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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 the Lucchese family.
Within three or four days following the robbery, the FBI had a good idea who was behind the robbery. They had narrowed it down to two crews. The John Gotti crew from Howard Beach and the Jimmy Burke crew from Ozone Park. The robbery was an extensively thought out plan and was carried out in such a remarkable way they got out in under a hour; to them they got away with the perfect crime. They expect to walk out with a few million dollars but they didn't expect a 5 million dollar 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 ...
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