It wasn’t as elaborate a plan as “Ocean’s Eleven” or “The Thomas Crown Affair,” but the plot to steal more than $1 million in crown jewels from a German castle was brazen nonetheless — and it eventually ended up in a Richmond courtroom.

Women’s Army Corps Capt. Kathleen Nash Durant and her husband, Army Col. Jack Durant, of Falls Church, each took part in the theft of the crown jewels of the royal House of Hesse in Germany, which earned them a conviction in military court. But the legitimacy of the courts-martial ended up in an ongoing series of disagreements between courts, with a Richmond court ultimately deciding Nash Durant’s fate.

“The freedom of Kathleen Nash Durant, former WAC captain accused in the theft of $1,500,000 worth of the Hesse crown jewels, hung in the balance here yest

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