**Stephanie Soo** (0:00)
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In Berlin, there is a very fancy department store, and I'm going to butcher the name, and I'm never going to be able to face a German person with nick-nitty, so I'm just going to call it Berlin's Barneys, Berlin's Saks. You walk in, and most things are going to be in the cases, the locked glass cabinets. The lighting is always pristine, so everything looks so sparkly in there. It's like the trademark of every expensive jewelry store or department store. The lighting is so good. You can make a plastic candy wrapper look like some naturally mined yellow diamond just sparkling in the light. That's this type of department store. And they don't just carry jewelry. They have very expensive watches, the ones where they say, oh, sorry, that's only for exhibition. And then you have to buy like 10 other things before they let you buy the one watch that you wanted in the first place. There's a lot of money sitting in those cases, so much so that the store employs motion detectors. They have an extensive security system for the entire place, which is the premise of every good heist movie, every good heist TV show. The plan is simple. Get in, grab the best stuff, get out, and don't get caught.
Plot detail that must be included is the doors are all censored, impenetrable. However, there will be a skylight. You can just unscrew the nails, remove the skylight, throw in a rope, slide down it, just like the three masked men in Berlin will slide down the rope to partake in a shop after midnight special, where they get the entire store to themselves. It sounds like a movie. This is very much real life. They take $6.5 million worth of fine jewelry and watches. Instead of leaving behind a credit card to finance their very rushed transaction, if you will, or their after pay details, they leave behind a singular glove.
And inside that glove is a singular bead of sweat.
DNA evidence.
Authorities run the DNA. They get a hit, it's too easy. Of course it is, right? It links back to someone with a criminal record for theft and fraud.
Times two. What do you mean times two? Two counts of fraud? Two counts of theft? What do you mean? No, the DNA links back to two people with criminal records for theft and fraud. So what, did they just change gloves in between and they both sweat into it? How's that possible? It's DNA. Two people don't have the same DNA unless you're an identical twin. Two 27-year-old brothers, H and A, are arrested based off of the fact that the DNA in the glove links back to them. So here's what we know. Three masked men, one glove with DNA belonging to one of the brothers, only one of the twins could be involved or both of the twins could be involved. Neither of them are willing to talk or cooperate, which means it really could be either or. And that's all the evidence they have. Nothing else.
**SPEAKER_2** (4:12)
This is a real heist?
**Stephanie Soo** (4:13)
Yeah, in Berlin.
**SPEAKER_2** (4:14)
When was this?
**Stephanie Soo** (4:16)
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