The Antwerp Diamond Heist: $100 Million Undone by a Sandwich
How do you defeat a three-ton vault buried two floors underground, guarded by heat sensors, seismic detectors, Doppler radar and a magnetic field system, then walk away with over $100 million in diamo...
27 Jun 10min
Nazca Lines: How Ancient Peru Drew Art It Could Never See
Imagine dedicating your community's resources to a 1,300-kilometer masterpiece you can never fully see from the ground. That's the mind-bending contradiction of the Nazca Lines, etched into the Peruvi...
27 Jun 20min
The Princes in the Tower: England's 500-Year Cold Case
Two boys, heirs to the English throne, walk into a fortress to prepare for a coronation. The doors lock, the coronation is canceled, and they are never seen in public again. Their disappearance topple...
27 Jun 17min
The Cleveland Torso Murderer vs. Eliot Ness
America's most famous 1930s lawman, the man who took down organized crime, met his match in a faceless phantom who left dismembered bodies in plain sight of City Hall. The Cleveland torso murderer neu...
27 Jun 21min
Byford Dolphin: The Diving Disaster Physics Couldn't Forgive
Imagine living for weeks inside a sealed metal tube where the pressure is nine times heavier than the surface. Now imagine all that crushing pressure vanishing in a fraction of a second. On the Byford...
27 Jun 19min
Franklin's Lost Expedition: The Arctic's Frozen Cold Case
In 1845, 129 Victorian explorers sailed into the Arctic on two state-of-the-art ships with three years of food aboard, and simply never returned. It took nearly 170 years to find the ships and is stil...
27 Jun 22min
When a Database Forces You to Choose: A Name's Two Realities
Type a human name into the world's largest encyclopedia and instead of a life story you hit a surreal fork in the road. The Wikipedia page for Gloria Ramirez doesn't tell you who she was, it makes you...
27 Jun 17min
