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Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Diamond Wheezers: Aging Thieves Plan One Final Heist

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.730.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A 76-year-old career criminal leads a crew of pensioner thieves in Britain’s biggest-ever burglary—an “Ocean’s Eleven with bad knees” that nets £14 million in loot.Sources for this episode include:The Last Job: The Bad Grandpas and the Hatton Garden Heist by Dan BilefskyHatton Garden: The Inside Story (2019) Directed by Tim Conrad“One last job: the inside story of the Hatton Garden heist” (The Guardian, 2016) by Duncan Campbell Keep up with Killer Stories! Instagram: @killerstoriespodTikTok: @killerstoriespodX: @killerstorieshq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Death comes for everyone.

0:11.3

But humans never stop trying to bargain.

0:14.1

As long as we've felt time closing in, we've chased myths and miracle stories about

0:19.3

springs that can rewind the clock or help us outrun the end.

0:24.1

The fountain of youth might be the oldest of them.

0:27.1

A shimmering promise that somewhere out there is a way to live forever.

0:33.1

In 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon sailed north from Puerto Rico.

0:37.1

Officially, he was looking for new land, but, legend says,

0:41.4

he was also chasing that fountain.

0:44.2

A middle-aged conquistador desperate to reclaim what time had already taken.

0:49.4

To carve his name into history before history,

0:52.7

erased him.

0:54.9

He never found immortality.

0:57.4

He found Florida.

0:59.3

But the impulse behind his journey never died.

1:02.8

It just change his faces across centuries.

1:06.1

That same hunger, the refusal to fade quietly is what drives today's story, about a retired

1:12.2

criminal chasing his own private fountain, one perfect final heist to bring his name and

1:18.7

his life back from the dead.

1:22.8

Let me ask you, when the fear of fading, said Sen, what would you risk to outrun it?

1:32.9

I'm Harvey Guillain, and this is Killer Stories.

1:37.3

I'm Harvey Guillain, and this is Killer Stories. It's 2015.

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