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In March 1990, two men pulled off an art heist worth $500 million at Boston’s Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum. The story of the theft and the investigation around it are the focus of a new Netflix true crime documentary titled
This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist.
The series, which is broken down in
four parts, will premiere on the streaming platform on
April 7.
Thirty years on, the crime remains unsolved. What is known, however, is how the works of art were stolen. In the early hours of March 18, 1990, the pair of thieves were able to enter the museum by dressing up as police officers and pretending to respond to a disturbance call inside. The men then tied up the guards and proceeded to steal 13 artworks from the museum over the next hour.