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Monday, March 18, 2013

FBI: We Know Who Robbed the Gardner Museum

Federal and museum officials updated the public with new developments in the half-billion-dollar robbery, one of the largest art heists in history.

BOSTON, MA -- FBI officials announced Monday they know who committed one of the biggest art heists in history, but they still need the public's help to locate the 13 missing pieces of art.  “The FBI believes with a high degree of confidence in the years after the theft the art was transported to Connecticut and the Philadelphia region and some of the art was taken to Philadelphia where it was offered for sale by those responsible for the theft,”  said Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston FBI office. “With that same confidence we have identified the thieves who are members of a criminal organization with a base in the mid-Atlantic states and New England.”  Officials believe the art was smuggled into Connecticut and …

David Joseph Manger

5:42 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013

i feel fine looking at all this art i found in my attic!Wow !!what is this..uh oh!!I gotta go call a reporter.   more ›

FBI, Gardner Museum Announcement Coming Monday

The FBI has called a press conference at 2 p.m. on Monday to discuss the 23-year-old case.

  After years on the hunt, officials may have news about the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum heist. The Boston office of the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office and Gardner Museum will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. Monday to discuss the case and release a new website about the theft and investigation. The museum was robbed March 18, 1990, when thieves dressed as police officers were let into the closed museum. The robbers made off with priceless works by Dutch Masters Rembrandt, Vermeer and Govaert Flinck, along with a Chinese vase, five works by Edgar Degas and a Manet. In recent months, however, the security guard, once thought a hapless victim, has come under closer scrutiny, according to The Boston Globe. Richard Abath was found bound …

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