It's January 13, 2006, a beautiful summer day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, when a call went out to local police at 12:38 PM that Banco Rio was being robbed.
Located in a serene, rich neighborhood in Argentina's capital, the prestigious bank contained a fortune in its vaults.
Police officers arrived at the scene to discover that four thieves and twenty three hostages were inside.
They secured the perimeter, guarding the only two possible exits from the bank.
After communicating and negotiating with the robbers throughout most of the afternoon, the thieves suddenly went silent.
At 7 PM, police officers broke into Banco Rio and found a confounding scene: the hostages were alive and well, almost one hundred and fifty safety deposit boxes were forced open and emptied of their contents, and the robbers... were gone.
No sign of the thieves could be found, no windows were broken, and the exits had been watched by police the whole time.
How did these thieves get away with what has become known as "the robbery of the century"?
How did they disappear under the careful watch of more than one hundred police officers?
We dug deep into this infamous Argentinean bank heist to find out.
