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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,793 --> 00:00:10,103 WILLIAM SHATNER: A daring hijack that ends in terror. 2 00:00:10,206 --> 00:00:13,689 A baffling heist in which priceless paintings 3 00:00:13,758 --> 00:00:15,413 vanish into thin air. 4 00:00:17,655 --> 00:00:20,551 And an ingenious bank robbery 5 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:24,413 with a time bomb ticking down to zero. 6 00:00:27,551 --> 00:00:30,965 It seems whenever there is something of great value, 7 00:00:31,068 --> 00:00:33,344 there are also thieves who want to steal it. 8 00:00:33,413 --> 00:00:36,448 But what really motivates someone to steal? 9 00:00:36,551 --> 00:00:37,896 Is it for the money? 10 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,448 To show how smart they are? 11 00:00:40,517 --> 00:00:44,655 Or could a criminal mastermind have other, more secret reasons 12 00:00:44,724 --> 00:00:46,482 for risking everything 13 00:00:46,586 --> 00:00:49,172 to pull off a seemingly impossible caper? 14 00:00:49,241 --> 00:00:53,172 Well, that is what we'll try and find out. 15 00:00:53,241 --> 00:00:55,172 ♪ ♪ 16 00:01:13,206 --> 00:01:16,275 On the night before Thanksgiving, 17 00:01:16,379 --> 00:01:19,206 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 is about 18 00:01:19,275 --> 00:01:21,448 to depart on a short flight to Seattle 19 00:01:21,551 --> 00:01:24,379 when a middle-aged man dressed in a black suit 20 00:01:24,482 --> 00:01:26,896 and carrying a black attaché case 21 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:28,551 boards the plane. 22 00:01:28,655 --> 00:01:31,000 But this man is not flying to celebrate 23 00:01:31,103 --> 00:01:33,206 the holiday with friends or family. 24 00:01:33,310 --> 00:01:35,413 He has other plans. 25 00:01:36,379 --> 00:01:38,689 GEOFFREY GRAY: As the plane took off, 26 00:01:38,793 --> 00:01:41,379 he passed the stewardess a note. 27 00:01:41,482 --> 00:01:44,068 The note said, "I have a bomb. 28 00:01:44,137 --> 00:01:46,034 I would like you to sit near me." 29 00:01:46,103 --> 00:01:48,862 And, at that point, she could tell he was serious. 30 00:01:48,931 --> 00:01:50,827 SCOTT SELBY: The stewardess asked him 31 00:01:50,896 --> 00:01:51,862 if she could see the bomb. 32 00:01:51,965 --> 00:01:53,896 He discreetly opens up a briefcase 33 00:01:53,965 --> 00:01:57,137 and show what appears to her to be a bomb. 34 00:01:57,241 --> 00:02:00,206 SHATNER: The hijacker demands $200,000 35 00:02:00,310 --> 00:02:02,482 and four parachutes 36 00:02:02,551 --> 00:02:06,034 to be delivered to him when the plane lands in Seattle, 37 00:02:06,137 --> 00:02:09,724 or he will blow up the airliner, 38 00:02:09,827 --> 00:02:12,241 killing everyone on board. 39 00:02:12,344 --> 00:02:14,482 GRAY: After the plane lands in Seattle, 40 00:02:14,586 --> 00:02:17,758 in comes the money and the parachutes. 41 00:02:17,862 --> 00:02:20,965 And all the passengers are escorted off the plane, 42 00:02:21,034 --> 00:02:24,000 and the hijacker ordered the pilots to take off 43 00:02:24,068 --> 00:02:26,689 towards, of all places, Mexico City. 44 00:02:27,724 --> 00:02:31,206 SHATNER: The Boeing 727 is refueled, and a 4-person crew 45 00:02:31,310 --> 00:02:34,241 takes the hijacker back into the air, 46 00:02:34,310 --> 00:02:36,000 headed for the border. 47 00:02:36,103 --> 00:02:38,068 But during the flight, 48 00:02:38,172 --> 00:02:40,000 the hijacker puts on two parachutes, 49 00:02:40,103 --> 00:02:43,586 ties the money to his chest, 50 00:02:43,655 --> 00:02:45,413 and opens the aft stairs. 51 00:02:47,034 --> 00:02:49,896 No one knows exactly when or where, 52 00:02:49,965 --> 00:02:53,103 but at some point, 53 00:02:53,172 --> 00:02:56,137 he leaps from the plane, 54 00:02:56,241 --> 00:02:58,689 and is never seen again. 55 00:02:59,655 --> 00:03:03,275 He was gone and vanished into the night air. 56 00:03:04,275 --> 00:03:07,517 LARRY LEVINE: There was a manhunt that was launched 57 00:03:07,586 --> 00:03:11,655 over a two-state area where they had the FBI, 58 00:03:11,724 --> 00:03:14,413 other federal agencies, the army, state police, 59 00:03:14,482 --> 00:03:17,034 and they were combing that entire area, 60 00:03:17,103 --> 00:03:18,931 and they didn't find anything. 61 00:03:20,172 --> 00:03:22,724 SHATNER: According to the plane's manifest, 62 00:03:22,827 --> 00:03:26,137 the hijacker's listed name was "Dan Cooper," 63 00:03:26,241 --> 00:03:28,862 but thanks to a news miscommunication, 64 00:03:28,931 --> 00:03:33,068 he is more commonly referred to as, "D.B. Cooper." 65 00:03:33,137 --> 00:03:36,000 However, authorities soon learned 66 00:03:36,103 --> 00:03:38,241 that this name was merely an alias, 67 00:03:38,310 --> 00:03:40,896 and the real identity of the man was unknown. 68 00:03:42,206 --> 00:03:44,551 D.B. Cooper's escape 69 00:03:44,620 --> 00:03:46,482 was so ingenious 70 00:03:46,551 --> 00:03:49,241 that it was nearly ten years before the FBI 71 00:03:49,344 --> 00:03:51,793 got a major break in the case. 72 00:03:52,931 --> 00:03:54,586 GRAY: One day in 1980, 73 00:03:54,655 --> 00:03:57,379 having a picnic on the side of this river, 74 00:03:57,482 --> 00:04:00,034 a young boy found some money. 75 00:04:00,103 --> 00:04:01,896 But this just wasn't any money. 76 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,896 This was the D.B. Cooper money. 77 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,931 It turned up in this sandbar. 78 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,758 The money was found in a completely different place 79 00:04:08,862 --> 00:04:11,206 than the path of the plane. 80 00:04:11,310 --> 00:04:13,620 So what that means is that the money 81 00:04:13,724 --> 00:04:15,862 didn't just flutter to the ground 82 00:04:15,965 --> 00:04:17,517 and land into the sandbar. 83 00:04:17,586 --> 00:04:20,758 It means it had to get there by some kind of means. 84 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:23,896 SHATNER: But why would D.B. Cooper 85 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,586 risk his life to steal $200,000 86 00:04:27,689 --> 00:04:31,448 only to bury at least some of it in the sand? 87 00:04:31,551 --> 00:04:33,862 It seems to defy all logic. 88 00:04:33,931 --> 00:04:38,310 Unless D.B. Cooper had another reason for doing 89 00:04:38,413 --> 00:04:40,655 the hijacking besides money. 90 00:04:40,758 --> 00:04:43,137 DIANE BIRNHOLZ: Having money be the object of this case 91 00:04:43,241 --> 00:04:45,000 doesn't make sense 92 00:04:45,103 --> 00:04:46,620 because he had to have known 93 00:04:46,724 --> 00:04:48,931 that this money would either be marked 94 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,827 or it would be somehow traceable. 95 00:04:51,896 --> 00:04:53,448 So, again, you have to wonder, 96 00:04:53,551 --> 00:04:55,896 what was the real agenda here? 97 00:04:56,758 --> 00:04:59,000 LEVINE: You've got a man that 98 00:04:59,103 --> 00:05:01,758 jumped out of a moving jet aircraft 99 00:05:01,827 --> 00:05:03,620 that was never found, 100 00:05:03,689 --> 00:05:07,172 and he was like a perfect professional. 101 00:05:07,241 --> 00:05:10,241 And I suspect 102 00:05:10,344 --> 00:05:13,448 that he was probably former military, 103 00:05:13,551 --> 00:05:16,965 possibly part of the CIA, 104 00:05:17,068 --> 00:05:19,896 who had a mission that needed to be carried out. 105 00:05:21,758 --> 00:05:25,137 SHATNER: It may sound like a far-fetched conspiracy theory, 106 00:05:25,241 --> 00:05:27,862 but according to some researchers, 107 00:05:27,965 --> 00:05:30,931 there is evidence to suggest that D.B. Cooper 108 00:05:31,034 --> 00:05:32,482 had military training. 109 00:05:32,551 --> 00:05:35,586 For instance, Cooper knew 110 00:05:35,689 --> 00:05:39,413 that the Boeing 727-100 aircraft's aft staircase 111 00:05:39,517 --> 00:05:42,586 was a good platform for a parachute jump. 112 00:05:42,689 --> 00:05:47,827 And, in fact, the CIA had used this same tactic 113 00:05:47,896 --> 00:05:52,241 with the same model airplane to airdrop supplies 114 00:05:52,344 --> 00:05:55,482 and spies during the Vietnam War. 115 00:05:55,551 --> 00:05:59,896 Air America, which was the CIA's airline in Vietnam, 116 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,310 they used this same aircraft, and D.B. had to have had 117 00:06:04,379 --> 00:06:07,758 knowledge that the 727-100 118 00:06:07,827 --> 00:06:10,206 had the stairwell that could be lowered, 119 00:06:10,310 --> 00:06:12,586 and it could be lowered in flight. 120 00:06:12,689 --> 00:06:14,482 This wasn't common knowledge. 121 00:06:14,586 --> 00:06:18,689 And this is something that somebody 122 00:06:18,758 --> 00:06:21,379 had to have already had experience doing 123 00:06:21,448 --> 00:06:23,068 in order to pull it off. 124 00:06:24,448 --> 00:06:28,379 SHATNER: If D.B. Cooper was trained by the CIA, 125 00:06:28,482 --> 00:06:31,413 was the hijacking something he did on his own, 126 00:06:31,482 --> 00:06:33,586 or could it have been a mission 127 00:06:33,655 --> 00:06:35,620 that he was ordered to carry out? 128 00:06:35,689 --> 00:06:39,689 And, if so, for what purpose? 129 00:06:39,793 --> 00:06:43,172 BIRNHOLZ: Back in 1971, there was not much security 130 00:06:43,275 --> 00:06:45,068 in terms of airline travel. 131 00:06:45,172 --> 00:06:47,000 And there were a lot of hijackings 132 00:06:47,103 --> 00:06:48,827 happening in the early '70s. 133 00:06:49,724 --> 00:06:51,793 SELBY: At the time you could have, 134 00:06:51,896 --> 00:06:54,793 say, as many guns as you wanted in your duffle bag 135 00:06:54,862 --> 00:06:57,448 that you carried on, on your person. 136 00:06:57,517 --> 00:06:59,275 And this meant, of course, that people 137 00:06:59,344 --> 00:07:01,793 were hijacking planes left and right. 138 00:07:01,896 --> 00:07:04,586 It was also oftentimes political, 139 00:07:04,655 --> 00:07:07,413 so the terrorism of the 1970s 140 00:07:07,517 --> 00:07:09,586 in which people would hijack a plane 141 00:07:09,689 --> 00:07:11,344 and then make demands 142 00:07:11,413 --> 00:07:13,344 for various political prisoners to be freed, 143 00:07:13,413 --> 00:07:15,862 and then you take them in the plane to Cuba, 144 00:07:15,931 --> 00:07:18,068 and Cuba would let you live there for free 145 00:07:18,172 --> 00:07:20,344 as long as you wanted. 146 00:07:20,413 --> 00:07:22,724 GRAY: This was like a political act, 147 00:07:22,827 --> 00:07:25,310 hijackings. People would say, "Take me to Cuba." 148 00:07:25,413 --> 00:07:29,586 So much so that the FAA and agency officials 149 00:07:29,655 --> 00:07:32,551 almost reconstructed a replica 150 00:07:32,655 --> 00:07:35,310 of the Havana Airport in Southern Florida. 151 00:07:35,413 --> 00:07:37,620 The idea was if you got hijacked to Havana, 152 00:07:37,724 --> 00:07:40,482 you would just fly around and then land at the fake site. 153 00:07:41,758 --> 00:07:45,413 Some people theorize that the D.B. Cooper hijacking 154 00:07:45,482 --> 00:07:49,689 was really some sort of false flag event 155 00:07:49,758 --> 00:07:52,793 to create a hijacking spectacular enough 156 00:07:52,896 --> 00:07:55,241 that it will grab everyone's attention 157 00:07:55,344 --> 00:07:57,758 and lead to some regulation changes, 158 00:07:57,827 --> 00:07:59,689 so that these hijackings can stop. 159 00:07:59,758 --> 00:08:03,137 And that actually is what happened after D.B. Cooper, 160 00:08:03,241 --> 00:08:05,206 because the FAA came out 161 00:08:05,310 --> 00:08:07,206 with all kinds of new regulations. 162 00:08:07,310 --> 00:08:10,793 LEVINE: I wouldn't put it past the CIA to have an agent 163 00:08:10,862 --> 00:08:14,275 like Dan Cooper do whatever it took 164 00:08:14,379 --> 00:08:17,482 to raise public perception 165 00:08:17,551 --> 00:08:20,724 and public awareness on airline security. 166 00:08:20,827 --> 00:08:23,206 I mean, when you really look at it, 167 00:08:23,275 --> 00:08:24,620 who was hurt? Nobody. 168 00:08:24,689 --> 00:08:27,172 I mean, he had all the makings 169 00:08:27,275 --> 00:08:28,931 of an undercover operative. 170 00:08:29,965 --> 00:08:32,793 GRAY: The D.B. Cooper case-- what makes it noteworthy 171 00:08:32,862 --> 00:08:35,896 is that it's actually the only unsolved skyjacking 172 00:08:35,965 --> 00:08:37,379 in the world. 173 00:08:37,448 --> 00:08:39,482 And what makes it so hard to solve 174 00:08:39,586 --> 00:08:41,758 is that it's mysteries and mysteries. 175 00:08:41,827 --> 00:08:44,344 And once you get inside those mysteries, there's others. 176 00:08:44,413 --> 00:08:46,586 It's not just a story about a hijacker. 177 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,344 SHATNER: Was D.B. Cooper a CIA agent 178 00:08:51,448 --> 00:08:54,103 whose mission was conceived not by him 179 00:08:54,172 --> 00:08:56,206 but by his superiors? 180 00:08:56,275 --> 00:08:57,862 It's a fascinating theory 181 00:08:57,931 --> 00:09:00,586 and suggests that the true mastermind 182 00:09:00,655 --> 00:09:03,724 behind a crime can be hard to uncover. 183 00:09:04,689 --> 00:09:07,586 Like in the case of another, more recent crime. 184 00:09:07,655 --> 00:09:10,517 A robbery involving $250,000, 185 00:09:10,586 --> 00:09:12,482 a ticking time bomb, 186 00:09:12,551 --> 00:09:16,172 and even more unanswered questions. 187 00:09:27,724 --> 00:09:31,517 SHATNER: It's an ordinary day at a downtown PNC Bank 188 00:09:31,620 --> 00:09:34,103 when 46-year-old Brian Wells 189 00:09:34,172 --> 00:09:37,310 gets in line to see the teller. 190 00:09:37,413 --> 00:09:41,172 But Brian Wells is no ordinary customer. 191 00:09:42,689 --> 00:09:45,724 JERRY CLARK: Mr. Wells had a protrusion under the shirt 192 00:09:45,793 --> 00:09:49,241 that was described like someone had a medical injury 193 00:09:49,344 --> 00:09:50,793 that was under his neck. 194 00:09:50,862 --> 00:09:52,655 Mr. Wells handed the teller a note 195 00:09:52,758 --> 00:09:54,655 and said, "This is a bank robbery, 196 00:09:54,758 --> 00:09:57,344 and I need $250,000 in cash." 197 00:09:58,448 --> 00:10:03,137 BIRNHOLZ: The demand note said there was a bomb strapped around his neck. 198 00:10:03,241 --> 00:10:05,241 The teller informed Brian Wells 199 00:10:05,310 --> 00:10:07,482 that she couldn't access the bank vault. 200 00:10:07,586 --> 00:10:11,137 And so she ended up giving him about $8,000. 201 00:10:11,241 --> 00:10:14,034 SHATNER: Brian Wells walked out of the bank 202 00:10:14,103 --> 00:10:15,620 with only a fraction 203 00:10:15,724 --> 00:10:18,620 of the amount of money that he had demanded. 204 00:10:18,689 --> 00:10:20,862 And he didn't make it very far 205 00:10:20,931 --> 00:10:24,034 because the bank called the police the moment Brian left. 206 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,482 I get dispatched like any other law enforcement officer. 207 00:10:29,551 --> 00:10:31,827 "Hey, there's a bank robbery, 7200 Peach, 208 00:10:31,931 --> 00:10:34,275 potential, uh, explosive device used." 209 00:10:35,275 --> 00:10:39,000 After leaving the bank, within five minutes Mr. Wells 210 00:10:39,068 --> 00:10:42,862 is located and apprehended by the Pennsylvania state police, 211 00:10:42,931 --> 00:10:48,172 and he advises that he does have a bomb under his shirt. 212 00:10:48,275 --> 00:10:50,655 We didn't know if he was a hostage 213 00:10:50,724 --> 00:10:52,827 or if he was a cooperator. 214 00:10:52,896 --> 00:10:54,517 We had no idea. 215 00:10:54,586 --> 00:10:56,758 He said, "I'm a pizza delivery driver. 216 00:10:56,862 --> 00:11:00,758 "I went to deliver pizzas, and these people accosted me 217 00:11:00,862 --> 00:11:03,517 and made me wear the device and rob the bank." 218 00:11:03,620 --> 00:11:06,551 I think it's one of those real moments 219 00:11:06,620 --> 00:11:09,103 that you're thinking it's probably a hoax. 220 00:11:09,172 --> 00:11:11,862 Because I can't tell you how many hoax bank robberies 221 00:11:11,931 --> 00:11:15,206 I was at where people indicate they have an explosive device, 222 00:11:15,275 --> 00:11:16,862 and it's a hoax. 223 00:11:16,931 --> 00:11:18,862 But you have to believe that it's real. 224 00:11:18,965 --> 00:11:21,000 And we notified the bomb squad. 225 00:11:21,827 --> 00:11:24,482 His demeanor was getting agitated 226 00:11:24,551 --> 00:11:26,689 as we were waiting for the bomb squad. 227 00:11:26,793 --> 00:11:29,551 He was saying, "Hey, can I have a cigarette? 228 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:31,379 This is heavy." 229 00:11:31,448 --> 00:11:32,793 But we still don't know 230 00:11:32,862 --> 00:11:35,000 if it's fake or real at that point. 231 00:11:35,931 --> 00:11:39,137 SHATNER: At 3:18 p.m., without warning, 232 00:11:39,206 --> 00:11:40,862 the bomb detonated... 233 00:11:42,862 --> 00:11:46,724 ...and Brian Wells died instantly. 234 00:11:47,689 --> 00:11:49,793 CLARK: I mean, that's just some moment 235 00:11:49,896 --> 00:11:51,862 you'll never forget in your lifetime. 236 00:11:51,965 --> 00:11:54,034 It's not uncommon for a bank robber 237 00:11:54,103 --> 00:11:57,482 to say they have a device, and it's going to go off. 238 00:11:57,551 --> 00:11:59,137 That's not uncommon. 239 00:11:59,206 --> 00:12:02,620 What's uncommon is for it to actually happen. 240 00:12:02,689 --> 00:12:06,448 Brian was a very nice guy 241 00:12:06,517 --> 00:12:09,034 and, for his family, 242 00:12:09,103 --> 00:12:12,172 I will always be sorry for what they went through, 243 00:12:12,241 --> 00:12:16,931 to see that happen on TV. 244 00:12:17,896 --> 00:12:20,586 But you immediately have to gain control of the scene. 245 00:12:20,689 --> 00:12:22,931 So we did a search of Brian Wells' vehicle. 246 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,931 And inside we found a series of notes. 247 00:12:27,034 --> 00:12:28,758 Nine total pages. 248 00:12:28,862 --> 00:12:33,413 Really bizarre notes and way too detailed and complex 249 00:12:33,482 --> 00:12:35,793 like you couldn't believe. 250 00:12:35,896 --> 00:12:37,965 Some were made to the teller. 251 00:12:38,034 --> 00:12:42,034 Some were made to police and what not to do. 252 00:12:42,137 --> 00:12:45,551 Some were made to Brian Wells specifically, saying, 253 00:12:45,655 --> 00:12:47,620 "Wells, after you rob the bank, 254 00:12:47,724 --> 00:12:50,620 "this is the series of stops that you're to make 255 00:12:50,724 --> 00:12:54,103 to obtain keys to get the device off of your neck." 256 00:12:55,034 --> 00:12:58,448 LEVINE: It's like he was on a scavenger hunt, 257 00:12:58,551 --> 00:13:01,965 and at each location, he would find a key 258 00:13:02,034 --> 00:13:05,206 or a code that would be one step closer 259 00:13:05,310 --> 00:13:09,482 for him be able to remove the bomb from him. 260 00:13:09,586 --> 00:13:12,482 I mean, never in our history 261 00:13:12,586 --> 00:13:14,586 has a man walked into a bank 262 00:13:14,655 --> 00:13:18,103 with a bomb strapped around his neck 263 00:13:18,172 --> 00:13:22,137 with orders to complete a scavenger hunt 264 00:13:22,241 --> 00:13:24,793 to have the bomb removed. 265 00:13:25,620 --> 00:13:28,482 CLARK: The design of the collar 266 00:13:28,586 --> 00:13:30,655 and the box that the collar held 267 00:13:30,724 --> 00:13:32,482 was very unique. 268 00:13:32,551 --> 00:13:34,551 It was basically like a large handcuff 269 00:13:34,655 --> 00:13:36,310 on the collar portion. 270 00:13:37,551 --> 00:13:39,724 Below the collar was a box. 271 00:13:39,827 --> 00:13:41,827 And the box held two pipe bombs 272 00:13:41,896 --> 00:13:44,517 and two kitchen timers. 273 00:13:44,620 --> 00:13:47,137 The bomb squad said it was one of the most 274 00:13:47,206 --> 00:13:50,034 diabolical killing machines they had ever seen. 275 00:13:50,103 --> 00:13:53,448 And that's because it was one of a kind. 276 00:13:53,517 --> 00:13:57,206 It was made specifically for this event. 277 00:13:57,310 --> 00:14:01,551 Initially, we had never seen anything like this. 278 00:14:01,655 --> 00:14:05,551 We just had to start very much in a methodical process, 279 00:14:05,655 --> 00:14:07,689 putting the pieces together. 280 00:14:08,689 --> 00:14:12,103 The criminal mastermind clearly spent so much time doing this. 281 00:14:12,206 --> 00:14:15,034 The mastermind is obviously delighting 282 00:14:15,137 --> 00:14:16,931 in playing a game with the police, 283 00:14:17,034 --> 00:14:18,896 and then when they can't solve it, 284 00:14:18,965 --> 00:14:22,103 that is a huge boost to their own ego, 285 00:14:22,206 --> 00:14:24,413 and the longer they could delay the police 286 00:14:24,517 --> 00:14:25,965 actually finding real answers, 287 00:14:26,034 --> 00:14:28,068 the more they would feel amazing about themselves, 288 00:14:28,137 --> 00:14:31,482 and the mastermind behind the Brian Wells case 289 00:14:31,551 --> 00:14:33,137 was clearly trying to do that. 290 00:14:33,206 --> 00:14:35,137 SHATNER: In search of answers, 291 00:14:35,206 --> 00:14:37,689 investigators traced Wells's movements 292 00:14:37,758 --> 00:14:40,103 earlier in the day. 293 00:14:40,206 --> 00:14:42,896 They went to a nearby television tower 294 00:14:42,965 --> 00:14:45,827 where Wells had made his last pizza delivery. 295 00:14:45,896 --> 00:14:47,793 CLARK: He said when he went there 296 00:14:47,896 --> 00:14:50,206 and got to the back of the site, 297 00:14:50,275 --> 00:14:52,655 he was accosted by a group of individuals 298 00:14:52,758 --> 00:14:55,068 who told him to rob the bank, 299 00:14:55,137 --> 00:14:58,068 and then he will have notes to follow 300 00:14:58,137 --> 00:15:00,448 to get the keys to get the device off. 301 00:15:00,517 --> 00:15:03,655 SHATNER: But when the cops checked out the area, 302 00:15:03,758 --> 00:15:05,827 they found that the tower was abandoned, 303 00:15:05,931 --> 00:15:08,206 and the trail went cold. 304 00:15:08,275 --> 00:15:10,965 That is, until three weeks later, 305 00:15:11,034 --> 00:15:14,241 when local handyman Bill Rothstein, 306 00:15:14,344 --> 00:15:17,793 who just happened to live right next to the TV tower, 307 00:15:17,896 --> 00:15:19,551 called 911. 308 00:15:29,068 --> 00:15:31,517 SHATNER: The police determined that the body 309 00:15:31,620 --> 00:15:35,655 in Bill Rothstein's freezer was a man named James Roden, 310 00:15:35,758 --> 00:15:39,517 the boyfriend of Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, 311 00:15:39,620 --> 00:15:43,655 a woman who was all too familiar to the local authorities. 312 00:15:43,724 --> 00:15:45,724 LEVINE: Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong 313 00:15:45,793 --> 00:15:48,172 was almost like a black widow of sorts 314 00:15:48,275 --> 00:15:52,000 where she left a series of mysterious deaths, 315 00:15:52,103 --> 00:15:55,275 her husband and several boyfriends, in the local area. 316 00:15:56,896 --> 00:15:59,827 Roden was a former lover, 317 00:15:59,931 --> 00:16:01,862 boyfriend of hers, 318 00:16:01,965 --> 00:16:05,379 and she ended up killing the man with a shotgun. 319 00:16:05,448 --> 00:16:10,172 She asked Rothstein to dispose of the body for her, 320 00:16:10,275 --> 00:16:14,620 and he ends up leaving it in his freezer in his garage. 321 00:16:15,586 --> 00:16:18,758 CLARK: After interviews with Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong 322 00:16:18,827 --> 00:16:21,137 and others, we determined 323 00:16:21,241 --> 00:16:25,517 that Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong's father had a lot of money. 324 00:16:25,620 --> 00:16:28,034 And she was the only child, 325 00:16:28,103 --> 00:16:29,896 and she wanted the money, 326 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,413 and she wanted it now. 327 00:16:31,517 --> 00:16:35,000 So, the whole idea to rob the bank for the money 328 00:16:35,068 --> 00:16:37,620 really came from Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong. 329 00:16:37,689 --> 00:16:40,137 Rob the bank to get the money 330 00:16:40,206 --> 00:16:43,344 to pay someone to kill her father to get her inheritance. 331 00:16:45,344 --> 00:16:47,482 SHATNER: On November 1, 2010, 332 00:16:47,586 --> 00:16:49,655 Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong 333 00:16:49,724 --> 00:16:52,896 was convicted of armed bank robbery, 334 00:16:52,965 --> 00:16:56,379 conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, 335 00:16:56,482 --> 00:16:59,896 and of using a destructive device in a crime. 336 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,586 In the eyes of many, these convictions confirmed 337 00:17:03,689 --> 00:17:06,862 that Marjorie was the mastermind 338 00:17:06,965 --> 00:17:08,896 of the collar bomb robbery, 339 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,482 and responsible for the deaths of both 340 00:17:11,586 --> 00:17:14,068 Brian Wells and James Roden. 341 00:17:14,172 --> 00:17:16,896 But was she acting alone? 342 00:17:16,965 --> 00:17:19,034 Not everyone agrees. 343 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,206 CLARK: As soon as I met Bill Rothstein, 344 00:17:22,310 --> 00:17:24,827 the night he turned in the body of James Roden, 345 00:17:24,931 --> 00:17:26,172 after I interviewed him, 346 00:17:26,241 --> 00:17:28,000 I felt he was involved in the Wells case. 347 00:17:28,068 --> 00:17:30,793 It was at the Pennsylvania state police barracks, 348 00:17:30,896 --> 00:17:32,965 and Bill Rothstein was in one of the rooms. 349 00:17:33,068 --> 00:17:34,931 And I walked in the room 350 00:17:35,034 --> 00:17:37,206 and I said, "Hey, Bill. Jerry Clark from the FBI. 351 00:17:37,275 --> 00:17:39,310 I'd like to talk to you a second." 352 00:17:39,379 --> 00:17:41,965 And he said, "I'll talk to you, but I need to tell you 353 00:17:42,034 --> 00:17:43,586 that I'm the smartest guy in this room." 354 00:17:52,896 --> 00:17:57,344 He was so, so unbelievably into himself 355 00:17:57,448 --> 00:18:00,482 and thought he was way smarter than anybody else. 356 00:18:00,586 --> 00:18:02,862 From my perspective, 357 00:18:02,931 --> 00:18:05,827 the mastermind is Bill Rothstein, 358 00:18:05,931 --> 00:18:09,517 because he masterminded how to do this 359 00:18:09,586 --> 00:18:13,172 and the notes, and the bomb, and making the bomb, 360 00:18:13,241 --> 00:18:16,310 and the intricacies that went into it. 361 00:18:16,413 --> 00:18:18,379 Unfortunately for the case, 362 00:18:18,482 --> 00:18:21,689 Bill Rothstein died in July of 2004. 363 00:18:21,793 --> 00:18:24,827 I think Rothstein-- he knew he was dying of cancer, 364 00:18:24,931 --> 00:18:28,206 and I think he wanted to go out saying, 365 00:18:28,310 --> 00:18:30,413 "I'm the smartest guy around, 366 00:18:30,482 --> 00:18:33,344 and I pulled one over on law enforcement." 367 00:18:33,448 --> 00:18:36,482 SHATNER: Was the collar bomb robbery Bill Rothstein's attempt 368 00:18:36,551 --> 00:18:39,482 to pull off a crime that would outsmart the police 369 00:18:39,551 --> 00:18:41,241 before he died? 370 00:18:41,344 --> 00:18:43,896 Unfortunately, Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong 371 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,137 also died in 2017, 372 00:18:46,206 --> 00:18:48,517 so it's hard to say for sure. 373 00:18:49,448 --> 00:18:52,137 But there are other robberies that, 374 00:18:52,206 --> 00:18:55,482 while the motivation behind them may be more clear, 375 00:18:55,551 --> 00:18:57,344 are no less baffling. 376 00:18:57,413 --> 00:19:00,689 Like in the story of the largest property theft 377 00:19:00,793 --> 00:19:02,344 in American history, 378 00:19:02,448 --> 00:19:06,275 a museum heist in which priceless pieces of art 379 00:19:06,379 --> 00:19:08,793 were taken and, to this day, 380 00:19:08,896 --> 00:19:11,034 are still missing. 381 00:19:20,275 --> 00:19:23,896 SHATNER: Police officers responding to a call 382 00:19:23,965 --> 00:19:26,275 arrive at the Isabella Gardner Museum 383 00:19:26,379 --> 00:19:28,379 and are shocked to discover 384 00:19:28,482 --> 00:19:32,551 that several works of art have vanished into thin air. 385 00:19:32,655 --> 00:19:36,068 WITTMAN: Many of the pieces that they stole were paintings. 386 00:19:36,137 --> 00:19:38,482 Some were drawings and some of the pieces 387 00:19:38,551 --> 00:19:39,586 they took were priceless. 388 00:19:39,689 --> 00:19:42,448 One of the pieces they stole was a Rembrandt seascape 389 00:19:42,551 --> 00:19:44,655 called The Storm Over the Sea of Galilee. 390 00:19:45,655 --> 00:19:48,517 It's the only seascape that Rembrandt ever painted. 391 00:19:50,793 --> 00:19:53,379 Another piece was a Vermeer. 392 00:19:53,482 --> 00:19:55,379 Uh, it's called The Concert. 393 00:19:56,344 --> 00:19:59,827 Both of these pieces are considered almost priceless. 394 00:19:59,931 --> 00:20:03,344 All told, 13 objects of art were stolen. 395 00:20:03,413 --> 00:20:07,172 The total value, as of today, is over five hundred million, 396 00:20:07,275 --> 00:20:09,620 making that the single largest property crime 397 00:20:09,689 --> 00:20:10,896 in U.S. history. 398 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,310 SHATNER: Police found the two security guards on duty 399 00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:18,103 handcuffed and tied up in the basement of the museum. 400 00:20:18,206 --> 00:20:20,724 After questioning the guards, 401 00:20:20,827 --> 00:20:23,620 they learned how the heist had been carried out. 402 00:20:25,241 --> 00:20:28,172 SHERMAN: Two thieves dressed as police officers 403 00:20:28,241 --> 00:20:31,137 entered the Museum at 1:24 a.m. 404 00:20:31,241 --> 00:20:33,413 They approached one of the security guards 405 00:20:33,482 --> 00:20:35,758 and told him that he fit the description 406 00:20:35,827 --> 00:20:37,137 of a suspect in another crime. 407 00:20:37,206 --> 00:20:39,862 They asked the guard 408 00:20:39,931 --> 00:20:42,000 to lift himself up from the security desk 409 00:20:42,103 --> 00:20:44,241 so that they could get a better look at him. 410 00:20:44,310 --> 00:20:46,620 And when he did, they grabbed him, 411 00:20:46,724 --> 00:20:49,551 they shackled him, and they tied him up in the basement. 412 00:20:50,655 --> 00:20:53,172 SHATNER: Once the guards were subdued, the two thieves 413 00:20:53,275 --> 00:20:55,724 spent the next 81 minutes methodically stealing 414 00:20:55,793 --> 00:20:57,482 the 13 masterpieces 415 00:20:57,551 --> 00:21:00,551 and then disappeared into the night. 416 00:21:01,586 --> 00:21:05,413 The FBI immediately launched a full investigation, 417 00:21:05,482 --> 00:21:07,931 and there were several persons of interest they looked into. 418 00:21:08,034 --> 00:21:09,758 One of those persons was none other 419 00:21:09,862 --> 00:21:11,517 than James "Whitey" Bulger, 420 00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:14,724 the leader of the notorious Winter Hill Gang. 421 00:21:15,896 --> 00:21:18,241 SHERMAN: James "Whitey" Bulger was the godfather 422 00:21:18,344 --> 00:21:21,000 of Boston crime in 1990 423 00:21:21,068 --> 00:21:23,310 when that heist occurred. 424 00:21:23,379 --> 00:21:26,931 So, immediately, the FBI and the Boston police 425 00:21:27,034 --> 00:21:29,379 pulled Bulger in and all of his associates 426 00:21:29,448 --> 00:21:32,103 and asked them, "Where are the paintings?" 427 00:21:33,103 --> 00:21:36,931 WITTMAN: Whitey Bulger was intensely questioned at that time 428 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,034 about knowledge about the Gardner heist 429 00:21:39,137 --> 00:21:41,482 and claims he had no knowledge. 430 00:21:41,586 --> 00:21:43,310 So, there's no reason to think he was involved 431 00:21:43,379 --> 00:21:44,862 because there was no evidence of that. 432 00:21:44,931 --> 00:21:47,241 SHATNER: As the years went on 433 00:21:47,310 --> 00:21:51,068 and the FBI was unable to charge anyone with the crime, 434 00:21:51,137 --> 00:21:54,103 museum officials offered a $10 million reward 435 00:21:54,206 --> 00:21:56,724 for information leading directly to the return 436 00:21:56,793 --> 00:21:59,068 of all 13 works of art. 437 00:21:59,137 --> 00:22:02,172 No one came forward, 438 00:22:02,275 --> 00:22:06,103 and the case continued to stump investigators, 439 00:22:06,206 --> 00:22:08,551 but FBI Agent Robert Wittman 440 00:22:08,655 --> 00:22:11,517 was determined to solve the mystery. 441 00:22:11,586 --> 00:22:14,344 My active investigation into the Gardner heist 442 00:22:14,448 --> 00:22:16,827 started around 2005. 443 00:22:17,827 --> 00:22:22,103 In 2005, I was contacted by a Parisian police officer 444 00:22:22,206 --> 00:22:24,103 who told me that a Frenchman 445 00:22:24,172 --> 00:22:27,620 uh, was interested in selling the Vermeer and the Rembrandt. 446 00:22:28,620 --> 00:22:31,275 The thieves were actually connected to two brothers 447 00:22:31,344 --> 00:22:34,310 from Corsica who were actually in prison. 448 00:22:34,413 --> 00:22:36,655 They were waiting for the right time to sell 449 00:22:36,724 --> 00:22:38,724 these paintings for the right amount of money 450 00:22:38,827 --> 00:22:40,793 that they could set up their families for life 451 00:22:40,862 --> 00:22:43,103 because they were never going to get out of jail. 452 00:22:43,206 --> 00:22:44,931 They wanted, uh, $30 million 453 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,137 for the paintings to come back, 454 00:22:47,241 --> 00:22:50,241 uh, and I was willing to pay it as far as being 455 00:22:50,344 --> 00:22:53,000 a shady undercover, uh, you know, 456 00:22:53,103 --> 00:22:54,827 criminal dealer in the United States. 457 00:22:55,862 --> 00:22:59,758 SHATNER: 15 years after the Isabella Gardner heist, 458 00:22:59,827 --> 00:23:03,310 FBI agent Robert Wittman believed that he was on the cusp 459 00:23:03,379 --> 00:23:05,689 of recovering the stolen works of art 460 00:23:05,793 --> 00:23:09,517 and, hopefully, finding out who originally took them. 461 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,275 But before the Corsican brothers would sell him 462 00:23:12,379 --> 00:23:14,620 the Gardner Museum pieces, 463 00:23:14,724 --> 00:23:18,931 they wanted to unload other artwork first. 464 00:23:19,034 --> 00:23:22,068 They decided to offer me, uh, four more paintings 465 00:23:22,137 --> 00:23:25,965 that were stolen from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nice, France. 466 00:23:26,034 --> 00:23:27,655 We took them up on their offer 467 00:23:27,724 --> 00:23:29,758 and were able to recover those in Marseilles. 468 00:23:29,862 --> 00:23:32,517 The problem was, though, in that recovery, 469 00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:35,586 one of the French policemen told the individuals 470 00:23:35,689 --> 00:23:38,620 that, uh, I was an FBI agent. 471 00:23:38,689 --> 00:23:41,586 And, at that point, we kind of lost the possibility 472 00:23:41,689 --> 00:23:44,310 of working with them to get the Rembrandt and the Vermeer back. 473 00:23:44,379 --> 00:23:45,931 That was done. 474 00:23:46,034 --> 00:23:47,551 It's very difficult to infiltrate 475 00:23:47,655 --> 00:23:49,068 Corsican society. 476 00:23:49,172 --> 00:23:50,551 Uh, French police have had a hard time 477 00:23:50,620 --> 00:23:52,241 with that for many, many years. 478 00:23:52,310 --> 00:23:55,482 So, we can't go any further with it at this point. 479 00:23:56,862 --> 00:24:00,517 SHATNER: FBI agents believe they came tantalizingly close 480 00:24:00,586 --> 00:24:02,931 to retrieving two of the stolen paintings 481 00:24:03,034 --> 00:24:05,793 from the Corsican brothers only to have them 482 00:24:05,862 --> 00:24:08,034 slip through their fingers at the last moment. 483 00:24:09,206 --> 00:24:12,793 But then, on March 18, 2013, 484 00:24:12,896 --> 00:24:16,103 on the 23rd anniversary of the heist, 485 00:24:16,206 --> 00:24:19,586 the FBI made a surprise announcement. 486 00:24:19,689 --> 00:24:22,482 FBI agents developed crucial pieces of evidence 487 00:24:22,586 --> 00:24:25,379 that confirm the identity of those who entered the museum 488 00:24:25,482 --> 00:24:27,275 and others associated with the theft 489 00:24:27,344 --> 00:24:29,000 who belonged to a criminal organization. 490 00:24:30,103 --> 00:24:33,896 SHATNER: Although they claimed to know the identity of the two thieves, 491 00:24:33,965 --> 00:24:36,241 the FBI refused to name them, 492 00:24:36,344 --> 00:24:39,517 and in 2015, they further announced 493 00:24:39,620 --> 00:24:43,448 that both of them are dead. 494 00:24:43,517 --> 00:24:45,413 I think the FBI knows exactly 495 00:24:45,517 --> 00:24:48,310 who committed the crimes in 1990, 496 00:24:48,379 --> 00:24:52,275 but they have no idea where the art resides today. 497 00:24:53,241 --> 00:24:56,793 So I think the FBI wanted to provide a carrot 498 00:24:56,896 --> 00:24:58,206 to the public to say, 499 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:00,275 "Hey, we're still working on this case." 500 00:25:00,344 --> 00:25:04,344 They need the public's help to solve this crime. 501 00:25:04,448 --> 00:25:06,448 WITTMAN: I've heard some people have said 502 00:25:06,517 --> 00:25:08,586 that all 13 pieces are sitting in somebody's attic 503 00:25:08,655 --> 00:25:10,000 two blocks from the museum. 504 00:25:10,103 --> 00:25:11,275 I don't believe that. 505 00:25:11,379 --> 00:25:12,551 I've never seen that happen. 506 00:25:12,620 --> 00:25:14,448 After doing investigations 507 00:25:14,517 --> 00:25:16,620 in art crime for 30 years, 508 00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:18,793 what I've found is that when you have 509 00:25:18,896 --> 00:25:21,655 13 pieces out there, the paintings have been divided up. 510 00:25:21,758 --> 00:25:22,862 They're in different places. 511 00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:26,379 SHERMAN: Now it's been 30 years, 512 00:25:26,448 --> 00:25:29,137 and there has been no sign of the artwork. 513 00:25:29,206 --> 00:25:31,482 And that's the enduring mystery 514 00:25:31,586 --> 00:25:33,655 of the Isabella Gardner Museum heist. 515 00:25:33,758 --> 00:25:37,344 Thirteen paintings that vanished in thin air. 516 00:25:37,413 --> 00:25:41,862 And those empty frames sit there like gravestones 517 00:25:41,965 --> 00:25:44,000 today in the museum. 518 00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:50,620 If the FBI knows 519 00:25:50,724 --> 00:25:53,172 who did the Isabella Gardner heist, 520 00:25:53,275 --> 00:25:55,655 then why won't they name names? 521 00:25:55,758 --> 00:25:59,655 Could it be because the perpetrators are dead? 522 00:26:00,655 --> 00:26:03,586 Or is there another, even more incredible reason? 523 00:26:04,551 --> 00:26:07,689 One that won't be revealed until the paintings 524 00:26:07,758 --> 00:26:11,000 are all recovered safe and sound? 525 00:26:16,482 --> 00:26:20,793 SHATNER: Not all outrageous robberies involve stealing 526 00:26:20,896 --> 00:26:22,482 large amounts of cash 527 00:26:22,551 --> 00:26:25,103 or valuable works of art. 528 00:26:25,206 --> 00:26:28,827 In recent years, there have been an increasing number 529 00:26:28,931 --> 00:26:31,620 of so-called "cybercrimes," 530 00:26:31,689 --> 00:26:35,034 in which criminals illegally exploit computer systems 531 00:26:35,137 --> 00:26:39,310 to do everything from stealing a single person's identity 532 00:26:39,413 --> 00:26:42,965 to manipulating the global financial system. 533 00:26:43,862 --> 00:26:47,310 JEFF LANZA: Cybercrime is a huge issue today. 534 00:26:47,379 --> 00:26:49,344 Companies are getting their computers hacked into 535 00:26:49,413 --> 00:26:50,758 on a daily basis. 536 00:26:50,827 --> 00:26:52,551 Fraud is a regular part of their lives. 537 00:26:53,517 --> 00:26:55,758 And every CEO of a company knows that. 538 00:26:55,862 --> 00:26:59,310 And my biggest worry is not just these individual cyberattacks 539 00:26:59,413 --> 00:27:01,827 but also cyber threats on our infrastructure, 540 00:27:01,931 --> 00:27:05,172 the flow of money on a nationwide basis. 541 00:27:05,241 --> 00:27:07,379 And what we've seen, uh, over the years 542 00:27:07,448 --> 00:27:10,068 is an increasing, uh, capability 543 00:27:10,137 --> 00:27:11,896 of the cyber criminals 544 00:27:11,965 --> 00:27:14,689 to stay one step ahead of law enforcement. 545 00:27:22,379 --> 00:27:25,137 SHATNER: 32-year-old Sindri Thor Stefansson 546 00:27:25,241 --> 00:27:27,034 and a group of thieves 547 00:27:27,103 --> 00:27:28,862 break into the Advania Data Center, 548 00:27:28,931 --> 00:27:31,655 which is home to one of the largest concentrations 549 00:27:31,724 --> 00:27:33,965 of computer power in the world, 550 00:27:34,034 --> 00:27:38,724 and steal 550 computers. 551 00:27:38,793 --> 00:27:42,896 The value of these devices is about $2 million, 552 00:27:42,965 --> 00:27:47,172 but the bigger score is not the computers themselves, 553 00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:50,827 but the information stored inside them. 554 00:27:52,448 --> 00:27:56,103 What these devices could do is mine Bitcoin. 555 00:27:57,689 --> 00:27:59,758 And mining Bitcoin can produce 556 00:27:59,862 --> 00:28:02,862 millions and millions and millions of dollars. 557 00:28:02,931 --> 00:28:06,275 These computers are basically like gold. 558 00:28:06,344 --> 00:28:08,034 But they're not mining gold. 559 00:28:08,103 --> 00:28:10,862 They're mining digits and mathematical formulas, 560 00:28:10,931 --> 00:28:15,482 which, in the 21st century, is something of value. 561 00:28:16,448 --> 00:28:18,586 SHATNER: Released in 2009, 562 00:28:18,689 --> 00:28:21,310 Bitcoin was the first of a new kind of money 563 00:28:21,379 --> 00:28:23,172 known as cryptocurrency, 564 00:28:23,241 --> 00:28:24,827 a form of digital cash 565 00:28:24,931 --> 00:28:27,931 that eliminates the need for traditional banks. 566 00:28:28,758 --> 00:28:31,379 Unlike normal forms of currency 567 00:28:31,482 --> 00:28:34,206 like the dollar or the euro, 568 00:28:34,310 --> 00:28:36,344 the value of a Bitcoin 569 00:28:36,413 --> 00:28:39,034 is not tied to any nation or government. 570 00:28:40,206 --> 00:28:43,034 For Sindri Thor Stefansson, 571 00:28:43,103 --> 00:28:47,206 the benefit of stealing 550 Bitcoin computers 572 00:28:47,310 --> 00:28:49,448 was in the future Bitcoins 573 00:28:49,551 --> 00:28:51,586 they could create. 574 00:28:51,655 --> 00:28:54,344 What you get for the risk 575 00:28:54,413 --> 00:28:58,931 is essentially a money-printing machine. 576 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,172 And the difference is it's not printing cash, 577 00:29:02,275 --> 00:29:06,103 it's printing billions of dollars' worth of Bitcoins 578 00:29:06,172 --> 00:29:09,000 at a very rapid rate. 579 00:29:09,103 --> 00:29:11,448 And all that information 580 00:29:11,551 --> 00:29:15,310 is encrypted and untraceable. 581 00:29:16,275 --> 00:29:20,241 It's the perfect crime if you can pull it off. 582 00:29:21,206 --> 00:29:23,827 SHATNER: Less than a month after the Bitcoin heist, 583 00:29:23,896 --> 00:29:25,689 Stefansson was arrested and charged 584 00:29:25,793 --> 00:29:27,586 with stealing the computers. 585 00:29:29,586 --> 00:29:31,275 After confessing, he was sentenced 586 00:29:31,379 --> 00:29:33,827 to four and a half years in prison. 587 00:29:34,793 --> 00:29:37,103 But the case wasn't resolved 588 00:29:37,172 --> 00:29:41,103 because the stolen computers were never recovered, 589 00:29:41,172 --> 00:29:44,551 and Stefansson claims to not even know where they are. 590 00:29:46,172 --> 00:29:49,413 There was a greater conspiracy 591 00:29:49,517 --> 00:29:52,103 behind this Bitcoin heist, 592 00:29:52,206 --> 00:29:55,206 and he blames it on a guy 593 00:29:55,310 --> 00:29:57,827 whose identity he's never revealed. 594 00:29:59,965 --> 00:30:03,068 HOCHMAN: Mr. Stefansson has said that the idea of doing it 595 00:30:03,137 --> 00:30:04,965 did not come from him. 596 00:30:05,034 --> 00:30:06,931 But there's this Mr. X 597 00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:11,000 that he mysteriously ascribes the mastermind role to. 598 00:30:14,413 --> 00:30:18,482 There are a lot of wild theories about who Mr. X could be. 599 00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:21,413 One of them is it could be Satoshi Nakamoto. 600 00:30:21,482 --> 00:30:23,310 SHATNER: By all accounts, 601 00:30:23,413 --> 00:30:26,482 "Satoshi Nakamoto" is an alias, a pseudonym, 602 00:30:26,586 --> 00:30:29,172 for the shadowy creator of Bitcoin, 603 00:30:29,275 --> 00:30:32,103 whose real identity is unknown. 604 00:30:33,103 --> 00:30:35,551 HOCHMAN: We don't even know if Satoshi Nakamoto 605 00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:38,655 is a he or a she or a they 606 00:30:38,758 --> 00:30:41,827 because Satoshi Nakamoto has never come forward. 607 00:30:43,620 --> 00:30:47,172 WITTMAN: In 2009, when this started, 608 00:30:47,275 --> 00:30:49,413 Nakamoto was very enthusiastic 609 00:30:49,517 --> 00:30:52,482 about spreading his ideas, 610 00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:54,310 spreading out this code. 611 00:30:55,241 --> 00:30:58,655 This allowed him to establish a new currency 612 00:30:58,724 --> 00:31:02,310 called Bitcoin, which was not government controlled. 613 00:31:03,379 --> 00:31:06,137 Around 2011, he just went dark. 614 00:31:06,206 --> 00:31:08,413 And no one knows who he is. 615 00:31:08,517 --> 00:31:10,862 SHATNER: There are those who believe 616 00:31:10,931 --> 00:31:15,137 that Satoshi Nakamoto and Mr. X are one and the same. 617 00:31:15,241 --> 00:31:18,724 And that this unidentified person, or group of people, 618 00:31:18,827 --> 00:31:21,931 has been hoarding and manipulating 619 00:31:22,034 --> 00:31:25,068 the value of Bitcoin from its inception 620 00:31:25,172 --> 00:31:28,931 to the heist in Iceland right up to today. 621 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,689 HOCHMAN: Every single state and every single country 622 00:31:32,758 --> 00:31:36,689 is doing its best to rein in the Wild West of cryptocurrency. 623 00:31:36,758 --> 00:31:39,482 So the IRS, in the last couple of years, 624 00:31:39,551 --> 00:31:41,862 is very much stepping up its enforcement 625 00:31:41,931 --> 00:31:44,586 to go after people who are not reporting 626 00:31:44,655 --> 00:31:46,827 their cryptocurrency transactions. 627 00:31:47,620 --> 00:31:49,724 Because they, by themselves, 628 00:31:49,827 --> 00:31:53,034 could crash the market or they could grow the market. 629 00:31:55,344 --> 00:31:59,241 LANZA: Cyber fraud-- it's one of the top three priorities of the FBI. 630 00:31:59,344 --> 00:32:01,344 And in order to really get ahead of this problem, 631 00:32:01,413 --> 00:32:04,517 we need to be thinking more in an innovative way, uh, 632 00:32:04,620 --> 00:32:06,931 just as the criminals do in the cyber world. 633 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,827 EBNER: Somewhere on this planet, 634 00:32:08,931 --> 00:32:11,724 those computers are humming 635 00:32:11,793 --> 00:32:15,137 and they are creating Bitcoin revenue 636 00:32:15,206 --> 00:32:18,068 for somebody somewhere. 637 00:32:18,827 --> 00:32:22,206 Is it just some amorphous Mr. X? 638 00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:24,206 We don't know. 639 00:32:25,344 --> 00:32:30,137 But those 550 computers-- 640 00:32:30,241 --> 00:32:32,586 I can guarantee you 641 00:32:32,655 --> 00:32:35,862 they didn't wind up in a waste dump somewhere. 642 00:32:39,827 --> 00:32:42,000 Whoever this mysterious "Mr. X" may be, 643 00:32:42,103 --> 00:32:45,448 it appears that, for him, crime does pay, 644 00:32:45,517 --> 00:32:47,896 at least in Bitcoin. 645 00:32:47,965 --> 00:32:50,551 But is money, in all its forms, 646 00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:53,206 the ultimate drug for the criminal mind? 647 00:32:54,379 --> 00:32:56,172 Or are there some things 648 00:32:56,275 --> 00:32:59,000 that are even more enticing? 649 00:32:59,068 --> 00:33:01,862 Perhaps the answer can be found by examining 650 00:33:01,931 --> 00:33:04,896 the case of the man who stole the brain 651 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,241 of the world's smartest man, 652 00:33:08,310 --> 00:33:10,000 Albert Einstein. 653 00:33:19,551 --> 00:33:21,931 SHATNER: Albert Einstein, the celebrated physicist 654 00:33:22,034 --> 00:33:25,310 considered to be the father of modern physics, 655 00:33:25,413 --> 00:33:27,241 dies at the age of 76. 656 00:33:29,448 --> 00:33:31,758 While Einstein's wish is to be cremated, 657 00:33:31,827 --> 00:33:35,862 Princeton hospital chief pathologist Thomas Harvey 658 00:33:35,931 --> 00:33:38,896 must first determine the cause of death. 659 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,103 But with the body of Albert Einstein 660 00:33:41,172 --> 00:33:42,827 on the autopsy table, 661 00:33:42,931 --> 00:33:47,310 Harvey's interest is drawn to something else. 662 00:33:47,413 --> 00:33:49,310 He wanted to find out 663 00:33:49,379 --> 00:33:52,655 what made Albert Einstein tick. 664 00:33:54,310 --> 00:33:56,689 And he sees, "Wow, there's the source 665 00:33:56,793 --> 00:33:59,000 of it all. The brain." 666 00:33:59,068 --> 00:34:02,310 LEPORE: There was something about the brain that fascinated him. 667 00:34:02,413 --> 00:34:04,310 And with no small amount of effort, 668 00:34:04,413 --> 00:34:06,551 he cut the skull, removed the brain, 669 00:34:06,655 --> 00:34:08,482 perfused it with formaldehyde, 670 00:34:08,551 --> 00:34:11,103 and the next morning The New York Timessays 671 00:34:11,172 --> 00:34:14,586 that Thomas Harvey has preserved the brain for scientific study. 672 00:34:15,448 --> 00:34:17,448 SHATNER: Thomas Harvey believed 673 00:34:17,551 --> 00:34:20,206 that somewhere within Einstein's brain 674 00:34:20,275 --> 00:34:23,000 was the secret to his genius. 675 00:34:23,896 --> 00:34:27,000 So he persuaded Einstein's son, Hans Albert, 676 00:34:27,103 --> 00:34:30,965 to let him do a study of his father's brain. 677 00:34:31,931 --> 00:34:34,068 LEPORE: Hans Albert and Einstein's executor 678 00:34:34,137 --> 00:34:36,137 came down to speak to Harvey about it. 679 00:34:36,206 --> 00:34:40,965 And Harvey impressed upon them just the uniqueness 680 00:34:41,034 --> 00:34:44,000 and criticality of looking at Einstein's brain 681 00:34:44,068 --> 00:34:46,793 as a way of approaching how people 682 00:34:46,896 --> 00:34:48,931 of intellect and genius think. 683 00:34:51,034 --> 00:34:55,034 SHATNER: Harvey took more than a dozen photos of Einstein's brain, 684 00:34:55,103 --> 00:34:58,310 dissected it, and shaved off thin slices 685 00:34:58,379 --> 00:35:00,034 for microscopic study. 686 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,758 But years passed, and Harvey never published 687 00:35:03,827 --> 00:35:06,655 any papers or scientific observations. 688 00:35:06,724 --> 00:35:08,793 He also never returned the brain, 689 00:35:08,862 --> 00:35:10,551 but, rather, stole it 690 00:35:10,620 --> 00:35:12,827 and kept it for himself 691 00:35:12,896 --> 00:35:15,862 with no intention of ever giving it back. 692 00:35:16,724 --> 00:35:18,689 Once Thomas Harvey had the brain, 693 00:35:18,793 --> 00:35:22,517 he didn't let it out of his sight. 694 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:25,827 He left his position as chief of pathology 695 00:35:25,931 --> 00:35:27,482 at Princeton Hospital, 696 00:35:27,551 --> 00:35:30,517 and he headed out to the Midwest, 697 00:35:30,620 --> 00:35:32,137 and he went into general practice. 698 00:35:32,241 --> 00:35:34,344 But the brain was always with him 699 00:35:34,448 --> 00:35:38,172 stored in two large glass jars 700 00:35:38,241 --> 00:35:40,379 and in cardboard boxes. 701 00:35:41,241 --> 00:35:43,758 EBNER: There's been a historical trend 702 00:35:43,827 --> 00:35:47,689 of examining the brains or the gray matter 703 00:35:47,758 --> 00:35:51,448 of geniuses to try and find out 704 00:35:51,551 --> 00:35:53,896 what makes them tick. 705 00:35:54,931 --> 00:35:58,344 For instance, the Brain Institute in Moscow 706 00:35:58,448 --> 00:36:02,413 has kept the brains of dictator Vladimir Lenin 707 00:36:02,517 --> 00:36:06,241 and around 200 Russian scientists 708 00:36:06,344 --> 00:36:09,482 on a dusty shelf for years hoping that 709 00:36:09,586 --> 00:36:11,724 they may, too, one day 710 00:36:11,793 --> 00:36:15,310 unlock the secrets of genius. 711 00:36:15,379 --> 00:36:18,965 But there's a fine line 712 00:36:19,068 --> 00:36:22,034 between science and grave robbing. 713 00:36:22,965 --> 00:36:26,586 Harvey got a little bit greedy here, because 714 00:36:26,655 --> 00:36:30,310 not only did he swipe Einstein's brain, 715 00:36:30,413 --> 00:36:34,793 it was basically a memento for him to have on his shelf. 716 00:36:34,896 --> 00:36:38,172 You'd think that the next of kin might have something 717 00:36:38,275 --> 00:36:40,034 to say about it. 718 00:36:40,103 --> 00:36:43,379 LEPORE: Harvey segued from his job, 719 00:36:43,482 --> 00:36:45,655 which is to determine the cause of death of a patient 720 00:36:45,724 --> 00:36:47,551 at Princeton Hospital, and he did that 721 00:36:47,655 --> 00:36:49,931 when he completed the autopsy. 722 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,896 And at that point, all we know is that 723 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,379 he didn't want to hand it over. And that's why he said, 724 00:36:54,448 --> 00:36:56,620 "I keep Einstein's brain. 725 00:36:56,689 --> 00:36:58,724 I'm the pathologist, and I'm studying it." 726 00:37:00,655 --> 00:37:04,103 SHATNER: Two decades after the death of Albert Einstein, 727 00:37:04,172 --> 00:37:06,793 the rest of his body had been cremated, 728 00:37:06,896 --> 00:37:08,724 his wife and children had passed away, 729 00:37:08,793 --> 00:37:11,206 and the world had all but forgotten 730 00:37:11,310 --> 00:37:14,172 about what happened to the famed physicist's brain. 731 00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:18,310 But that all changed in 1978, 732 00:37:18,379 --> 00:37:20,931 when a young reporter named Steven Levy 733 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,620 tracked down the whereabouts of Einstein's brain 734 00:37:23,689 --> 00:37:25,517 for a magazine article 735 00:37:25,586 --> 00:37:27,827 and discovered that Thomas Harvey 736 00:37:27,931 --> 00:37:30,931 was still in possession of Einstein's brain. 737 00:37:31,724 --> 00:37:33,689 EBNER: Levy wrote about this, 738 00:37:33,793 --> 00:37:36,103 and all of a sudden, 739 00:37:36,206 --> 00:37:39,379 it brought renewed interest 740 00:37:39,482 --> 00:37:43,103 to what in the hell was going on with Albert Einstein's brain. 741 00:37:43,172 --> 00:37:46,068 So the medical community was scratching their heads. 742 00:37:46,137 --> 00:37:48,827 They were like, "Okay, he's got the brain, 743 00:37:48,931 --> 00:37:51,551 "in pieces as it were. 744 00:37:51,655 --> 00:37:53,310 Let's have a closer look." 745 00:37:53,379 --> 00:37:55,103 SHATNER: As it turns out, 746 00:37:55,206 --> 00:37:57,793 when Harvey gave back the dissected pieces of the brain, 747 00:37:57,862 --> 00:38:00,413 scientists made a remarkable discovery. 748 00:38:01,379 --> 00:38:05,758 A discovery that could finally reveal the secret 749 00:38:05,827 --> 00:38:08,620 behind Einstein's genius. 750 00:38:17,655 --> 00:38:21,241 SHATNER: Neurologist Frederick Lepore is given the rare opportunity 751 00:38:21,310 --> 00:38:25,896 to photograph the remains of Einstein's brain. 752 00:38:27,310 --> 00:38:29,793 The pathologist brought out two jars 753 00:38:29,896 --> 00:38:33,413 containing little gauze-wrapped cubes 754 00:38:33,517 --> 00:38:37,241 which were the remaining sections of Einstein's brain. 755 00:38:37,344 --> 00:38:40,827 That's a very interesting and provocative moment. 756 00:38:41,758 --> 00:38:43,620 How did that inanimate brain tissue 757 00:38:43,724 --> 00:38:45,931 develop world-shaking theories? 758 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,344 And the process begins 759 00:38:48,413 --> 00:38:50,068 by looking at the anatomy 760 00:38:50,137 --> 00:38:52,517 and trying to see if it can give us 761 00:38:52,620 --> 00:38:54,896 some answers to the question of, 762 00:38:54,965 --> 00:38:57,896 "Why was Einstein such a profound genius?" 763 00:38:59,965 --> 00:39:02,862 SHATNER: What made Albert Einstein different? 764 00:39:02,931 --> 00:39:05,689 It's a question that Thomas Harvey first asked 765 00:39:05,758 --> 00:39:09,206 in 1955 and one that led him to steal 766 00:39:09,275 --> 00:39:12,413 Einstein's brain in hopes of getting an answer. 767 00:39:13,344 --> 00:39:15,793 I had the opportunity to meet with Thomas Harvey 768 00:39:15,862 --> 00:39:19,310 in retirement in the spring of 2000. 769 00:39:19,379 --> 00:39:22,620 He had never really had given up that dream 770 00:39:22,689 --> 00:39:24,551 of trying to, 771 00:39:24,655 --> 00:39:26,551 from every possible avenue, 772 00:39:26,655 --> 00:39:28,448 look at this piece of tissue 773 00:39:28,551 --> 00:39:30,517 and try to come up with answers 774 00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:32,965 as to Einstein's genius. 775 00:39:33,862 --> 00:39:37,241 SHATNER: In 2007, Thomas Harvey died 776 00:39:37,344 --> 00:39:39,137 of a cerebral hemorrhage. 777 00:39:39,241 --> 00:39:42,000 Ironically, because Thomas Harvey 778 00:39:42,068 --> 00:39:45,827 stole Einstein's brain and preserved it for so many years, 779 00:39:45,931 --> 00:39:48,137 scientists had the opportunity 780 00:39:48,241 --> 00:39:50,862 to examine it with modern technology. 781 00:39:51,827 --> 00:39:54,896 And when they did, they discovered that the brain 782 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:59,103 of this visionary genius was, in fact, different. 783 00:39:59,172 --> 00:40:02,551 JOHN MARTIN: Neuroscientists found that Einstein's brain 784 00:40:02,655 --> 00:40:04,689 had enlarged parietal lobes. 785 00:40:04,793 --> 00:40:07,586 And, in addition, they found 786 00:40:07,689 --> 00:40:09,137 that part of the parietal lobe, 787 00:40:09,241 --> 00:40:11,827 instead of having all these grooves, 788 00:40:11,896 --> 00:40:15,586 it was sort of an enlarged, flattened area. 789 00:40:15,655 --> 00:40:18,551 Uh, and so it looked quite remarkable. 790 00:40:19,586 --> 00:40:22,206 LEPORE: The parietal lobe is an area of the brain 791 00:40:22,275 --> 00:40:25,000 that helps us with visuospatial recognition, 792 00:40:25,068 --> 00:40:28,206 and neuropathologist's conclusion 793 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:30,965 was the exceptional brain of Albert Einstein 794 00:40:31,068 --> 00:40:33,862 was due to the parietal lobe being 795 00:40:33,931 --> 00:40:36,620 anatomically different from the human norm. 796 00:40:36,689 --> 00:40:39,137 EBNER: I think that Thomas Harvey 797 00:40:39,241 --> 00:40:42,137 might have been pleased that by just 798 00:40:42,241 --> 00:40:44,655 hanging on to that brain for so many years 799 00:40:44,724 --> 00:40:47,172 and having it looked at by professionals, 800 00:40:47,241 --> 00:40:50,655 some sort of credibility had rubbed off on him, 801 00:40:50,758 --> 00:40:52,655 so that he, in turn, 802 00:40:52,758 --> 00:40:54,931 could become more respected 803 00:40:55,034 --> 00:40:57,827 as a man of science. 804 00:40:58,655 --> 00:41:00,724 LEVINE: People want to stand out. 805 00:41:00,827 --> 00:41:02,862 They want recognition. 806 00:41:02,931 --> 00:41:04,896 And the bigger the crime, 807 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,034 your notoriety of committing that crime lasts forever. 808 00:41:08,965 --> 00:41:11,068 HO: In understanding the criminal mind, 809 00:41:11,137 --> 00:41:13,103 it's a certain type of psychological profile 810 00:41:13,206 --> 00:41:14,896 that makes people feel like they can sort of 811 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,862 not follow society's rules. 812 00:41:16,965 --> 00:41:19,034 They kind of buck authority, 813 00:41:19,137 --> 00:41:21,482 but they have their own authority, and their authority 814 00:41:21,586 --> 00:41:24,137 is their internal sense of right and wrong. 815 00:41:27,344 --> 00:41:30,103 SHATNER: It seems that no matter how hard we try, 816 00:41:30,172 --> 00:41:32,965 we just can't seem to figure out the criminal mind. 817 00:41:33,896 --> 00:41:36,275 But, then again, do we really want to? 818 00:41:36,344 --> 00:41:39,965 Because if we could truly put ourselves in the shoes 819 00:41:40,034 --> 00:41:42,931 of someone who is always 820 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,896 scheming, and plotting, and thrill-seeking, 821 00:41:47,965 --> 00:41:51,379 then we might just be tempted to take a chance 822 00:41:51,448 --> 00:41:55,034 and carry out a daring heist of our own. 823 00:41:56,655 --> 00:41:58,137 So perhaps it's better for us 824 00:41:58,241 --> 00:42:01,758 that the mind of a master criminal remains... 825 00:42:01,827 --> 00:42:04,000 unexplained. 826 00:42:04,103 --> 00:42:05,586 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS 64474

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