The serial bank robber and escape artist Forrest Tucker (best known for a yearlong spree of 60-plus robberies across Oklahoma, Texas, and California after escaping from San Quentin State Prison in 1970, one of his 18 successful jailbreaks) committed his final string of burglaries at age 79 near Pompano Beach, Florida, sticking up the Republic Security Bank at three different locations in 1998 and pocketing $14,699. His final caper ended in a police chase at a geriatric 45 mph, capping off a criminal career worth millions in stolen money and goods. “He was addicted to the adrenaline of the game and couldn’t stop,” said one career FBI man of Tucker in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.

A gang of experienced elderly thieves orchestrated the largest burglary in English legal history in 2015, taking advantage of a bank holiday to penetrate as many as 70 vaults in an underground safe deposit facility in London. Dressed as workmen, they entered through an elevator shaft, then repeatedly drilled through 20 inches of reinforced concrete to access the vaults, making off with $22.3 million in cash, gold, gems, and jewelry —  most of which has yet to be recovered. It was one for the books: “The biggest robbery in the fucking world, Dan, we was on,” the police recorded Terrence Perkins, 67, saying to Daniel Jones, 60, the week after the heist.

After gleaning her whereabouts from social media, a crew of French cons plotted to rob the celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian during Paris Fashion Week in 2016. Disguised as police officers, five men entered Kardashian’s apartment at the Hôtel de Pourtalès, cuffed her at gunpoint, locked her in a bathroom, and made off with more than $10 million worth of jewelry. “Since she was throwing money away, I was there to collect it, and that was that,” said Yunice Abbas, 63, author of J’ai séquestré Kim Kardashian, in an interview with Vice. “[Do I feel] guilty? No, I don’t care. I don’t care.”