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   Louvre robbery   
      
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   What we know about the evidence left at the scene of the Louvre jewel heist   
      
   "All criminals make mistakes," said a retired NYPD chief of detectives. ByBill   
   Hutchinson   
      
   As the hunt for the thieves who stole over $100 million worth of jewels from   
   the Louvre Museum in Paris stretched into its fifth day on Thursday, veteran   
   detectives who have probed similar cases said French investigators have a lot   
   of evidence to work with.   
      
   Chief among the clues police have recovered at the scene of Sunday's   
   sensational crime at one of the world's most famous museums are traces of DNA   
   found on items the thieves left behind in their hasty motorbike getaway.   
      
   "That's a tremendous piece of evidence to have recovered, to actually have   
   DNA," Geoffrey Kelly, a retired FBI agent who was on the bureau's art crime   
   team, told ABC News. "We've always typically thought of fingerprints as the   
   way to catch bad guys, but DNA is really 21st-century technology."   
      
   The DNA, which investigators are analyzing and hope will lead to the identity   
   of the brazen thieves, was found in one of the helmets and one of the gloves   
   the thieves used in the robbery, French police in charge of the heist   
   investigation told ABC News.   
      
   Kelly said French detectives are likely running the DNA traces through law   
   enforcement DNA databases to look for a match.   
      
   "If it were here in the States, we would certainly be running the DNA through   
   what we call the CODIS database, which is a database of all collected DNA   
   samples," Kelly said.   
      
   The CODIS database is maintained by the FBI, but the DNA available to   
   investigators is mostly of people convicted of crimes or who have been   
   reported missing.   
      
   "If that didn't work, then we would go to investigative genealogy, where we   
   would actually be using commercial DNA databases and running the DNA evidence   
   collected through these databases to try and find a match. If not direct, then   
   maybe second, third or fourth generation."   
      
   Robert Boyce, the retired chief of detectives for the New York Police   
   Department, said the genetic evidence obtained in the Louvre case can also be   
   run through the DNA database of Interpol, the world's largest international   
   police organization headquartered in Lyon, France.   
      
   Even if the perpetrators have no previous criminal history in which they were   
   required to submit DNA samples, Boyce said the evidence can still be used once   
   an arrest is made to place the suspects at the scene of the crime.   
      
   Boyce, an ABC News contributor, noted that Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the   
   Dec. 4, 2024, fatal shooting in midtown Manhattan of UnitedHealthcare CEO   
   Brian Thompson, had no previous criminal record that would have required him   
   to submit his DNA.   
      
   But once Mangione was caught, a candy bar wrapper and a water bottle that   
   police collected as evidence allegedly placed Mangione at the crime scene   
   because they contained traces of his DNA, according to prosecutors.   
      
   "Once you identify a suspect, it will put him or her right there at the   
   scene," Boyce said.   
      
   French police said the Louvre jewel thieves also left behind a stolen truck   
   with a mechanical cherry picker mounted to it that the perpetrators used to   
   reach the second-floor window leading to the Apollo Gallery they targeted.   
      
   Also collected as evidence at the crime scene was a blanket, two angle   
   grinders used to cut through the window of the gallery and the display cases   
   inside, a walkie-talkie, gasoline and a blowtorch, as well as the glove and   
   helmet that contained the DNA.   
      
   "It's all critical," Boyce said. "Anything you find at a crime scene... that's   
   going to help you in the long run with this case."   
      
   He said the stolen truck with the cherry picker mounted to it could turn out   
   to be a key piece of evidence once police determine the location it was taken   
   from.   
      
   "The tools they left at the scene, they knew they were going to leave at the   
   scene. So they didn't really care," Boyce said.   
      
   Boyce said investigators will likely look for security video in the vicinity   
   of where the truck was taken.   
      
   "You do your video searches before the perp gets to the scene," Boyce said.   
   "So, you want to find video showing that cherry picker, where that was, and   
   see if you can develop any evidence from that before they get to the scene,   
   because that's when their guard is down. They think they're not being watched."   
      
   Another key piece of video that investigators are closely analyzing is one   
   that law enforcement sources told ABC News was taken from inside the museum by   
   Louvre security and captures two of the thieves exiting the museum on the   
   mobile cherry picker and fleeing on motorbikes with the loot.   
      
   Boyce said the other pieces of evidence collected at the scene can also be   
   crucial, particularly if the thieves purchased the items at a store.   
      
   "I had cases where the perpetrators went to a Home Depot to buy their tools,"   
   Boyce said.   
      
   Boyce said the Louvre heist was "audacious and shows you the level of detail   
   they went to."   
      
   "They practiced this," Boyce said.   
      
   However, Boyce added, "All criminals make mistakes, all of them. And it's up   
   to us, the investigators, to find those mistakes."   
      
   https://abcnews.go.com/International/evidence-left-scene-louvre-   
   ewel-heist/story?id=126812677   
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   Bye, All!   
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