If you're anything like me, you love a good heist movie.

The truth is, you usually know exactly what you're going to get, what the structure is

going to be.

It draws you in with the recruitment stage.

We meet the cast of criminals, their specialized skill sets, then there are the montages.

These wonderful planning montages that get you invested in the plan and the scheme.

And finally, when they pull off this impossible heist, it is just so satisfying.

It's like eating your favorite dessert.

You know exactly what you ordered, and you would like two of them, please.

All the better, when a heist is set at a world famous museum, and the object of desire

is a centuries old painted.

These heists usually involve the kind of criminal who wears expensive suits and knows how to

talk their way out of any situation.

And then, when these modern day Robin Hoods get away with millions of dollars in stolen

art, the audience is always rooting for them.

But that concept of this elegant gentlemanly thief from perhaps even non-violent who stealing

art for the thrill of it, that is almost entirely an invention of fiction.

That's Noah Charney.

He is a professor and academic specializing in art crime.

He spent much of his life's work helping catch the very criminals that movies portray

as so debonair and elusive.

And while life is not like the movies, sometimes truth is more intriguing than fiction.

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