Stealing Sisi’s Star: How a Master Thief Nearly Got Away by Jennifer Bowers Bahney PDF

By Jennifer Bowers Bahney

whereas on honeymoon in Vienna in June of 1998, on the peak of the vacationer season, Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an comprehensive thief, occurred upon the best problem of his existence while he noticed the final closing "Sisi superstar" on show in Schonbrunn Palace. Named after its former proprietor, the Empress Elisabeth, the ten-pointed diamond and pearl big name was once initially certainly one of 27 that the enigmatic Sisi wore in her extravagantly lengthy hair. regardless of the multi-layered protection method holding the worthwhile jewel, Blanchard made up our minds then and there to scouse borrow it.
The superstar remained lacking for 9 years till a workforce of Canadian police investigators introduced a joint activity strength to convey down a legal association that had robbed banks, shops and usual voters on a number of continents. while their leader suspect provided to bare the whereabouts of the Sisi famous person, the investigators learned they have been facing no usual thief. yet nobody keen on the case totally understood the background of the famous person, its ties to obsession, suicide and assassination.

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