(stealthy music)
- Oh, oh, shh!
Yes, yes, I'm in a new place.
I had to get away, hide out from the man.
With all the technology that law enforcement has these days,
it's hard to imagine anyone fully getting away with a crime.
Cameras, DNA evidence and other scientific-y things
make it next to impossible, but there are some cases
from the past that are still open,
where the culprit of a crime was never caught.
Here are 10 infamous criminals who were never caught.
Number 10 is D. B. Cooper.
D. B. Cooper not only evaded authorities,
but he completely disappeared.
Boarding a Northwest Orient Airlines jet
in November of 1971, he hijacked the plane
and revealed that he was carrying a bomb in his suitcase.
In return for the safety of the passengers,
he demanded a ransom of $200,000 along with four parachutes.
The plane landed in Seattle, where Cooper released everyone
except most of the flight crew,
once the money and parachutes were given to him.
The plane then took off, and while caught in a heavy storm,
Cooper jumped out with the money and parachutes with him.
Authorities believe he would have landed
in a remote area near Mount St. Helens,
caught in the grips of a bitter winter,
but Cooper was never found.
Some people believe that he died,
and others believe he just got away with it.
And if he did get away with it,
what's the point if you're stuck
in a freezing cold climate?
Brr, I've got a lot of money.
I've got frostbite too, but at least a lot of money.
Number nine is the Human Bomb.
In 1996, a gunman turned a cab driver into a human bomb
and then disappeared, never to be caught.
His victim, Harvey McCloud,
picked up the mysterious man in a cab.
Soon, the passenger pulled out a gun
and chained a bomb to Harvey,
revealing that he could set it off at will with his phone.
Harvey was forced to carry another bomb into a bank
and threaten everyone with it in return for money.
But in an act of heroism, Harvey took the second bomb
with him as he left, so that no one else could be hurt.
But when he returned to the cab,
all that he found was a note telling him to drive
to a specific payphone and wait for a call.
So, scared crapless, he did this,
but he realized that that payphone
couldn't accept incoming calls.
So the police were informed,
and it turned out that the bombs were fake.
So while the gunman never actually got his money,
he did get away scot-free.
Number eight is Rocco Perri.
Rocco Perri was a powerful crime boss
who, after a string of crimes,
vanished and was never caught by police.
Operating out of Canada, where obviously
all the criminals are, he made a name for himself
selling illegal alcohol, after the drink was banned
due to the Ontario Temperance Act of 1916.
Known as the "king of bootleggers", he was constantly
under surveillance by the Canadian police
Oh this guy looks like a lot of trouble.
They better keep an eye out on him.
They also suspected him of a number of other crimes,
including extortion, organizing gambling rings,
as well as running illegal brothels.
Rocco Perri was also suspected
of being directly and indirectly involved in gang violence,
even wiping out a rival organized crime family.
After a number of attempts on his life,
Perri was last seen alive on April 23rd, 1944.
Listen, I'm not saying I know where this guy is.
All I am saying is you don't want to mess with the Canadians
'cause you don't, you might end up drowning
in a vat of maple syrup, capiche?
Number seven is Lord Lucan.
Lord Lucan was a member of the British aristocracy,
who allegedly committed murder
and then used his resources to evade police capture.
In 1972, Lucan had separated from his wife, Veronica,
and by 1974 they were locked in a bitter battle
for custody of their three children.
But on November 7th of that same year,
Veronica claimed that she was attacked by her husband,
and that he'd murdered their nanny.
She at all the cookies!
I told her not to!
It's not my fault!
Fleeing the scene of the crime,
Lucan wrote a letter that night
claiming that he had stopped someone else
from attacking his wife, but that she was using
the opportunity to accuse him of murder.
An inquest did find that Lucan was guilty of the crime,
but there has been much debate about it ever since.
But whoever committed the murder
doesn't change the fact that Lord Lucan, guilty or not,
disappeared into the night.
Just like Batman.
Lord Lucan -- he's Batman.
Number six is Victor Gerena.
Victor Gerena stole $7 million of cash,
and even though the authorities think they know where he is,
he's never been arrested.
The crime took place on September 12th, 1983.
Gerena was 23 years old at the time
and was working as an armored truck guard.
It was his responsibility to protect any money
or high-value items inside the truck.
By the way, quick pause.
Good job doing a background check on this guy, everybody.
All right!
No worries!
Instead, Gerena overpowered two of his colleagues
and made off with millions of dollars.
While he reportedly told one of his colleagues
that he was only doing it because he was tired
of working for other people, it turns out
he was actually a member of a Puerto Rican terrorist group.
He was never caught, though the FBI believe
that he's still hiding in Cuba.
Fortunately for Gerena, and unfortunately
for the authorities, they can't pursue him
due to having no jurisdiction there,
and the Cuban government refuses to extradite him.
Listen, I don't know if you know just how much $7 million is
in Cuba, but it's not exactly a rich country,
so let's just say this guy is never gonna get caught.
Hey, man, is that Victor Gerena?
(laughing) Nope.
Number five is the Gardner Museum robbers.
The Gardner Museum theft is one of the most ambitious heists
in history, and yet the perpetrators
have so far evaded capture.
It took place on March 18th, 1990,
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Two men impersonated police officers,
claiming that they were responding
to a report of a disturbance.
The museum security guards let the men inside
but quickly realized their mistake.
You're police?
Oh, yeah, please come in.
Ah, that guy had a face tattoo.
The robbers tied up to security guards
and then stole 13 works of art
worth an estimated $500 million.
As of today, none of the works have been found,
and it may be that the robbers have sold them
on the black market, or were hired by a rich collector
to steal them in the first place.
But what adds an even more bizarre twist to the story
is that several pieces of forensic evidence
have disappeared while in the FBI's care.
Pfft, this is an easy one to solve.
Have you ever seen the Thomas Crown Affair?
It was Thomas Crown.
That's fiction?
Okay.
Let's move on.
Number four is Szilveszter Matuska.
Szilveszter Matuska was a talented mechanical engineer
who used his talents to commit bizarre crimes
and then get away with them.
But unlike most murderers, Matuska's weapon of choice
wasn't a gun or even a knife; it was a train.
After two failed attempts to derail trains in Austria
in 1930 and early 1931, Matuska was finally successful.
He derailed a train near Berlin,
injuring more than 100 people, some seriously.
He then derailed another train,
this time heading for Vienna,
which resulted in the deaths of 22 people.
Now, while Matuska was arrested and convicted,
in the end he escaped, never serving his sentence.
While no one can be sure of his motives,
many believe that he was simply a psychopath.
(shouts) What do you want, money?
No, I just like trains.
Number three is Matteo Messina Denaro.
Matteo Denaro is perhaps the most infamous
organized crime boss of all time, and he's still out there.
Denaro first rose to prominence during the 1990s.
After the death of Bernardo Provenzo in 2016
and Salvatore Riina in 2017,
he's believed to be the leader of the Sicilian mafia.
Being on the run since 1993, after allegedly being involved
in several killings, Denaro has continued to add
to his infamy, until earning the name "The Boss of Bosses".
But being a fugitive all these years
hasn't stopped him ruling with an iron fist
and overseeing criminal activities worth billions.
As of 2018, Italian police continue to seize his assets
and hunt him down, and yet Denaro has evaded them
at every turn, continuing his successful reign for decades.
Wait a second, I'm seeing a pattern here.
All the powerful Italian mob bosses' last name
end with an 'o': Danaro, Provenzo, Santoro.
(laughing maniacally)
Number two is the Zodiac Killer.
Hide your kids, hide your wife.
In one of the most infamous crimes of the 20th century,
the Zodiac Killer is an as-of-yet unidentified serial killer
who operated during the '60s and '70s.
The Zodiac killed at least seven people,
aged between 16 and 29.
At the time, the local press in San Francisco
received bizarre letters
purportedly from the killer himself.
Oh my God, he's gonna kill a woman named Jane!
(shouts) This is his grocery list!
The letters included taunts to those trying to catch him
and four cryptograms containing coded messages.
The letters claimed these codes would reveal
the killer's identity to those smart enough to decode them.
But only one of these have ever been partially solved.
The message states that the killer was collecting slaves
for his time in the afterlife.
Now, while the Zodiac was never caught,
suspects were identified.
But unless new evidence is found,
it's unlikely that the killer will ever be found
or brought to justice.
Well if it was the '60s and '70s
he probably had like cool, long hair, man,
so the best thing he could do is just shave his head,
maybe grow a bear, big wide smile.
No one would suspect that.
And number one is Aribert Heim.
After the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945,
some of the most prominent members of the Nazi Party
went into hiding, but of all of these,
Aribert Heim is perhaps the most infamous.
Hein was guilty of crimes against humanity
during the Holocaust.
He carried out abhorrent medical experiments
on the Jewish prisoners at a concentration camp.
No one knows how many people he killed
during his horrific experiments,
but it was at least several hundred.
Although captured at the end of the war,
he was released because no one knew
the extent of his crimes.
After living in Egypt and working as a gynecologist,
he became a fugitive in 1962
when his crimes became known.
Now, Heim's son claims that his father died in 1992
of cancer, but no one can be certain.
To be honest with you, I don't know what's scarier,
the fact that he could still be out there
or the fact that a fugitive Nazi
was working on ladies' jiggly bits.
So those were 10 infamous criminals who were never caught.
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