newly released video shows a guard resembling abbott just 24 hours before. at the start of the tape the unidentified man is seen backing up his car to the museum side entrance. after the first guard leaves to do his security rounds, the man outside approaches the museum. the guard at the desk faces the buzzer, but the man doesn t enter. instead, he returns to his car and turns on the parking lights. after, he heads back to the museum and is once again buzzed inside. this time he does enter through the same door the thieves would enter through the very next night. the man appears to go through some paperwork at the guard desk and then disappears for about three minutes inside the museum out of view of this particular security camera. it s unclear what he was doing or why he was there in the middle of the night. investigators want to know if
we spoke to him in february of 2013. his only television interview. he admitted he let the thieves in to the museum on the night of the heist. they buzzed the buzzer and i leaned over to the intercom and said, yeah. and they said boston police. we have a report of a disturbance on the premises. so i buzzed them in to the room. rick abbott has always maintained he had nothing to do with the theft but this newly released video shows a guard resembling abbott 24 hours before it. at the start of the tape, the unidentified man is seen backing up his car to the museum side entrance. after the first guard 4r50e6s to do his security rounds the man outside approaches the museum. the guard at the desk presses the door s buzzer but the man doesn t enter. instead he returns to his car and turns on the parking lights. after he heads back to the museum and is once again buzzed
to do his security rounds, the man outside approaches the museum. the guard at the desk presses the door s buzzer. but the man doesn t enter. instead, he returns to his car and turns on the parking lights. after he heads back to the museum and is, once again, buzzed inside. this time, he does enter through the same door the thieves would enter through the very next night. the man appears to go through some paperwork at the guard deskendes desk. then disappears for about three minutes inside the museum, out of view of this particular security camera. it s unclear what he was doing or why he was there in the middle of the night. investigators want to know if this video was some sort of dry run for the real thing. they say the car seen in the video everyone matches the general description of the video seen parked outside the museum the night of the theft. the f.b.i. released the tape hoping the public can identify the mystery man.