Like a criminal Rain Man, Gerald Blanchard possessed a savantlike ability to exploit security flaws.

This guy isn't a thief, Casey. He's an artiste:

In fact, by early in his high school years, Blanchard had already abandoned his after-school job stocking groceries to pursue more lucrative opportunities, like fencing tens of thousands of dollars in goods stolen by department store employees he had managed to befriend. “I could just tell who would work with me,” he says. “It’s a gift, I guess.”