Over 30 years ago, at 1:24 am on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 81 minutes later they walked out with $200 million worth of artwork (now valued at $500 million). They forced the night guards into the basement, and duct-taped their hands, eyes, and ankles. The guards were not discovered until the new shift came to relieve them around 8 am. When the police examined the gallery, they noticed that the missing paintings had been cut from the frames, instead of carefully removed. None of the pieces have ever been recovered.
13 pieces were stolen from the museum. The value of the pieces makes this the biggest art theft in the history of the world. Click on any of the images below to see a larger version and learn more. The museum is offering $10 million in reward money for information leading to the recovery of the stolen items. If you have verifiable information about the location of any of these items, please contact th
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An Explosive Netflix Documentary About the $500 Million Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist Names the Gangsters Who May Have Done It
The four-part series includes never-before-seen crime-scene photographs and other clues even the FBI never saw.
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“This was a solvable crime,” Colin Barnicle, director of the new Netflix documentary series
But more than three decades after the most expensive art theft in U.S. history, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s stolen paintings are still missing, with their empty frames hanging on the walls of the Venetian-style palazzo.
Gone since the theft are $500 million worth of masterpieces by the likes of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Edgar Degas, and Édouard Manet.
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Separating fact from fiction in Netflix s latest true crime thriller
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The perfect heist is the subject of many a great movie, but one of the biggest thefts in the art world took place for real more than 30 years ago. Unlike Hollywood’s versions, which tend to wrap up with a neat how-and-why explainer (thanks, Danny Ocean), this one remains a whodunnit, with the priceless haul still AWOL.
The gripping story behind the heist is the subject of a new Netflix documentary series,
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This Is A Robbery: The Worldâs Biggest Art Heist is four hoursâ worth of twists, turns, leads, dead-ends, mobsters, Manets and big, big money. This is everything you need to know.
What is it about?
This Is A Robbery delves into the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, during which two thieves dressed as Boston police officers stole art worth millions from the museum. We learn that the robbers bound and gagged two security guards, before proceeding to loot the museum over an 81-minute period. The four-part true crime series takes its name from something one of the thieves reportedly said before taking the guards down to the basement, where they were discovered (by actual police officers) the next morning. The crime remains unsolved.
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