The question of why an aging woman, facing the consequences of jail, would continue planning and stealing jewelry from shops, is simple. She didn't care.
Why would an aging jewel thief, arrested and jailed over the years, continue stealing? Because she wanted to.Doris Payne mug shotsFamous jewel thief Doris Payne, born in coal-miner country the youngest of six siblings in southern West Virginia in the heart of Appalachia, made it her lifetime pursuit to steal jewelry from high-end shops.dates back officially to 1952. But this October marked the anniversary of her first admitted theft a decade earlier at age 12, which was 1942.
Thus began what became a rash of fine jewelry thefts that would take Payne around the world. Along with theft skills, she perfected a soft, sweet persona as well as an air ofTraveling in 1952 from her home, which at the time was in Cleveland, Ohio, to Monte Carlo, Monaco, she pulled off her biggest heist. For two days, she walked the French Riviera, window shopping at the finest jewelry stores in Europe.
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