Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

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Hey, it's Alan, and I wanted to share a new crime show with you that I think you're really

going to love. It's called A Most Audacious Heist. A Most Audacious Heist is a gripping

true crime story filled with all kinds of ambition and risk and obsession as it follows the exploits of a 19th century empress and a 20th century thief.

Their fates are intertwined by the same dazzling treasure, a perfect cluster of diamonds known as the Cecey Star.

Empress Elizabeth of Austria loves her jewels, and she uses them to defy the rules and

carve out her own legacy of beauty and power.

And the episode that I got for you today is the first in the series, and it's hosted by

Sarin Jones from the award-winning podcast Black and Blue.

In this episode, Petty Crook Daniel Blanchard spots the Crown Jewel as a tourist and becomes

enamored by it. This is the challenge he's been waiting for. He plans to steal it in a high-stakes

daring nighttime parachute jump. Yeah, parachute jump. He knows that if he gets his hands on

the star, he will be launched into the criminal big leagues. His exploits unleash an international manhut,

as determined police attempt to track him down. But somehow, Daniel manages to elude them each time.

But how long can C.C. Starr stay lucky for Daniel? Listen to find out and then search

for a most audacious heist wherever you're listening to right now.

It's June 1998, long past midnight, and we're in the air, about a mile above Vienna, the

Austrian capital.

In a small plane, a slight man squats on the floor.

There are no lights, just the red glow from the instruments in the cockpit.

This is a clandestine mission to a world-famous target. The man cannot risk being seen.

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