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The 2025 Louvre Heist

**Discussion begins at 3:30** Last month, the Louvre museum’s Galerie d'Apollon was the target of a brazen heist, with four men fleeing with eight pieces of French Crown Jewels valued at over $100 million USD or €88 million.  Disguised as construction workers and using a truck-mounted lift, two of the suspects accessed a first-floor window, cut into display cases, and fled via motorbikes with their loot.  The heist immediately generated a search for the jewels and suspects, as well as a plethora of other questions.  How did the thieves know exactly which window was weak, which display cases to target, and how to orchestrate a clean, rapid escape?  Was this an opportunistic crime, or a deliberately orchestrated inside job?  Questions also circulated surrounding the lack of surveillance and intrusion protocols despite previous security audits and known vulnerabilities.  With key items still missing and suspects only partially cooperating, theories abound -  Were the four thieves part of a larger network?  And what was the motive?  Could this have been a commissioned theft for a private collector, or were the pieces dismantled, recut, and resold with assistance of an underground network?  Today we’ll discuss what we know about the Louvre Heist, focusing on the possibilities of a larger conspiracy.  Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2265385/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3schemequeens] Theme song by INDA

Abby Hernandez: Victim or Conspirator?

**Discussion beings 9:07** On October 9, 2013, 14 year old Abigail Hernandez disappeared while walking home from school in North Conway, NH – a small town with a population of about 2000.  The school librarian reported seeing her walking in the direction of her home at 2:30 PM, and she was not seen again for nine months.  While she was missing, her mom never gave up the search for her – convinced that she was alive and being held against her will.  Her father on the other hand, claimed that she had likely just runaway.  The only sign of life was a letter mailed to her mother, which was received nearly a month after the disappearance – letting her know that she was alive and apologizing for leaving.  This letter, as well as the lack of crime in NH, led to the accepted belief amongst the locals that Abby had likely conspired to willingly disappear.  The public was outspoken with their disdain for the young girl, and what they perceived to be a drain on finances and resources spent looking for her.  It was known that she likely couldn’t have survived on her own - did she have an older boyfriend that she had run away with?  Theories had circulated around the school that she had fled due to a teen pregnancy.  Conspiracy theories only got worse 9 months later when she walked through the front door of the home she shared with her mom and sister.  She was wearing the same clothing she had been wearing when she disappeared.  She refused to tell anyone where she had been or what had happened to her.  So what really happened in those missing 9 months?  Was Abby the victim of a terrible crime?  Or the perpetrator of a horrendous conspiracy? Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2265385/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3schemequeens] Theme song by INDA

Skull and Bones: The Conspiracy Theories Surrounding the Secret Society

**Discussion begins at 7:10** The Life and Death Brigade on Gilmore Girls, Chuck Bass being kidnapped by a secret society during a college visit to Yale, Joshua Jackson and Paul Walker joining a dangerous secret society in the 2000 movie The Skulls... These are all pop culture references to one of the most famous secret societies on one of the most elite college campuses in the US.  This society, which selects 15 members annually from one of the most exclusive campuses in the world, was allegedly inspired by the Freemasons.  It is rumored that after graduation, members known as Bonesmen, are placed in high ranking positions in government, banking, law, education, and intelligence agencies to shape policy after graduation.  The 2,600 Patriarchs, or members who have since graduated, include 3 former presidents - President William Taft, George HW Bush, and George W Bush; leaders in business - like the founder of FedEx, founder of Time, Life, and Fortune Magazines, the CEO of Blackstone, and dynasties like the Rockefeller and Ford families; as well was leaders in finance, politicians on the state and federal level, high ranking government advisors, supreme court justices, University professors/presidents, journalists, athletes, and Hollywood stars. The 2004 presidential election actually pitted 2 Patriarchs – George W Bush and John Kerry, against each other, with both refusing to comment when asked about their membership.  What are the odds that the last 2 men standing in a battle for leadership of the US are both members of this secret society?  Is this secret society really a breeding ground for a powerful network of people that are secretly running the US?  Is it a branch of a larger network that with European ties manipulating us from the inside? Today we are going to learn about the secret society, and decide if it's just a club for high achieving college kids, or if there is something more sinister at play. Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2265385/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3schemequeens] Theme song by INDA

Is Garth Brooks a Serial Killer?

**Discussion begins at 2:30** In today's episode, we are diving into the viral conspiracy culture - specifically the theory that Garth Brooks is a serial killer.  Are his friends in low places.... really in low places?  When Garth was in college in Oklahoma, a young girl was murdered.  Then, he moved to Nashville in 1987 and worked at the Boot Barn, and again - during the period he was there, multiple women went missing.  If you track his tour schedule, there seems to be a cluster of missing or murdered unsolved cases at each of his stops.  So buckle up, because this one’s equal parts creepy, funny, and unsettling.  Whether you think it’s just a running joke—or something stranger—this episode will have you asking: "Where are the bodies, G?" Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2265385/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3schemequeens] Theme song by INDA

Jack the Ripper: The Conspiracy Theories

**Discussion beings at 5:10** In the fall of 1888, London was a booming metropolis under economic strain due to the massive influx up immigrants and refugees.  Whitechapel, an area in the East End, was an overcrowded neighborhood with poor employment and dire economic conditions.  As a result, many women were forced into casual prostitution to survive - and it was many of these women who fell victim to an unknown serial killer lurking in the dark, shadowed alleyways.  The killer was named "Jack the Ripper", either a self proclaimed nickname or one coined by the press, but beyond that alias the killer's identity remains a secret even 130 years later.  For more than a century, whispers have persisted that the Ripper murders were not the work of a lone madman, but part of a deeper conspiracy.  Theories have pointed to royal cover-ups, Masonic plots, and a police force accused of burying the truth.  This week, as we approach the end of True Crimeber - we are discussing one last British mystery - the story of Jack the Ripper and the conspiracy theories related to his…or her… potential identity.   Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2265385/open_sms] Support the show [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/3schemequeens] Theme song by INDA