S18 Ep46: Stealing Manhattan: The Untold Story of America’s Billion Dollar Gem Heist Masterminds w/Burl Barer & Punch Stanimirovic
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Burl Barer is an Edgar Award winning author and accomplished media professional, with a career spanning several decades. Among his many books, his WildBlue Press true crime classic, MURDER IN THE FAMILY, is ranked #3 on the "Ten Best True Crime Books Ever Written," and he is listed as one of America's 100 "MUST READ" authors.
Punch Stanimirovic, an infamous safe cracker and forger, could punch open a safe in under sixteen seconds. He was also a master “aerosol artist” whose street art inspired Sean Sullivan aka Layercakeny and the youngest and highest-ranking member of the YACS/ Pink Panthers. He served sixteen years in prison where he became an in-demand tattoo artist for the Latin Kings. Punch was born to wealth and raised to be an exceptional diamond thief, but his true love was always art. After a period of criminal activity, he turned away from his life of crime and brought art therapy programs to American prisons.
Both men appear on today's program to talk about Mr. Stan (Punch's father) the greatest Gentleman Thief to ever live, Punch's relationship with his father, Punch's training and history, and how a 15 year old makes 20 million dollars!
PLUS, AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH BEER CITY BRUISER!
Get your copy of "Stealing Manhattan..." here: https://wildbluepress.com/stealing-manhattan-true-crime/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.5 | This is True Crime Tuesday on your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.4 | How to Good Show for You Today Folks. |
| 0:53.8 | Today's program is dealing with a book called Stealing Man Hat in the Untold Story of America's |
| 0:59.2 | Billion Dollar Gem Heist Mastermind. |
| 1:03.1 | I had some time to sit down with this book this weekend and was thoroughly enthralled with |
| 1:08.3 | it. |
| 1:09.3 | I love the movies that have to do with jewel heist, art heists, the million and billion |
| 1:16.5 | dollar movies that you see with the Swav Debenair Hero or Antihero. |
| 1:21.7 | And so when I sat down with this book, it was just enthralling to me. |
| 1:26.4 | But then you learned about kind of how some of that can be glorified. |
| 1:30.9 | And maybe there's not such an easy side to it. |
| 1:35.0 | But I was still enthralled with this book. |
| 1:38.0 | We have two guests with us today. |
| 1:40.3 | Burl Bear is the author of this book or put this book together. |
| 1:45.4 | Burl Bear is an Edgar award winning author and accomplished media professional with career |
| 1:52.6 | spanning several decades. |
| 1:54.4 | Among as many books his Wild Blue Press True Crime classic Murder in the Family is ranked |
| 1:58.7 | number three on the 10 Best True Crime Books Ever Written. |
| 2:02.9 | A distinguished guest we have with us today. |
| 2:05.0 | He's also listed as one of America's 100 Must Read Authors. |
| 2:11.0 | One Stun Mutevich is an infamous safe cracker and forger. |
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