The Drive has an interview with former jewelry store robber and driver Larry Lawton (who seems to have a YouTube channel). Lawton explains how to choose an appropriate getaway car.
All were simply rented from a company like Hertz under somebody else's name with Lawton listed as the co-driver. They were picked up as normal and simply returned when the job was done. Lawton and his accomplices would pay for the car, case the store they planned to rob, and then use it in the actual robbery.
The Los Angeles Times has the obituary of Jack Murphy (aka Murph the surf) a thief who in 1964 stole the Star of India from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Murphy is best known for a daring heist in 1964 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, where he and other thieves used a bathroom window they had unlocked earlier to steal the famed Star of India sapphire — bigger than a golf ball — along with other precious gems.
Murphy was arrested a few days later and spent two years in prison for the heist. The New York Times has a long article from 2019 about the robbery which has a number of pictures.
Murphy was a champion surfer before the heist and owned a surf shop in Florida.
On Tuesday, two thieves stole one 17th century golden orb and two crowns from a cathedral near Stockholm where they had been on display in an alarm-locked glass box, before escaping by speedboat into the Mälaren lake that spans 120 kilometres and is filled with hundreds of small islands.
