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  • the thieves disabled the alarm, cut the phone lines and cut a hole in the roof.

  • All to get the big payoff was kind of the ocean's 11 Super Bowl rings were stolen.

  • Now he was ableto when they're undetected and wiped the place clean Super Bowl rings.

  • That's not something that was stolen every day.

  • How did you go about planning something like this?

  • I'm a professional, Siegel.

  • A massive basin.

  • No matter what I do, I'm a money making another movie.

  • Yeah.

  • Ah, lifelong criminal and a die hard Patriots fan.

  • Sean Murphy was crushed on Super Bowl Sunday in 2008 when he watched his team lose its chance at a perfect season.

  • I was shocked.

  • I didn't know what to do.

  • Ah, few weeks after the game, Ah, committee of Giants players got together in New Jersey to design their championship ring.

  • Tiffany's was there, and you kind of just get the pick out.

  • You know, the design and layout and what you want to ring that look like Michael Strahan declared that the ring you had to be a 10 table ER, and Michael explained that you've got to be able to see the ring from 10 tables away.

  • Up near Boston, Sean Murphy was designing something to his next big heist.

  • At that time, I was looking to do a jewelry manufacturer because the price of gold was going up.

  • I went into the library, got a list of all the jewelry manufacturers in the New England area.

  • When I got E.

  • 80 on my Google visit in an article came up and said that you were making the New York Giants Super Bowl links.

  • And I was like Holy commitment when I realized that one of the places gonna hit have the Super Bowl rings off like Giants they don't disturb it.

  • Needed to serve them brings.

  • Murphy planned to do the job in early June, but about a week before he was stunned to see the Giants players on the news celebrating together at a ring ceremony.

  • World champs Baby world champ.

  • I remember watching TV and seeing the ceremony when they got their ranks and we said, Oh, she missed it by a week way to do it anyway.

  • As sunset approached on Saturday, June 7th 2000 and eight, the three man crew set out for E.

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  • Dionne in a white box truck.

  • We usually we have black cover, all with black ninja masks on your chest.

  • Of the flight suits.

  • There's two pockets and one of them.

  • We put a two way radio with air plug that goes up through underneath the mask into our left here and in the right pocket.

  • We have a police scanner, which has another air plug that goes up through it goes into the right here.

  • There's a line directly from the alarm company to the business that monitors at all times, so we would get up on the roof and then we would cut the phone lines and I'll usually cut a hole on the move and truck who I had actually hit the vault room first, the one that has all the gold.

  • And I was in there cleaning them out of my pocket.

  • Joe was going around the business just looking around, and it's about 20 minutes later I met Joe in the hallway and he said the Super Bowl in here I was like whole.

  • Murphy and his men wiped out a Dion taking several dozen Super Bowl rings that were supposed to go to Giants team staff.

  • A swell is more than $2 million worth of inventory went loaded.

  • Everything into my warehouse, I guess 50% of everything that I thought would do.

  • So I had probably about 35 or 36 Super Bowl things just for myself.

  • As he went through his score, Murphy shipped some gold off to be sold, stashed a few piles of jewels in safe deposit boxes and even gave a little to his girlfriends like Ricky Lee Brown.

  • Rickie Lee pointed at the Super Bowl.

  • What about one of them?

  • I said, That s so I gave her one of the Super Bowl rings.

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  • Dion has been making jewelry here for 40 years, even Super Bowl rings.

  • Police say the place was hit over the weekend, and it looks like it was a professional job.

  • A soon as I heard about a die on the only person that came to mind that it was capable of doing such a break with Sean Murphy, Sean Review was known tow law enforcement as responsible for doing high end commercial breaks where large sums of money were stolen.

  • The investigators had a suspect in Murphy, but what they didn't have right away with someone close to Murphy, who would talk.

  • That changed when they interviewed another of his girlfriend's, Jordan Hartman.

  • She didn't know much, but she knew enough.

  • Remember Ricky Lee got a Super Bowl ring from Murphy.

  • Jordan got on Lee a necklace.

  • There was a break up.

  • Jordan was not happy with him, and she was happy to sit down with us and tell us everything that she knew.

  • What she told us did lead directly to us getting the search warrant.

  • She looked at me and she said, Is she?

  • I'm going to know that I've testified against him.

  • I said, Well, you know, Yeah, And her response was good.

  • I want him to know that it's me who did him and I said, Well, OK, if that's the case and we're good, you know?

  • Wow, They came in my house and they raided me.

  • And then they caught me with a couple of fake IEDs and, you know, a little jewelry here.

  • And they had nothing major.

  • What, Even with Murphy and custody, the police still didn't have the Super Bowl rings.

  • It wasn't until they traced the key they found in Murphy's house to a safe deposit box in a nearby bank.

  • That the investigators, seven months after the break in, finally had their moment.

  • The initial shake of the box.

  • You could hear something metallic scraping in the box.

  • So I think we all knew what we had at that point.

  • Yeah, the only thing missing was the background music.

  • The light came down.

  • It was like they were glowing.

  • It was just fantastic to see those rings.

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the thieves disabled the alarm, cut the phone lines and cut a hole in the roof.

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