8. The Stardust Casino Heist
It’s widely acknowledged that robbing a Vegas casino is among the toughest of heists to pull off. But several people have tried, and some have succeeded. The most successful was Bill Brennan, a man no-one knows anything about outside his impressive feat. He worked in the Stardust casino and midway through a shift in September 1992, he went to lunch. That’s not remarkable. What is remarkable is that he never came back. And has never been seen since. Oh, and there’s also the small matter of the $500,000 in chips and cash that he had stashed in his rucksack. It’s the biggest casino theft ever, and almost glorious in its simplicity. Some say he was in cahoots with a security guard, who later killed him, explaining both his disappearance and the ease with which he walked out with the money. Again, it may never be explained.
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