Our man on the inside
5/8/202619 min
Some of the most ingenious crimes have been pulled off using one simple trick: someone with access. Andrew Rule explains.
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First 90 secondsAndrew Rule· Host0:00
[pensive music] If the difference between good crooks and bad thugs is inside information and shrewd preparation, then the mystery man in the high vis vest is one of the best in the badness business. Trimboli was somehow able to stay ahead of Australian authorities, whose clumsy and cack-handed pursuit of the country's most wanted man raised eyebrows, if not questions. I'm Andrew Rule, this is Life & Crimes. Today, we're going to talk about something that my colleague Mark Butler threw up. He said, it seems to him after many years of writing about crime, that inside information is something that links together a lot of big crimes and successful crimes, crooks that know how to get it and to use it are way ahead of the rest. And to illustrate that, I'm gonna tell the story of a jewel heist and then some other stories. The man who got away with the jewelry heist of the decade wanted to be invisible, so naturally, he wore a bright orange high visibility vest and one of the standard blue paper masks that were still common after the pandemic. Too easy. It was December the 4th, 2023, and even at 3:00 in the morning, a calm and confident guy