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Foreign Crimes
The Heist
Jan. 20, 2010
Tony Musulin
It’s always about the money – but was it this time? No one had heard of security van driver Tony Musulin until he drove off with $16.7 million – France’s biggest robbery ever – without having even uttered one threatening word.
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A Father’s Revenge
Nov. 19, 2009
André Bamberski
For 27 years the heartbroken André Bamberski kept an eye on the fugitive serial rapist who murdered his 14-year-old daughter. Then he arranged a vigilante kidnapping to deliver the murderer to the police.
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Catch Me If You Can
Oct. 26, 2009 Updated March 9, 2010
Treiber Police Photo
Awaiting trial for murder, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Treiber goes on the run and makes the police look like idiots.
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The Steward, the Steamship and the Missing Starlet
March 8, 2009
The Durban Castle Steamship
At noon, shining Chevrolets and Fords began pulling up beside the large white steamship with the lavender hull and the black and red funnel anchored along the quayside.
From the automobiles stepped middle-aged ladies in frumpy summer frocks, comfortable shoes and small feathered hats, all clutching purses in which were the medication they were certain they would need for seasickness on the 14-day voyage that lay ahead.
At the ladies' sides were their husbands; men who were also no longer in their prime wearing their double-breasted suits cut by London or New York's best tailors and their fedoras bought in Paris or Rome.
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The Cons-Boutboul Case
February 9, 2009
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| Courtroom sketch of Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul |
As the murder trial of 70-year-old Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul opened in Paris on March 2, 1994, the question on everyone's lips was not, "Is she guilty?" but, "Which role is she going to play?"
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The Murder of Céline Jourdan
January 25, 2009
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| Céline Jourdan, age 6, went missing from her home in the tiny village of La-Motte-du-Caire. | |
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Daisy de Melker: South Africa's First Serial Killer
December 02, 2007
Daisy de Melker, mugshot 1932
No one present at the birth of Daisy Louisa Hancorn-Smith had reason to believe that she would one day be famous or, for that matter, infamous. A generation would grow up before a baby girl born in South Africa would again be named Daisy – such was the unpleasant odor that clung to the name.
It was Thursday, June 1, 1886. The place was Seven Fountains, 25 miles from the town of Grahamstown, in the British Cape Colony. The city of Cape Town was 550 miles further south.
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