Masterminds (Canadian TV series)

Masterminds is a true crime documentary television series produced in Canada with truTV (formerly Court TV). Each 30 minute episode features one true property crime story. The profiled property crimes generally involve large sums of cash or merchandise and, more important, extremely unusual and/or elaborate methods of criminal operation which were never before (and sometimes never since) seen by law enforcement agencies. With a few notable exceptions, most criminals profiled in this series were caught within a couple of years of committing their crime(s).

Episodes

Episode	Show Title	Subject (crime) [country]
1	The Anthon Forgeries	Mark Hofmann (antique document forgery)
2	The Dunbar Heist	Dunbar Armored robbery
3	The Knightsbridge Heist	Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery [ UK ]
4	A Man Called Hollywood	Scott Scurlock (bank robber)
5	Double Crossed	Charles Daughtery (imposter, fraudster)
6	The Laguna Niguel Heist	Amil Dinsio (United California Bank robbery)
7	A Smuggler Supreme	Brian O'Dea (Drug Smuggling)
8	The Hotel Pierre Heist	Bobby Comfort (Pierre Hotel robbery)
9	The Perfect Score	William Smarto (Bank safety deposit box burglary)
10	A Day at the Races	Chris Harn 2002 Breeders' Cup betting scandal
11	The Stopwatch Heist	Paddy Mitchell (Bank Robbery)
12	The King of Car Thieves	Bill Dhaliwal (Auto theft & cloning) [ Canada ]
13	The Riviera Job	Albert Spaggiari (Bank Vault Robbery) [ France ]
14	The Dinner Set Gang	Peter Salerno and Dominick Latella of the Dinner Set Gang
15	Safe Landing (aka A Gem Of A Heist)	Tony Granims, Michael Ornelas, Mark Collins (commercial burglaries)
16	The Forger's Art	John Drewe (art fraud)
17	Fool's Gold	Michael de Guzman and Bre-X (Geological Fraud, Investor Fraud)
18	The Bandit Queen	Judy Amar (House Burglary)
19	The James Bond Gang	Terence Lawton, Bruce Anderson, David Kirkland & Walter Smith (burglaries)
20	The Dublin Job	Martin Cahill [ Ireland ]
21	Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief	Bill Mason (jewel theft)
22	The Friday Night Robber	Carl Gugasian
23	The Kansas City Diamond Heist	Clarence Burnett (Tivol jewelry heist)
24	The Silver Bandit	Blane David Nordahl (cat/stealth home burglaries)
25	The Cairo Caper (also known as Stealing History)	Jonathan Tokeley-Parry (Egyptian artifact smuggling)
26	Slot Machine Genius	Tommy Glenn Carmichael (hacking slot machines)
27	The Jewelry Show Job	William Hanhardt (safety deposit box robbery)
28	Air America	Rik Luytjes (Drug Smuggling)
29	The Memorial Day Heist	Jerry Clemente (police officer, ringleader of bank robbery)
30	The Disappearing Man	Steven Hadley (John Deere Bank theft)
31	The Superthief	Jack McClean (burglaries)
32	The Stander Gang	Andre Stander [ South Africa ]
33	Crazy Eddie	Eddie Antar (Retail Fraud) aka Crazy Eddie
34	The Brinks Matt (sic) Robbery	Brink's-Mat robbery [ UK ]
35	The Jacksonville Heist	Philip N. Johnson (Loomis Fargo Depot robbery)
36	Leader of the Pack	Aaron Rogers (commercial burglaries)
37	The ConRail Boyz	Edward Mongon (Train Robbing)
38	Hot Wheels	Minjin "Kenny" Yang (Grand Theft Auto and Export to China)
39	The Phantom Bandit	Gilbert Galvan (bank robbery) [ Canada ]
40	Making Millions	Steven Jory (Counterfeit banknotes) [ UK ]
41	The Air Cargo Millions	Hoa Lam Ong (cargo depot thefts) [ Canada ]
42	Halloween Heist	Craig Pritchert, Nova Guthrie (Bank Robbery)
43	The Social Register Gang	Raymond Flynn (home burglaries)
44	Stealing Las Vegas	Dennis Nikrasch (Gaming Fraud)
45	Cleaning House (aka Maid In The Shade)	Carrie Lee Jenkins
46	Money Bags	Maurizio Percan (Car Part Theft/Airbag resale)
47	The Berlin Heist	Kallet Alvarazi (Bank Heist) [Germany]
48	The Highway Robber (aka The Highway Bandit)	David Brankle (bank robberies)
49	The Great Escape	Jeffrey Manchester (commercial robberies)
50	Off The Rack (aka Fashion Crime)	Clothing theft on New York's Fashion Avenue
51	The Art of Double Dealing (aka Copycat Millions)	Ely Sakhai (art fraud)
52	The Motorcycle Bandit	Roni Leibovitz (bank robbery) [ Israel ]
53	The Invisible Man	Stephen Blumberg (theft of antique books)
54	The Museum Heist	James Quinn (commercial burglaries)
55	It Takes a Thief	Paul Mathieson (commercial burglaries)
56	Foul Ball	Wayne Bray (fake sports collectibles)
57	The Transylvania Job	Transylvania University (rare book collection theft)
58	Mission Impossible Burglar	Steven Krueger (burglaries)
59	Money Maker	Wesley Weber (Counterfeit banknotes) [ Canada ]
60	Bad Medicine	Gerald Barnbaum/Barnes (fake doctor)
61	The Millennium Diamond	Millennium Dome raid [ UK )

Broadcast

As of February 2011^[update], the program is broadcast on History Television and Global TV in Canada, and on truTV in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Masterminds schedule at History Television^{[dead link]}
• Masterminds on OVGuide

This page was last edited on 11 September 2023, at 16:22