A Perfect Crime

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Meanderer

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A Perfect Crime

"In the late 1970s or early 1980s, a person opened an account in a bank, got a bunch of temporary deposit slips and then replaced the generic slips in the lobby with the temporary deposit slips on the first of the month. When a teller receives a deposit slip, he looks at the bottom to see if it has the magnetic ink account numbers, and if they are their he runs them through to auto-populate the account information. These magnetic ink numbers are not on the bottom of the generic slips, but are at the bottom of the temporary ones. For an entire month, people were depositing their money into his account. At the end of the month, he closed his account and disappeared. The theft was not discovered until people received their statements in the mail a couple of days later. The perpetrator was never caught".
 

Mama Mia, Nancy, that's a some a spicy Heist! ....have a slice?
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Meanderer said:
A Perfect Crime

"In the late 1970s or early 1980s, a person opened an account in a bank, got a bunch of temporary deposit slips and then replaced the generic slips in the lobby with the temporary deposit slips on the first of the month. When a teller receives a deposit slip, he looks at the bottom to see if it has the magnetic ink account numbers, and if they are their he runs them through to auto-populate the account information. These magnetic ink numbers are not on the bottom of the generic slips, but are at the bottom of the temporary ones. For an entire month, people were depositing their money into his account. At the end of the month, he closed his account and disappeared. The theft was not discovered until people received their statements in the mail a couple of days later. The perpetrator was never caught".
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Crafty, I'll say!
 

Patrick Alley is a director of Global Witness and co-founded the organisation in 1993. He took part in Global Witness' first investigations into the Thai-Khmer Rouge timber trade in 1995. Since then he has taken part in over fifty field investigations in South East Asia, Africa and Europe and in subsequent advocacy activities. In addition to his involvement in the organisation's experience of tackling conflict diamonds and the former Liberian President Charles Taylor's 'arms for timber' trade, Patrick focuses on the issue of conflict resources, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in the past in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. Patrick also specialises in Global Witness' work on forest and land issues, especially challenging industrial scale logging and land grabbing in the tropics. In addition, he is involved in the strategic leadership of Global Witness.
 
Can identical twins get away with murder?

George and Charles Finn.

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"The Finns were identical twins, both Air Corps veterans of World War II--George as a flight instructor, Charles as a B-17 pilot with 63 missions in Europe.

After their discharges, the Finns settled in Southern California, and in 1952 set about forming their own airline. They bought a surplus C-46 twin-engine transport for $21,000 from the Bakersfield school district, intending to refit it and operate it as the first ship of a non-scheduled airline called "The Flying Finn Twins Airline Inc."

But the federal government sued, claiming that the school district had no right to sell the plane, and the Finns decided to battle for their plane, using their own unorthodox methods. One of them stole the airplane, and hid it at a desert airport in Nevada.

Eventually the twins and their plane were found by the FBI. The Finns were charged with theft, but a federal grand jury refused to indict them because a key prosecution witness could not tell which of the identical twins stole the aircraft."

In trouble again ... From the Ottawa Citizen, Aug 11, 1960

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[h=1]The Perfect Crime May Be Possible in Yellowstone Park[/h]"A law professor at Michigan State University in 2004, Kalt needed to publish one article annually in order to be considered for tenure. He began researching the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, which stipulates that jurors in federal criminal trials must live in both the federal judicial district and the state where a crime was thought to be committed. His original idea had been to examine how some states allowed for a trial in one of two neighboring counties depending on how close the criminal act was to the dividing line: It’s a small but pivotal loophole that gives some prosecutors the unusual choice of being able to pick a location more receptive to their case".

"Kalt kept seeing repeated reference to the fact that district boundaries typically followed state lines, with one exception: the District of Wyoming. Time and again, the authors would indicate that it was of little significance. But Kalt was curious. What was different about Wyoming? And was it really so insignificant"?


"With limited time to write a paper before his baby arrived and diverted all his attention, Kalt decided to postpone his more involved initial idea and pursue the second. After more research, he discovered that Wyoming’s district geography was unique among the 50 states. As a result of some sloppy Congressional maneuvering, there exists a 50-square-mile zone in Yellowstone National Park where someone could—hypothetically—commit a crime and get away with it. Including murder".


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On Monday Fred, an old country farmer, bought a mule from Luke, another old farmer, for $100. Luke promised to deliver the mule the next day. On Tuesday Luke drove up and said, "Sorry, Fred, but I have some bad news. The mule died."

Fred: Well, then, just give me my money back.
Luke: Can't do that. I went and spent it already.

Fred: Well, OK then. Just unload the mule.

Luke: What ya gonna do with a dead mule?
Fred: I'm going to raffle him off.

Luke: You can't raffle off a dead mule!
Fred: Sure I can. I just won't tell anybody he's dead.

Several days later the two farmers meet up.

Luke: Whatever happened with that dead mule?
Fred: I raffled him off just like I said I would. Sold 500 tickets at $2 each!

Luke: Didn't anyone complain?
Fred: Just the guy who won. So I gave him his two dollars back.
 

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