In Broad Daylight, At One of the World's Busiest Airports, $100 Million Simply Vanished
February 25, 2005. Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. 3:30 PM.
Four KLM employees were doing their jobs, transferring a routine diamond shipment to an Antwerp-bound aircraft. Within sixty seconds, armed men in stolen uniforms had terrorized the workers and vanished with one of the largest jewelry heists in history.
What followed was a mystery that would haunt investigators for over a decade.
THE SCHIPHOL DIAMOND HEIST reveals the shocking true story of how a criminal mastermind and his crew pulled off what many considered the perfect airport robbery-and how they almost got away with it.
Inside This Explosive Investigation:
The Inside Job: How airport employees sold access to Europe's diamond highway
Military Precision: The planning and execution of a $100 million theft
The Great Escape: How they vanished into Amsterdam traffic with priceless cargo
Cold Case Files: Twelve years of dead ends and breakthrough moments
Justice Served: The dramatic arrests and trials that finally closed the case
But the most shocking revelation? $43 million in diamonds are still missing.
Some diamonds are forever. Some crimes are unforgettable.
The truth is more incredible than any heist movie