13 Best Heist Podcasts

1. Empty Frames

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Season 1 is about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist: In the early hours of March 18th, 1990, two thieves posing as police officers were admitted into the Gardner Museum in Boston. In 81 minutes they stole 13 pieces of artwork, among the paintings stripped from their frames were works by Vermeer, Degas, and Rembrandt.Season 2 tackles other angles of art crime. We chat w/ owners of an antique store who found a famous stolen painting, we discuss a stolen da Vinci with Turbo, and we dig into Gardner heist minutia.Season 3 is back to the Gardner!more Hosts Tim Pilleri, Lance Reenstierna
Producer/Network Crawlspace Media
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Apple Rating 3.6/5Apple Reviews 501Facebook 514Twitter 1.2KInstagram 620 Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Video Podcast YouTube
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2. The Lazarus Heist

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Hackers, North Korea and billions of dollars. Lazarus returns in fact, the criminals never went away. Season 2 begins at an ATM, possibly near you. With Jean Lee and Geoff White. Investigators claim a secretive, elite North Korean hacking ring, nicknamed the Lazarus Group, is responsible for the theft of billions of dollars around the globe. Pyongyang denies having anything to do with cybercrimes, saying the United States is making these allegations to try to tarnish its image...more Hosts Jean H. Lee, Geoff White
Producer/Network BBC
Email ****@eastwestcenter.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 5.4KFacebook 62.1MTwitter 41.8MInstagram 995.2K Avg Length 29 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. Stealing Superman

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It was the most unlikely art heist of all time. Join some improbable detectives and one determined comic book dealer as they investigate the mysterious theft of the most important comic in the world ... a comic stolen from Nicolas Cage.more Host Dana Schwartz
Producer/Network iHeartPodcasts
Email ****@howstuffworks.com
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 251 Avg Length 40 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. Heist Club

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Welcome to Heist Club! We're here to uncover the details behind some of the most audacious and ridiculous robberies of all time. How they pulled it off. How they got caught. And the mysteries that remain. Bank heists, art heists, diamond heists and other capers you won't believe with plenty of movie references along the way. Welcome to the Club!more Host Virginia Prescott
Producer/Network School of Humans
Email ****@schoolofhumans.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 29 Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. A Most Audacious Heist

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A 19th-century empress chases eternal beauty, while a 20th-century thief risks everything to steal her crown jewel. Their fates are fixed to the same dazzling treasure: a perfect cluster of diamonds, the Sisi Star.  Empress Elisabeth of Austria loves that star. She uses it to defy the rules of her time and carve out her own legacy of beauty and power. Its pursuit drives her to her very limits.And when petty crook Daniel Blanchard spies the jewel, it's the challenge he's been waiting for. His plan to steal it is high-stakes: a daring night-time parachute jump...more Host Seren Jones
Producer/Network Curiouscast
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 210 Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. Heist

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Producer/Network Art Cop
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 4 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

7. Crime & Canvas Podcast—Uncovering the Gardner Heist!

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Step into the thrilling, decades-long investigation of the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Art Heist a crime whispered about for years, now believed to be solved. In Crime & Canvas , host Suzanne Kenney unveils a deeply personal journey that began with an act of betrayal against her own mother, Mary. What started as a quest for her mother's truth unexpectedly entangled Suzanne with one of history's most infamous art mysteries...more Host Suzanne Kenney
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8. Last Seen

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Season 4: 'Postmortem' is a National Murrow Award winning podcast (2025) about the stolen bodies of Harvard and the gray market for human remains. Find out what happened at Harvard Medical School: how body parts were stolen and sold across the country. Who did this and why?more Host Ally Jarmanning
Producer/Network WBUR
Email ****@wbur.org
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Apple Reviews 4K Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Since Jul 2018 Get Email Contact

9. Heist Podcast

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Miss the pod? Get our new Audio Book 'Heist This Book' Out Now!http://glow.fm/heistthisbookHEEEEIIISST!Hello Heist Nation! I'm Simon and I'm Matt! Long time no heeeeeist!We got a little hankering for some heistering and so we put together an audiobook all about heists! Its dives deep into everything heist, an info dump of all the cool stuff we learned over the years.Five Chapters1 - Vaults2 - Advanced Heist Techniques3 - Fort Knox4 - Getting away with it / Aftermath5 - The Turkey HeistChapter 5 is something special you've all been asking for!A PLAY-BY-PLAY OF HOW WE WOULD PULL OFF AN OCEAN'S..more Hosts Matt, Sie
Producer/Network Matt And Sie
Email ****@heistpodcast.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 802Facebook 592Twitter 2KInstagram 3.2K Avg Length 36 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

10. The Score: Bank Robber Diaries

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14 months. 30 Banks. An all-access pass into the mind of one of Southern California's most prolific bank robbers. On the show, Joe Loya - the so-called 'Beirut Bandit' - reveals his story of transformation from abusive childhood to prolific bank robber, violent convict, ex-con, writer and ultimately, a reconciled son. Produced by Peabody-Award winning podcaster Ben Adair (The Sterling Affairs, Dr. Death, Reveal) at Western Sound in partnership with Acast Studios. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.more Host Joe Loya
Producer/Network Acast Studios & Western Sound
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 2.2K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

11. Attila: Heists and Hockey

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Attila Ambrus clings to a train connector, fleeing Romanian dictatorship in the hopes of a life of freedom in post-Soviet Hungary. What actually awaits is a life of bank robbery, governmental conspiracy, and some of the worst hockey ever played. Imagine if 'Catch Me If You Can' was really, really dumb.Welcome to a true crime/sports podcast about the most ludicrous heists in history, perpetrated by the drunkest goalie to ever lace up skates.more Host Casey Bryant
Producer/Network CB Podcasting
Email ****@yahoo.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 8 Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. Robbery, Inc.

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In April 1974, a group of thieves tunneled beneath Roswell Street in Marietta, Georgia, and blasted their way into the Cobb Exchange Bank vault—only to be mocked for escaping with just $1,000. But as investigators dug deeper, they uncovered a far bigger mystery and the story of a career bank robber whose daring heists and prison escapes made him a legend. This is Robbery, Inc. from Georgia Public Broadcasting and the Marietta Daily Journal.more Host Madison Elizabeth Hogan
Email ****@gpb.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 22 Avg Length 25 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

13. The High Roller Heist

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In the early morning hours of December 14th, 2010, Anthony 'Tony' Carleo will walk into the Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip adorned in a full motorcycle jumpsuit, gloves and helmet and pull a pistol, robbing a high stakes craps table of 1.5 million dollars in casino chips. This is the wild, 'only in Vegas' true story of the guy who robbed the house, returned to the house and began living in it, like a king, for free.'Fun and addicting, kind of like gambling' Paste Magazine, Most Bingeworthy Podcasts of 2024 (So Far)more Host Anthony Carleo
Producer/Network Wavland
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 1.1K Avg Length 20 min Format Short form Get Email Contact