the DuPont fortune was renting a house there. Among the sheets in the linen closet of the master bedroom Salerno came across a leather traveling case which contained jewels worth, at that time, approximately $12 million. The largest piece was a natural pink flawless pear-shaped diamond, worth about $1,800,000. The idea of stealing from people while they were home was not something that Peter Salerno came up with on his own accord. He was taught by Frank Bova, a master thief, who learned this skill when he led a Ranger team that stole documents from the Nazis during World War II. To this day, the veteran thief has never been caught. No one benefited from the concept more than the Gang's fence, Wally Gans. Wally worked in Manhattan's Diamond District on West 47th Street, an area Salerno described as having "more diamonds and cash ... than God." For each piece of jewelry the gang usually received around 10 cents on the dollar which was “the going rate for hot jewelry” at the time. Wally Gans and his wife retired after Latella and Salerno's two biggest jobs. Personal lives Salerno and Latella married twin sisters Gloria and Sandra Savino who were from a family with Mafia connections. Despite the fact that the gang only received a fraction of the total retail value of their thefts, there was always plenty of money around. The Savino sisters recall putting "20,000 dollars at a time" in envelopes. They spent the money on everything: cars, clothes, homes, and boats. The money didn't even begin to run out until the 1980s when the duo planned to retire from their lives of crime. It was in the 1990s that Salerno and Latella came out of retirement. Gloria Salerno had been diagnosed with advanced breast cancer and the Salernos did not have enough money to pay for her treatments. They burglarized roughly 40 houses within several months. By this point, Salerno was "obsessed." Gloria Salerno recovered, but her husband and brother-in-law were finally caught. The detectives Bill Adams and Jim Hirsch were two of the detectives assigned in later years to the Dinner Set Gang's case. After working on the case for 20 years, they were able to help track down and identify the pair once the thefts began again. "The Dinner Set Gang" was caught on January 21, 1992 in Westport, Connecticut. When Salerno entered the house's