Perfect Crime Stories
Theft in Gardner Museum Art: On 18th March, 1990, two policemen came to the door of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and said that they had received a call from the museum, and without questioning or asking for ID the security let them in. The minute they stepped in they told the guard to call the other guard. 1) _________. The criminals who disguised themselves as police officers stole 13 paintings which were worth one billion dollars. They stole precious paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Degas. 2) ______________.
300 Million Yen Robbery in Japan: In 1968, the manager of a bank in Japan was receiving threats. The person who threatened him sent notes to him saying that he was going to burn his house if he didn’t give 300 million yen. While a bank van that belonged to the Nihon Shintaku Ginko Bank was transporting money, a policeman asked the driver to pull over and told him that there was a bomb placed underneath the van. The four men got out of the van in panic. The officer started to investigate the van. 3) _____________. The four men started to run away thinking that the car would blow up. The officer jumped into the van and drove as fast as he could. The criminal has never been found even though there were 120 pieces of evidence, the composite picture of the suspect and 170,000 police investigating the event.
An Unsolved Crime in US Aviation History: In November, 1971, a passenger named Dan Cooper boarded a plane that would fly to Seattle. He was wearing a raincoat, dark glasses and carrying a suitcase. 4) ____________. It said that he had a bomb in his suitcase and he would use it if necessary, he wanted her to sit next to him. To make sure that she didn’t do something wrong, he opened his briefcase and showed her what was inside. He wanted 200,000 dollars and 4 parachutes to be delivered to him in Seattle. When the plane landed, he let the passengers go, but kept the pilot, co-pilot and the flight attendant as hostages. 5) ______________. The plane was at 10,000 feet when he jumped out.