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can keep a secret if two are dead. i don t know what s going to happen in this situation, but i ll tell you, with that many people knowing, something can always go wrong. that s what the police are waiting for. that s a lot of money. larry lawton thank you you know go ahead. brooke you say the money. now they have to get rid of the money. if it s diamonds which they re assuming it is they have to get rid of that. they have to have a fence or there s a whole other aspect to this crime that they had to have planned out. you wouldn t do this robbery unless you had all of that planned out. and there s more people that are involved and more people that can get caught or get you caught. so i think they re going to come up with something. you hear about museum heists and people stealing precious paintings. you can t just roll up with a monet and expect to get money for it because somebody has to know there s something fishy there if i roll up with a really huge piece of diamond,
reporter: according to the fbi, nearly 9 of every 10 museum heists have an inside component. rick abath who let the thieves in was interrogated for days. he also took lie detector tests. he was never charged with anything. and when we talked to him, he maintained he had nothing to do with the heist. and what about the regular night watchman who called in sick that night? rick remembers after he buzzed the thieves into the museum, they asked him if he was alone. i wonder if that are you here alone? because there were provisions for are a single guard to be there. i have wondered if are you here alone meant, do they get anybody to come in? but i don t know. reporter: but that night watchman, the one who called in sick, was never charged either. in fact, no museum employee has ever been charged with anything in connection with the crime. though investigators say no one
half-hour between 20 minutes between when they tied us up and when they actually headed into the galleries to start doing it. i ve seen a lot of people questioning, what were they doing? they were probably wait the to see if i did press the panic button. they were probably waiting to see if the cops were going to show up. reporter: according to the in fbi, nearly 9 of every 10 museum heists have an inside component. rick abath who let the thieves in was interrogated for days. he also took lie detector tests. he was never charged with anything. and when we talked to him, he maintained he had nothing to do with the heist. and what about the regular night watchman who called in sick that night? rick remembers after he buzzed the thieves in to the museum, they asked him if he was alone. i wonder if that are you here alone? because there were provisions for are a single guard to be
the panic button. they were probably waiting to see if the cops were going to show up. according to the fbi, nearly nine of every ten museum heists have an inside component. rick abath, the guard who left the thieves in was interrogated for days. he also took lie detector tests. he was never charged with anything. and when we talked with him, he maintained he had nothing to do with the heist. and what about the regular night watchman who called in sick that night? rick remembers after he buzzed the thieves into the museum, they asked him if he was alone. i wonder if that are you here alone? there were provisions for a single guard to be here. i wonder if are you here alone meant did they get anybody to come in? but i don t know. but that night watchman, the one who called in sick, was never charged, either. in fact, no museum employee has ever been charged with anything