Vincenzo Peruggia: Quality rather than quantity
So far, almost all the thieves featured in this article have had several charges of theft, murder, and kidnapping against them. But Perugia is different because he committed only one theft in his entire career. One theft was big enough to make him an international sensation.
What Perugia stole wasn’t some jewelry or robbing a bank. He stole Da Vinci’s most celebrated work, ‘The Mona Lisa.’ Yes, the painting decorated the walls of his hideout for two years before the person to whom he tried selling it turned him in.