The Mona Lisa Heist: How One Man Stole the World’s Most Famous Painting
In 1911, an unassuming Italian handyman walked into the Louvre and walked out with Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa tucked under his smock. No alarms. No guards. No elaborate plan. Just pure audacity.
On this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson uncovers the shocking true story of Vincenzo Peruggia — the man who hid the masterpiece in his apartment for two years, sparked a global manhunt, and accidentally turned the Mona Lisa into the iconic legend it is today.
From the botched investigation that implicated Pablo Picasso to the patriotic thief who received a hero’s welcome…
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