Doris Payne

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.