From the narrow streets of Nice to the gleaming corridors of Wall Street, Daring Capers tracks some of the world’s most fascinating criminals and their audacious crimes. Here’s a rogue’s gallery of bank robbers, art thieves, and debonair con artists who tried to steal their way to wealth through brilliant ploys and slick transactions.

These are some of the most outlandish and unlawful get-rich-quick schemes ever exposed. Some were even successful. At least so far.

Through dramatizations, news footage and interviews with witnesses and law enforcement officials, Daring Capers takes you down the moral low road into the enticingly dangerous, devilish world of the criminal.

Episode 18 – Queen of Jewels

A cunning jewel thief leads police on a chase that spans the globe and lasts a decade. Authorities all over the world seem powerless as they pursue a brilliant woman they come to know as “the Queen of Jewels”.