Atlanta Police had no clue who they had just nabbed when they picked up an elderly woman for reportedly stealing some designer jewelry. Doris Payne, 84, was arrested on October 23, 2015, for allegedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She’s a notorious jewel thief who stole millions of dollars’ worth of bling around the world. Nicknamed “Diamond Doris” — Doris ...

At first glance, silver-haired Doris Marie Payne, 83, looks like your typical sweet grandmother. Don’t let her endearing smile and innocent eyes, and especially her age, fool you. She’s an ...

The handsome young clerk didn’t have that special quality she looked for in a mark, the “combination of eager to please and stupid,” she writes in her new tell-all memoir, “Diamond Doris” ...

With her elegant dresses, designer handbags and immaculately styled white hair, Doris Payne blended in perfectly with the wealthy clientele of the world’s top jewellery stores. From London to Paris, ...

Early in her autobiographical account of a life of crime, Doris Payne seems to telegraph that she is an unreliable narrator. “To this day, any confessing I was going to do would be in order to make ...

The 86-year-old, who has a criminal record as a jewel thief spanning 60 years, was caught stealing a £1,600 diamond necklace from a department store A NOTORIOUS 86-year-old jewel thief has been ...

Payne has been pulling light jewelry heists for decades, from Monte Carlo, Britain, France, Italy, Monaco and even Japan to California, and has served prison sentences in six states. She claims she ...

Doris Marie Payne was the youngest of six, born in 1930 to a coal miner and a seamstress. Kirk Marcolina, producer of documentary The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne, explains: “She always wanted to ...