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Ex-FBI Agent Answers Heist Questions

Former FBI Special Agent and member of the original FBI elite Art Crime Team Geoffrey Kelly joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning heist questions. How do you rob The Louvre in broad daylight? Is it true that Picasso once stole the Mona Lisa? Why don’t people do bank heists anymore? Answers to these questions…

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Former FBI Special Agent and member of the original FBI elite Art Crime Team Geoffrey Kelly joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning heist questions. How do you rob The Louvre in broad daylight? Is it true that Picasso once stole the Mona Lisa? Why don’t people do bank heists anymore? Answers to these questions and many more await on Heist Support.

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00:00 – Heist Support
00:11 – Frickin’ laser beams.
00:56 – Living rent-free in a federal database
01:18 – Mona Less-a by Lenny da Vinky
02:46 – Ben Affleck did his research
03:40 – Hang it in the Louvre
04:58 – For the culture, one masterpiece at a time
06:24 – Now you see me: now you don’t
07:13 – The perfect heist
08:23 – Ocean’s 11, but make it believable
09:01 – Picasso stole the Mona Lisa?
09:59 – Underground banking
10:48 – $150M hiding in plain sight
11:49 – Priceless ❌ Worthless ✅
13:27 – Pose for the archives
15:26 – $1 BILLION with a 🅱️
17:28 – Bank heists are so 90s
18:01 – Learning to be a criminal
19:43 – Curated by Monet, framed by Goering, seized by the FBI
21:28 – Mint condition, questionable acquisition
22:02 – Funded by grand larceny
23:09 – I got loyalty, got royalty, got digital trails inside my DNA
24:11 – Lukewarm on the trail

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35 Comments

  1. @BoosieBraun-q5s

    July 28, 2026 at 2:58 pm

    10:12 isn’t it Jason stay-tham and not Jason st-ah-tham becsause I been pronouncing it Jason stay-tham

    • @spoinkenjoyer

      July 28, 2026 at 3:17 pm

      Wikipedia says you’re pronouncing it correctly.

  2. @starlavasil9330

    July 28, 2026 at 3:14 pm

    stephane breitweiser is the definition of the gentlemen’s burglar – stole an estimated $2 BILLION worth of art all across europe and kept it all displayed in him and his wife’s attic bedroom. he loved art so much that it made him go klepto! there is a GREAT book about him called “the art thief” that reveals how he was able to do it without getting caught for so long

    • @carinbarbanel9356

      July 28, 2026 at 6:29 pm

      Yea but his mother destroyed all of it, terrifying loss to culture

    • @ΣτελιοςΠεππας

      July 28, 2026 at 6:38 pm

      This is the kind of case that makes me want to reinstate hangings as a punishment.

  3. @andriusdiaz

    July 28, 2026 at 3:43 pm

    Let me guess They’re gonna blame Trump for something.

    • @One_True_God_Leith

      July 28, 2026 at 3:51 pm

      Why would Trump come up at all? His crimes don’t include things like burglary or breaking and entering.

    • @Dayvit78

      July 28, 2026 at 8:08 pm

      Tds much?

  4. @SchlawinerUSA

    July 28, 2026 at 3:43 pm

    Meanwhile in Germany, Gelsenkirchen, they drilled through Walls into the Bank out of a parkgarage Next to the Bank 😂 in 2026

  5. @juliastucky615

    July 28, 2026 at 3:50 pm

    Is this guy the real life Peter Burke?

  6. @mbgal7758

    July 28, 2026 at 3:56 pm

    I would think a lot of these high end thefts may already have a buyer in place before they even plan the theft. Like some Chinese billionaire wants some piece of jewelry or art and they contact a thief to do the job

    • @thehomeschoolinglibrarian

      July 28, 2026 at 5:27 pm

      I agree. Few art thieves these days are going to just go steal art. These thieves are going to be hired by wealthy men in Russia, the Middle East, Asia and maybe even parts of Africa and South America.

    • @wpdoyle

      July 28, 2026 at 8:37 pm

      @thehomeschoolinglibrarianIf that’s true, where’s your evidence?

  7. @trusty7542

    July 28, 2026 at 4:01 pm

    10:12 “Jason Stratham” ? Never heard of him 🤣

    • @hotdogs4h

      July 28, 2026 at 6:34 pm

      He was in the Tansporter movies

  8. @elianabeebe7494

    July 28, 2026 at 4:11 pm

    If anyone is interested in the process of determining the history of a piece, check out baumgartner restoration! He does some great explanations in his video

  9. @jdawg218

    July 28, 2026 at 5:53 pm

    Implement dei

  10. @racheldarnell8645

    July 28, 2026 at 6:26 pm

    10:27 It literally happened in Germany this year. Someone or someones went through I think a parking garage wall into a bank’s safety deposit room. I think it was a Sparkasse.

  11. @jadyassine8484

    July 28, 2026 at 6:29 pm

    For anyone curious, the Gardner museum has kept the frames of the stolen artwork on the walls. All you see are the frames; it’s quite the sight.

  12. @taren1d

    July 28, 2026 at 6:48 pm

    11:03 where my mystery files fans at ?!?

  13. @Holmes-w1r

    July 28, 2026 at 7:19 pm

    waw

  14. @ashley9534

    July 28, 2026 at 7:20 pm

    Criminals are gonna love this video

  15. @johndoe3328

    July 28, 2026 at 7:22 pm

    What percentage of bank robbers get away with it?

    • @Dayvit78

      July 28, 2026 at 8:06 pm

      Used to be alot. Now it’s almost none.

  16. @anyankafan

    July 28, 2026 at 7:32 pm

    I mean, Catherine Zeta Jones only practiced with visible lasers. During the actual heist they were invisible…

  17. @johnpooley3

    July 28, 2026 at 7:39 pm

    Bruh the isabella stewart gardner heist was never solved

    • @wpdoyle

      July 28, 2026 at 8:35 pm

      That’s half true. They know who did it but the works are still missing.

  18. @Yourmission9

    July 28, 2026 at 8:10 pm

    Great episode.

  19. @exactlyexactly

    July 28, 2026 at 8:12 pm

    Stop platforming pigs

  20. @BubbleGumzKorner

    July 28, 2026 at 8:33 pm

    Plenty of RICH rich people absolutely want to purchase stolen art.

    Ask the people that bought the Gardner Museum paintings for their private collections

  21. @TotysGarage89

    July 28, 2026 at 8:38 pm

    “a failed artist in his own Reich”

  22. @nuevarine

    July 28, 2026 at 8:47 pm

    This pro-AI surveillance tech is not going to be used ethically and we all know it.

  23. @EmmaElizabethX

    July 28, 2026 at 8:53 pm

    Really enjoyed this! But makes me more frustrated that a family member’s murder was made a cold case after a few years while art is always still open. Guess it depends on who investigates.

  24. @shushyeah

    July 28, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    The biggest looters in Iraq were the US MILITARY!!!

  25. @torenatkinson5708

    July 28, 2026 at 9:25 pm

    10:03 also Larceny, Inc(1942), also Ladykillers (both versions?)

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