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Lufthansa Heist - College Papers

Lufthansa Heist

Shannon Smith
Criminal Investigations Writing
Professor Rossi
October 18[th] 2011

The Lufthansa heist has gone down to be the biggest robberies in the U.S. The Robbery was done at the John F. Kennedy International airport on December 11[th] 1978. A total of 5 million dollars and $875,000 worth of jewels were stolen. Louis Werner was a supervisor of the Lufthansa Airlines. He was the brains behind the robbery. When Werner knew about the two million dollar shipment arriving from Franklin International Bank that's when Jimmy planned the perfect robbery. Jimmy Burke was an associate to the Lucchese mafia family, since Jimmy was Irish he couldn't be official sworn in as a made member of ...

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pay out. Undercover detectives started frequenting bars talking to women about the heist and within twenty four hours they knew the whole story behind the robbery. Being able to prove that Jimmy, Tommy and Frank were behind the robbery would take more than that. They needed some type of forensic evidence or to have someone talking about what went down which no one at the time was doing. The detectives finally caught a break when the van describe by a witness was spotted in the NYC area. The plan was to have another crew member by the name Steven "Stacks" Edwards get the van crushed by a mob controlled junk yard. But that night Stacks got drunk and high and was never able to take the van into New Jersey to have the van destroyed. The next day when the press got wind of a finger print being left in the van; Jimmy Burke knew right away that it was Stack's fingerprint found in the van, because he and the other crew members wore gloves. Burke then decided that Stacks connection to ...

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Added: 4/18/2012 01:11:36 AM
Submitted By: MsSade
Category: Legal Issues
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