Day: March 29, 2026
The FBI is one of the most powerful law enforcement agencies on earth. They’ve got satellites, wiretaps, forensic labs, and thousands of agents trained to track down the worst of the worst. And yet, some criminals managed to run circles around them for years, sometimes decades. These aren’t your average crooks. These are the masterminds, the ghosts, and the brazen geniuses who exploited every blind spot in the Bureau’s playbook. These are 25 Criminals Who Outsmarted the FBI.
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0:00 – Intro
0:36 – Frank Abagnale Jr. — The Con Artist Who Conned History
2:01 – Whitey Bulger — The Mob Boss on the FBI’s Payroll
3:02 – D.B. Cooper — The Only Unsolved Hijacking in American History
4:11 – Robert Hanssen — The FBI Agent Who Was a Russian Spy
5:13 – Ted Kaczynski — The Unabomber’s 17-Year Campaign
6:21 – Victor Lustig — The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice
7:26 – John Dillinger — Public Enemy Number One
8:25 – Elizabeth Holmes — The Silicon Valley Fraud That Fooled Everyone
9:32 – Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán — The Tunnel King
10:42 – Kevin Mitnick — The World’s Most Famous Hacker
11:44 – The Zodiac Killer — San Francisco’s Unsolved Terror
12:46 – Aldrich Ames — The CIA Mole the FBI Missed for Nine Years
13:56 – Bernie Madoff — The $65 Billion Ponzi Scheme
15:07 – James “Jimmy” Burke — The Lufthansa Heist Mastermind
16:11 – Griselda Blanco — The Godmother of Cocaine
17:18 – The Gardner Museum Thieves — The Biggest Art Heist in History
18:23 – Sammy “The Bull” Gravano — The Underboss Who Flipped the Script
19:20 – Robert Vesco — The Fugitive Financier
20:21 – Enron — Corporate Fraud on a Civilizational Scale
21:26 – Semion Mogilevich — The “Brainy Don” the FBI Can’t Catch
22:18 – The Silk Road — Ross Ulbricht’s Dark Web Empire
23:25 – John List — The Family Killer Who Vanished for 18 Years
24.23 – The Brink’s-Mat Robbery — Gold That’s Still Missing
25.36 – Pablo Escobar — The King of Cocaine
26.25 – The 1971 FBI Break-In — Citizens Who Exposed the FBI Itself
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— Reuters (@Reuters) Mar 29, 2026
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has shared a post on X following the recent Israeli military attacks in southern Lebanon, as a result of which has killed a health worker. AzerNEWS reports via The Guardian that the strike also destroyed a medical warehouse in the same city, according to the WHO official.
The post WHO Chief says Israeli attack kills another health worker first appeared on The South Caucasus News – SouthCaucasusNews.com.
Likely thanks to Russian targeting info, if not weaponry. @SecRubio, do you still say that Russian aid to Iran is “insignificant” after the destruction of this $700m plane and how many US casualties? https://t.co/vvNPB3l84h
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) March 29, 2026
UK’s Reeves to warn G7 against unilateral trade moves during Iran war https://t.co/8vbNmVfOb5 https://t.co/8vbNmVfOb5
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 29, 2026
While speaking with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) spoke about a vote in the House to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
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Pakistan’s foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, has said that both Iran and the United States have expressed confidence in his country to facilitate talks on reducing tensions in the Middle East conflict. Also in the programme: the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is prevented from celebrating a private mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; and a UN summit moves to protect 40 migratory species. (A handout photo made available by the Pakistani Foreign Offices shows Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Pakistan’s deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar during a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan, 29 March 2026. CREDIT: PAKISTAN FOREIGN OFFICE/HANDOUT/EPA/Shutterstock)