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/ rll the Greater Boston area in the
United States is home to a couple nice
universities you may have heard of a few
sports teams that you may have also
heard of and a museum that you're about
to hear about which was the scene of the
greatest heist in world history that
still remains unsolved
two men managed to break into the museum
overnight and stole over five hundred
million dollars worth of art in just 81
minutes and decades later their
identities still remain unknown as does
the location of the art they stole so
how were two guys able to pull off
something so ambitious and how can you
still earn a ten million dollar reward
today related to the case let's start
from the beginning around midnight on
March 18th 1990
up to the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston near the museum side
entrance two men wearing fake police
uniforms waited inside the car for over
an hour while only two security guards
were present in the museum one of them
was a guy named Richard who admitted
later he would regularly show up to work
drunk or stoned but claimed to be sober
the night of the robbery he was at the
front desk at 1:24 a.m. when the two men
dressed as officers bust the door and
claimed that they were responding to a
disturbance call in the courtyard and
requested entry museum protocol did not
allow uninvited guests in a night but
since there were st. Patrick's Day
parties going on around the area the
disturbance calls seemed plausible to
Richard and he didn't know if the rule
applied to police officers so he buzzed
them in anyway when the two policemen
got to his front desk they told Richard
he looked familiar and there was a
warrant out for his arrest they told him
to step away and show some
identification so he stepped out from
behind the desk where the only alarm
button to real police was located and
then they put handcuffs on him and
arrested him when the second security
guard arrived from Patrol they arrested
him too and when they asked why they
were being arrested that these told him
that they weren't under arrest but they
were getting robbed
so they duct-taped their hands heads and
feet and lock them down in the basement
the two thieves then went on to ransack
the museum's art taking paintings from
the walls and hacking them out of their
frames with knives on
when off to alert the guards that
somebody was too close to the arts but
they just found it and smashed it motion
detectors also track their movements the
entire time and were sending alerts but
it didn't matter because of the museum's
flawed security these alarms were only
meant to alert the on-duty security
guards and make them push the button on
the front desk to actually call the
police but since they were a little
incapacitated that became impossible
over 81 minutes of helping themselves to
whatever they wanted they made two trips
to their car with 13 pieces of art
including paintings by Rembrandt Vermeer
daga an ancient Chinese GU and an eagle
from a Napoleonic era flagged one of the
paintings the concert by Vermeer is
regarded as the most valuable stolen
object in the world with a value of over
200 million dollars once the thieves got
into their car and drove off into the
night with her five hundred million
dollars worth of stolen art they were
never heard from again the real police
didn't show up until 8:30 a.m. and one
of the greatest mysteries in US history
began being investigated
which 28 years later has found some
interesting clues Richard for example
seems like he knows more than he claimed
just about 30 minutes before the thieves
bust the door to be let in Richard open
the side door on the street they were
parked on and then quickly shut it he
claimed that the museum had taught him
how to do that to make sure that it was
locked but the timing of it certainly
seemed suspicious also interesting to
note the motion detectors didn't pick up
the thieves on the first floor where a
piece was stolen but they did pick up
Richards movements there before the
thieves arrived Richard also claimed
that despite the thieves not wearing
masks he couldn't recall any features of
what they looked like to police shortly
afterwards but perhaps the most
interesting new piece of evidence
surfaced just in 2015 a security video
that shows Richard letting in an
unidentified man to the museum the night
before the heist took place which could
have been a test run for the actual
heist later the next day Richard claims
that he doesn't remember this event
taking place despite the video evidence
contradicting that more confusingly
though is what the thieves actually
chose to steal they passed up much more
valuable paintings by Raphael and bought
a celli
among others they could have easily
taken which suggests the thieves
themselves
may have been rather amateurish after
conducting hundreds of interviews over
20 years the FBI in 2013 announced that
they knew the identity of the two
thieves but further announced in 2015
that they were both deceased even if
they're not the statute of limitations
for their theft expired long ago so they
couldn't be prosecuted today if they
came forward but they haven't anyway
the location of the artwork stolen
remains unknown despite the museum
currently offering a ten million dollar
reward for information that leads to
their safe returned when the artwork was
stolen the museum was in the middle of
updating their security but it came too
little too late
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