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Hypnotic Thief

Related Article: How Hypnosis Works

Italian police are blaming a recent grocery store robbery on a hypnotic thief. Police in the Italian town of Jesi say a bearded man entranced a female cashier and used hypnosis to persuade her to give him all the money in the register.

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