Renoir Matisse Cezanne Vanish In Three Minute Heist

About this episode

The episode covers a daring art heist where thieves stole valuable paintings in under three minutes.

Four hooded thieves smashed into an Italian villa at 2:30 AM and stole paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth up to twenty million euros in under three minutes. They knew exactly which room to hit, grabbed the French Impressionist works straight off the walls, and vanished into the countryside before police arrived—leaving behind a fourth Renoir they didn't have time to take. Now investigators are analyzing surveillance footage while those stolen masterpieces sit somewhere, impossible to sell and too famous to ever display again.

People in this episode

Host: Charlie Cruz

Topics covered

• art theft
• true crime
• investigation
• surveillance
• masterpieces

Keywords

• art theft
• Renoir
• Cézanne
• Matisse
• heist
• surveillance footage
• investigation

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse

Places: Italian villa

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