just some amorphous mr. X?
638
00:32:18,354 --> 00:32:20,395
We don't know.
639
00:32:21,398 --> 00:32:26,151
But those 550 computers--
640
00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:28,570
I can guarantee you
641
00:32:28,656 --> 00:32:31,949
they didn't wind up
in a waste dump somewhere.
642
00:32:35,871 --> 00:32:38,205
Whoever this mysterious
"mr. X" may be,
643
00:32:38,290 --> 00:32:41,625
it appears that, for him,
crime does pay,
644
00:32:41,669 --> 00:32:44,127
at least in bitcoin.
645
00:32:44,171 --> 00:32:46,630
But is money, in all its forms,
646
00:32:46,674 --> 00:32:49,424
the ultimate drug
for the criminal mind?
647
00:32:50,427 --> 00:32:52,260
Or are there some things
648
00:32:52,346 --> 00:32:55,180
that are even more enticing?
649
00:32:55,265 --> 00:32:57,975
Perhaps the answer
can be found by examining
650
00:32:58,018 --> 00:33:01,019
the case of the man
who stole the brain
651
00:33:01,105 --> 00:33:04,272
of the world's smartest man,
652
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:06,066
albert einstein.
653
00:33:15,619 --> 00:33:18,161
Shatner:
Albert einstein,
the celebrated physicist
654
00:33:18,247 --> 00:33:21,498
considered to be
the father of modern physics,
655
00:33:21,583 --> 00:33:23,500
dies at the age of 76.
656
00:33:25,546 --> 00:33:27,838
While einstein's wish
is to be cremated,
657
00:33:27,923 --> 00:33:32,050
princeton hospital
chief pathologist thomas harvey
658
00:33:32,136 --> 00:33:35,220
must first determine
the cause of death.
659
00:33:35,305 --> 00:33:37,264
But with
the body of albert einstein
660
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:39,016
on the autopsy table,
661
00:33:39,101 --> 00:33:43,520
harvey's interest
is drawn to something else.
662
00:33:43,605 --> 00:33:45,439
He wanted to find out
663
00:33:45,524 --> 00:33:48,859
what made albert einstein tick.
664
00:33:50,404 --> 00:33:53,030
And he sees,
"wow, there's the source
665
00:33:53,115 --> 00:33:55,115
of it all. The brain."
666
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,368
lepore:
There was something about
the brain that fascinated him.
667
00:33:58,454 --> 00:34:00,370
And with
no small amount of effort,
668
00:34:00,456 --> 00:34:02,706
he cut the skull,
removed the brain,
669
00:34:02,791 --> 00:34:04,541
perfused it with formaldehyde,
670
00:34:04,626 --> 00:34:07,210
and the next morning
the new york times says
671
00:34:07,254 --> 00:34:10,630
that thomas harvey has preserved
the brain for scientific study.
672
00:34:11,717 --> 00:34:13,550
Shatner:
Thomas harvey believed
673
00:34:13,635 --> 00:34:16,261
that somewhere
within einstein's brain
674
00:34:16,346 --> 00:34:19,222
was the secret to his genius.
675
00:34:20,267 --> 00:34:23,185
So he persuaded einstein's son,
hans albert,
676
00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:27,230
to let him do a study
of his father's brain.
677
00:34:28,358 --> 00:34:30,317
Lepore:
Hans albert
and einstein's executor
678
00:34:30,402 --> 00:34:32,444
came down
to speak to harvey about it.
679
00:34:32,529 --> 00:34:37,157
And harvey impressed
upon them just the uniqueness
680
00:34:37,242 --> 00:34:40,327
and criticality
of looking at einstein's brain
681
00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:43,080
as a way
of approaching how people
682
00:34:43,165 --> 00:34:45,082
of intellect and genius think.
683
00:34:47,127 --> 00:34:51,296
Shatner:
Harvey took more than a dozen
photos of einstein's brain,
684
00:34:51,381 --> 00:34:54,508
dissected it,
and shaved off thin slices
685
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:56,301
for microscopic study.
686
00:34:57,387 --> 00:34:59,846
But years passed,
and harvey never published
687
00:34:59,932 --> 00:35:02,766
any papers
or scientific observations.
688
00:35:02,851 --> 00:35:05,018
He also never returned
the brain,
689
00:35:05,104 --> 00:35:06,770
but, rather, stole it
690
00:35:06,814 --> 00:35:08,939
and kept it for himself
691
00:35:09,024 --> 00:35:11,942
with no intention
of ever giving it back.
692
00:35:12,986 --> 00:35:14,903
Once thomas harvey
had the brain,
693
00:35:14,988 --> 00:35:18,532
he didn't
let it out of his sight.
694
00:35:18,617 --> 00:35:22,119
He left his position
as chief of pathology
695
00:35:22,204 --> 00:35:23,620
at princeton hospital,
696
00:35:23,664 --> 00:35:26,623
and he headed out
to the midwest,
697
00:35:26,708 --> 00:35:28,375
and he went
into general practice.
698
00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:30,502
But the brain
was always with him
699
00:35:30,587 --> 00:35:34,297
stored in two large glass jars
700
00:35:34,341 --> 00:35:36,633
and in cardboard boxes.
701
00:35:37,678 --> 00:35:39,886
Ebner:
There's been a historical trend
702
00:35:39,972 --> 00:35:43,890
of examining the brains
or the gray matter
703
00:35:43,976 --> 00:35:47,686
of geniuses to try and find out
704
00:35:47,771 --> 00:35:50,147
what makes them tick.
705
00:35:51,191 --> 00:35:54,651
For instance,
the brain institute in moscow
706
00:35:54,736 --> 00:35:58,530
has kept the brains
of dictator vladimir lenin
707
00:35:58,615 --> 00:36:02,492
and around 200
russian scientists
708
00:36:02,578 --> 00:36:05,704
on a dusty shelf for years
hoping that
709
00:36:05,789 --> 00:36:07,873
they may, too, one day
710
00:36:07,958 --> 00:36:11,418
unlock the secrets of genius.
711
00:36:11,503 --> 00:36:15,172
But there's a fine line
712
00:36:15,257 --> 00:36:18,175
between science
and grave robbing.
713
00:36:19,219 --> 00:36:22,721
Harvey got a little bit
greedy here, because
714
00:36:22,806 --> 00:36:26,516
not only did he swipe
einstein's brain,
715
00:36:26,602 --> 00:36:30,854
it was basically a memento
for him to have on his shelf.
716
00:36:30,939 --> 00:36:34,274
You'd think that the next
of kin might have something
717
00:36:34,359 --> 00:36:36,276
to say about it.
718
00:36:36,361 --> 00:36:39,613
Lepore:
Harvey segued from his job,
719
00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:41,781
which is to determine the cause
of death of a patient
720
00:36:41,867 --> 00:36:43,742
at princeton hospital,
and he did that
721
00:36:43,827 --> 00:36:46,119
when he completed the autopsy.
722
00:36:46,205 --> 00:36:48,121
And at that point,
all we know is that
723
00:36:48,207 --> 00:36:50,540
he didn't want to hand it over.
And that's why he said,
724
00:36:50,584 --> 00:36:52,709
"I keep einstein's brain.
725
00:36:52,794 --> 00:36:54,878
I'm the pathologist,
and I'm studying it."
726
00:36:56,882 --> 00:37:00,300
shatner:
Two decades after the death
of albert einstein,
727
00:37:00,385 --> 00:37:02,886
the rest of his body
had been cremated,
728
00:37:02,971 --> 00:37:04,763
his wife and children
had passed away,
729
00:37:04,848 --> 00:37:07,390
and the world
had all but forgotten
730
00:37:07,476 --> 00:37:10,393
about what happened
to the famed physicist's brain.
731
00:37:11,688 --> 00:37:14,606
But that all changed in 1978,
732
00:37:14,691 --> 00:37:16,942
when a young reporter
named steven levy
733
00:37:17,027 --> 00:37:19,819
tracked down the whereabouts
of einstein's brain
734
00:37:19,905 --> 00:37:21,571
for a magazine article
735
00:37:21,615 --> 00:37:23,865
and discovered
that thomas harvey
736
00:37:23,951 --> 00:37:26,993
was still in possession
of einstein's brain.
737
00:37:28,038 --> 00:37:29,955
Ebner:
Levy wrote about this,
738
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,374
and all of a sudden,
739
00:37:32,459 --> 00:37:35,585
it brought renewed interest
740
00:37:35,671 --> 00:37:39,256
to what in the hell was going on
with albert einstein's brain.
741
00:37:39,299 --> 00:37:42,217
So the medical community
was scratching their heads.
742
00:37:42,261 --> 00:37:45,095
They were like,
"okay, he's got the brain,
743
00:37:45,180 --> 00:37:47,722
"in pieces as it were.
744
00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:49,432
Let's have a closer look."
745
00:37:49,476 --> 00:37:51,268
shatner:
As it turns out,
746
00:37:51,353 --> 00:37:53,979
when harvey gave back the
dissected pieces of the brain,
747
00:37:54,064 --> 00:37:56,648
scientists made
a remarkable discovery.
748
00:37:57,734 --> 00:38:01,945
A discovery that could
finally reveal the secret
749
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behind einstein's genius.
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Shatner:
Neurologist frederick lepore
is given the rare opportunity
751
00:38:17,629 --> 00:38:22,132
to photograph the remains
of einstein's brain.
752
00:38:23,635 --> 00:38:26,136
The pathologist
brought out two jars
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00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:29,806
containing little
gauze-wrapped cubes
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which were the remaining
sections of einstein's brain.
755
00:38:33,729 --> 00:38:37,105
That's a very interesting
and provocative moment.
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00:38:38,108 --> 00:38:39,941
How did that inanimate
brain tissue
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00:38:40,027 --> 00:38:42,360
develop world-shaking theories?
758
00:38:42,446 --> 00:38:44,612
And the process begins
759
00:38:44,698 --> 00:38:46,489
by looking at the anatomy
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00:38:46,533 --> 00:38:48,825
and trying to see
if it can give us
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00:38:48,910 --> 00:38:51,161
some answers to the question of,
762
00:38:51,246 --> 00:38:54,164
"why was einstein
such a profound genius?"
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00:38:56,251 --> 00:38:59,002
shatner:
What made
albert einstein different?
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It's a question
that thomas harvey first asked
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00:39:01,923 --> 00:39:05,467
in 1955
and one that led him to steal
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einstein's brain in hopes
of getting an answer.
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00:39:09,931 --> 00:39:11,973
I had the opportunity
to meet with thomas harvey
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00:39:12,059 --> 00:39:15,602
in retirement
in the spring of 2000.
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He had never
really had given up that dream
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00:39:19,024 --> 00:39:20,857
of trying to,
771
00:39:20,901 --> 00:39:22,859
from every possible avenue,
772
00:39:22,903 --> 00:39:24,694
look at this piece of tissue
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00:39:24,738 --> 00:39:26,863
and try to come up with answers
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00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:29,199
as to einstein's genius.
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00:39:30,285 --> 00:39:33,453
Shatner:
In 2007, thomas harvey died
776
00:39:33,538 --> 00:39:35,497
of a cerebral hemorrhage.
777
00:39:35,540 --> 00:39:38,208
Ironically,
because thomas harvey
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00:39:38,293 --> 00:39:42,212
stole einstein's brain and
preserved it for so many years,
779
00:39:42,297 --> 00:39:44,547
scientists had the opportunity
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00:39:44,591 --> 00:39:47,175
to examine it
with modern technology.
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00:39:48,303 --> 00:39:51,137
And when they did,
they discovered that the brain
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00:39:51,223 --> 00:39:55,350
of this visionary genius
was, in fact, different.
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00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:58,895
John martin:
Neuroscientists found
that einstein's brain
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had enlarged parietal lobes.
785
00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,900
And, in addition, they found
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that part of the parietal lobe,
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00:40:05,654 --> 00:40:08,029
instead of having
all these grooves,
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it was sort of an enlarged,
flattened area.
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Uh, and so it looked
quite remarkable.
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00:40:16,123 --> 00:40:18,623
Lepore:
The parietal lobe
is an area of the brain
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00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:21,376
that helps us with
visuospatial recognition,
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00:40:21,461 --> 00:40:24,629
and neuropathologist's
conclusion
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00:40:24,714 --> 00:40:27,340
was the exceptional brain
of albert einstein
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00:40:27,426 --> 00:40:30,135
was due
to the parietal lobe being
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00:40:30,220 --> 00:40:32,929
anatomically different
from the human norm.
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00:40:32,973 --> 00:40:35,557
Ebner:
I think that thomas harvey
797
00:40:35,642 --> 00:40:38,601
might have been pleased
that by just
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00:40:38,645 --> 00:40:40,854
hanging on to that brain
for so many years
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00:40:40,939 --> 00:40:43,523
and having it looked at
by professionals,
800
00:40:43,608 --> 00:40:47,110
some sort of credibility
had rubbed off on him,
801
00:40:47,154 --> 00:40:48,987
so that he, in turn,
802
00:40:49,072 --> 00:40:51,448
could become more respected
803
00:40:51,533 --> 00:40:54,117
as a man of science.
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00:40:55,162 --> 00:40:57,078
Levine:
People want to stand out.
805
00:40:57,122 --> 00:40:59,247
They want recognition.
806
00:40:59,332 --> 00:41:01,124
And the bigger the crime,
807
00:41:01,209 --> 00:41:04,335
your notoriety of committing
that crime lasts forever.
808
00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:07,422
Ho: In understanding
the criminal mind,
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00:41:07,507 --> 00:41:09,466
it's a certain type
of psychological profile
810
00:41:09,509 --> 00:41:11,301
that makes people feel like
they can sort of
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00:41:11,386 --> 00:41:13,178
not follow society's rules.
812
00:41:13,263 --> 00:41:15,305
They kind of buck authority,
813
00:41:15,348 --> 00:41:17,891
but they have their own
authority, and their authority
814
00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:20,477
is their internal sense
of right and wrong.
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00:41:23,648 --> 00:41:26,483
Shatner:
It seems that
no matter how hard we try,
816
00:41:26,568 --> 00:41:29,152
we just can't seem to figure
out the criminal mind.
817
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,655
But, then again,
do we really want to?
818
00:41:32,741 --> 00:41:36,367
Because if we could truly
put ourselves in the shoes
819
00:41:36,453 --> 00:41:39,120
of someone who is always
820
00:41:39,206 --> 00:41:44,125
scheming, and plotting,
and thrill-seeking,
821
00:41:44,169 --> 00:41:47,837
then we might just be
tempted to take a chance
822
00:41:47,923 --> 00:41:51,341
and carry out
a daring heist of our own.
823
00:41:52,928 --> 00:41:54,511
So perhaps it's better for us
824
00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:58,056
that the mind of
a master criminal remains...
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00:41:58,141 --> 00:42:00,266
Unexplained.
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