These Expensive Jewelry Heists Will Make You Lose All Hope In Security Systems

1983 Heathrow Airport – $39M

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For this heist, the robbers plotted on stealing cash, but when they got inside the Brinks-MAT warehouse located at the Heathrow Airport, they found tons of gold bullion. With inside help (one of the guards was related to the criminals) they managed to raid the warehouse quickly and tie up the other guards.

Because they didn’t know about the gold, they didn’t have a big enough vehicle but did the best they could. Instead of the planned five minutes, it ended up taking two hours. An added bonus was that they found uncut and cut diamonds. The cops had the relative as their prime suspect, and he ratted out the rest in a heartbeat. The gold, however, was never found.