Title: Stealing Sisi's Star
Description: "While on honeymoon in Vienna in June, 1998, Gerald Daniel Blanchard, an accomplished thief, happened upon the greatest challenge of his life when he spotted the last remaining "Sisi Star." Named after its former owner, Empress Elisabeth, the ten-pointed diamond and pearl star was originally one of 27 that Sisi wore in her extravagantly long hair"--
Subjects: Case studies, Jewelry theft, Criminals, canada, Austria, social conditions
Places: Austria
People: Elisabeth Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria (1837-1898)