Crime of the Century, a Top 25 List.

Time Magazine lists the Top 25 notorious crimes of the century, like the stealing of the Mona Lisa in 1911:

... on Aug. 20, 1911, the space she occupied on the walls of the Louvre was discovered bare. The theft shook France: the country's borders were closed, administrators at the museum were dismissed, enemies of traditional art were suspected of evil intentions. (The avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire was arrested as a suspect; he implicated Pablo Picasso. Both were eventually dropped as possible culprits). ...

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