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This Is a Robbery review: Famed Gardner art heist investigated
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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.
A little after 1 a.m. on March 18, night guard Rick Abath buzzed two uniformed men into the building who said they had been called about a disturbance into the museum. When they entered, they asked him to tell his partner doing rounds to return to the security desk as well, and once he did, they bound, blindfolded, and cuffed both guards in the museum’s basement. The two men dressed as Boston Police officers then spent over an hour making their way through the museum, slicing precious artworks as well as some strange choices out of their frames, and leaving a bit before 3 a.m. Authorities were alerted only once museum staff arrived in the morning to find the night guards tied up in the basement, the historic building in a state of disarray, and several works of art stolen, with the security video tape missing. In the 31 years since, no one has been arrested for the crime.
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A photo in the new Netflix documentary “This Is a Robbery” (now streaming) shows convicted art thief and rock ’n’ roll singer Myles Connor Jr. holding a baby leopard in his lap while a parrot perches on his fingers. In voiceover, Connor’s lawyer, Martin Leppo, recalls first meeting Connor in Boston s Mattapan Square, where his client had a “baby cougar or mountain lion on a leash.”
“Myles was the man,” Leppo says.
That’s one anecdote director Colin Barnicle uses to illustrate Connor’s larger-than-life persona in the four-part documentary that chronicles the infamous – and still unsolved – March 18, 1990, heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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