he s going back and forth about a half a dozen times, again, passing things that any art expert would say my god, these are two raphaels, small and portable. why wouldn t you take those? it s a great mystery to the theft. another great mystery is this painting by edward manet. the oil painting was taken from the blue room on the first floor. it hung right below manet s portrait of his mother. it was about 8 by 10 and it was in a gold, guilded frame and it was here. even though motion detectors picked up the thooef s trail by the instance on the first floor and all throughout the second floor, there are no records of anyone entering the blue room. rick abbot says in the time he worked at the museum, the motion detectors never failed. but he also says it wasn t impossible to avoid the detectors. in fact, he knew exactly how to do that.
are two raphaels, small and portable. why wouldn t you take those? it s a great mystery to the theft. another great mystery is this painting by edward manet. the oil painting was taken from the blue room on the first floor. it hung right below manet s portrait of his mother. it was about 8 by 10 and it was in a gold, guilded frame and it was here. even though motion detectors picked up the thooef s trail by the instance on the first floor and all throughout the second floor, there are no records of anyone entering the blue room. rick abbot says in the time he worked at the museum, the motion detectors never failed. but he also says it wasn t impossible to avoid the detectors. in fact, he knew exactly how to do that. it was a game he used to play at night to help pass the time on his rounds. you would walk all kinds of crazy ways.
you would walk all kinds of crazy ways. some places, you d have to go around the perimeter of the room or you d have to go right through the center, you d have to duck down or you d have to kind of squat and waddle and do all of these different stuff. reporter: it s something straight out of the movies, like this scene from ocean s 12. the motion detectors at the gardener museum were not nearly as complicated as that. still, the thieves still seemed to know how to evade them. but another question emerges, why would they bother doing so only in the blue room where just one painting was stolen. unless they weren t the ones who actually took the manet out of the blue room that night. the thieves made off with the printed records of the motion detectors, though they left the computer which saved all of the information on the hard drive, in tact. meanwhile, all of this time, rik
passing things that any art expert would say my god, these are two raphaels, small and portable. why wouldn t you take those? it s a great mystery to the theft. another great mystery is this painting by edward manet. the oil painting was taken from the blue room on the first floor. it hung right below manet s portrait of his mother. it was about 8 by 10 and it was in a gold, guilded frame and it was here. even though motion detectors picked up the thooef s trail by the instance on the first floor and all throughout the second floor, there are no records of anyone entering the blue room. rick abbot says in the time he worked at the museum, the motion detectors never failed. but he also says it wasn t impossible to avoid the detec r detectors. in fact, he knew exactly how to do that. it was a game he used to play at night to help pass the time on his rounds.
biggest art heist in history still unsolved. and this is all that s left. it is one of the art world s greatest mysteries. who stole these priceless works of art. and how have they managed to elude investigators all over the world for more than two decades. 13 works of art stolen, paintings by rembrandt, manet, flynk, sketches by degah. a chinese bronze beaker and a finial that set on top of a napoleonic flag. all taken in the dark of night. all together, worth $500 million. $500 million. and not one has ever been found. i m randy kaye outside the isabella stewart gardener museum. this is where it all began march 18th, 1990. it was st. patrick s weekend.