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Doris Payne
________, an elderly woman with a 1952 criminal record, never intended to make a living as a global diamond thief.
Pink Panthers
In 1993, The ________, a group of international jewel thieves, loot the first of many jewelry stores, taking more than £300 million in gold and diamonds in the process.
Charm
________ is used to make the employee forget how many objects were outside the case.
She carried off this trick three times
once from a guarded hotel room in Monte Carlo, once from a Texas hospital after pretending to be unwell, and once from an Enters shop while wearing a beautiful, affluent woman's attire
Doris Payne
an elderly woman with a 1952 criminal record, never intended to make a living as a global diamond thief.
October 10, 1930
An African American father as well as a Sioux mother gave birth to Doris Marie Payne on _______, at a coal miner's camp near Slab Fork, southern West Virginia.
assisted living home for the elderly
She was reared in a segregated society as the youngest of six children and dropped out of high school to work at an ________. Her only genuine job was going to be this.
jewelry shops
In 1952, Doris Payne, a young single mother of two, decided that she could sustain herself by robbing upscale ______.
innate charm and sleight of hand
She came up with a cunning plan, using her _________, to divert shop employees while she tried on a broad range of pricey rings.
20
Payne robbed establishments all across the globe using _____ names and nine different passports.
10.5-carat emerald-cut diamond
In 1974, Her most well-known theft was a _________ from Cartier in Monte Carlo, France, which was valued $500,000 (£396,000).
Monte Carlo
She carried off this trick three times: once from a guarded hotel room in _____, once from a Texas hospital after pretending to be unwell, and once from an Enters shop while wearing a beautiful, affluent woman's attire.
Neiman Marcus shop
The five years Payne spent behind bars in Colorado for robbing a ___________ in 1998 of a $57,000 (£45,000) diamond ring were the longest she had spent there.
83
At the age of ____, Payne was detained in 2013.
Palm Springs
She persuaded employees at a _____ business that she had received a $25,000 (£20,000) insurance payment and wanted to pamper herself.
Life and Crimes of Doris Payne
The _____, a 2014 documentary on Payne, depicted her as a renegade who overcame social obstacles to pursue her own version of the American Dream.
Sofia Ivanovna Blyuvshtein
In 1883–85, ________, a renowned Russian con artist commits several thefts from hotel rooms. She is finally caught and given a jail term that includes hard labor.
Yip Kai Foon
In 1991, ______ steals £1.1 million worth of jewelry during five violent robberies of Hong Kong goldsmiths. He is apprehended after a shootout in which he was injured in the back.
Pink Panthers
In 1993, The _____, a group of international jewel thieves, loot the first of many jewelry stores, taking more than £300 million in gold and diamonds in the process.
Miss Lady
Growing up in the 1930s in segregated coal mining country in West Virginia, Doris Payne played a game she called “_______.”
Walmart store
Her latest crime took place in July of 2017, in which she stole $86 worth of jewelry from the jewelry counter at a local ______ in Atlanta.
Town & Country
Payne browsed _________, looking through the jewelry ads for potential items to take.
Then, she made the trip from Cleveland, Ohio, to a certain shop to get the item she needed.
£1.1 million
Yip Kai Foon steals _____ worth of jewelry during five violent robberies of Hong Kong goldsmiths.
£300 million
Pink Panthers, a group of international jewel thieves, loot the first of many jewelry stores, taking more than ______ in gold and diamonds in the process.
