Like the rest of the world, jewelry historian Marion Fasel was shocked at the brazen, daytime theft of priceless French crown jewels from the Louvre in Paris on the morning of October 19. But she was equally dismayed by what she saw as the immediate flood ...

It sounds like the plot of a heist movie. On October 19, priceless items of jewelry and royal regalia were stolen, in broad daylight and in a matter of minutes, from the Louvre's gilded Gallery of Apollo in Paris. The theft of these items from one of the ...

How high are the stakes around the missing jewels from the Louvre? High enough that several jewelry experts we contacted had to decline to comment on an ongoing international investigation. Others shared their perspective on the significance of the crime ...

Indiana couple Jacob and Holly Barker were eager to visit the Louvre on their recent trip to Paris. In an effort to avoid crowds, the Barkers had booked one of the first ticketed times of the day for Sunday, Oct. 19. Little did they know they'd be present ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards. The thieves exited as they entered, through a window, fleeing with nearly all of France’s crown jewels.

Multiple people have now been arrested over a jewellery heist at Paris’s famed Louvre Museum. However, the lavish jewels that once adorned France’s royals are still missing. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.