The Lufthansa Heist
(Reader Contribution to 10 Incredible “Perfect” Crimes)
In the early morning hours of December 11, 1978, a group of armed men wearing ski masks entered the Lufthansa cargo building at Kennedy Airport in New York. In a robbery as bold as it was meticulously planned, the thieves disarmed and handcuffed the guards, deactivated all alarms, including several silent ones; gained entry into a double vault, stole $6 million in cash and jewels and left the airport, all before the police were even notified. The entire incident took about an hour.
The FBI strongly suspected the robbery was the work of career criminal Jimmy “The Gent” Burke and a group of his associates, all of whom had ties to organized crime families in New York City. Law enforcement agencies kept the men under surveillance but were never able to amass evidence needed to secure a conviction. In the meantime, one by one, the participants in the robbery began to turn up dead or missing, likely precipitated by Jimmy Burke, who was trying to distance himself from the theft--the keep the money for himself.
No one was ever formally charged with the crime and none of the money was ever recovered.
The heist has been the subject of book, “Wiseguy” by Joesph Pileggi, and the film, “Goodfellas”, directed by Martin Scorsese.
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