The American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Getty Images. As publicity of the theft rapidly mounted, a desk clerk in their Manhattan building tipped off cops about the tenants who ...

One milestone not on that list: the biggest jewel heist in New York history, when the Star of India, a 563-carat sapphire the size of a golf ball, was snatched from its display case, along with ...

On April 6, 1965, two months after pleading guilty to the Natural History Museum heist, Allan Kuhn, Jack Murphy and Roger Clark were each sentenced to three-year terms at New York’s Rikers ...

It was a crime straight out of a Hollywood movie. Just before Halloween in 1964, three men pulled up outside New York City’s Museum of Natural History. One man stayed behind in the car while the ...

Climate activists from the New York City chapter of international organisation Extinction Rebellion staged protests at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History ...