looked the way i looked. i don t look substantially different other than i didn t have any white hair then. and, you know, i had my berkley college tie-dye on. i did have the gardener security shirt on, but it was over my tie dye and i said okay, i know how this looks. it looks like i put these guard clothes on over my street clothes. here, rick makes another grave mistake. he steps away from the security desk and away from the panic button. his only way to contact the outside world. his only way to prevent what was about to happen. so i came out from behind the desk and i gave him my driver s license and i gave him my security id and i think i was kind of sarcastic about it. i really work here. and he said up against the wall. there s a warrant out for your arrest. and so i put my hands up against the wall and he handcuffed me.
mustache. and i remember before he arrested me, it looked really greasy. i was thinking he was using some funky kind of wax or something on that. it was probably a fake mustache. but the description from rick and the other guard didn t satisfy the f.b.i. even rick admits the sketch they produced didn t really look like either of the two men. i remember, at the time, thinking there s no way they re going to catch these people from this. unfortunately, that s one of the frustrating aspects of this case is the descriptions that are given were very vague. very generic. jeff kelly from the f.b.i. s boston office is the lead agent in this case. without a good description and virtually no other public information about the thooef s identity, the investigators begin to focus their attention on the museum employees. these guys had a very they had a level of comfort in that
different other than i didn t have any white hair then. and, you know, i had my berkley college of music tie-dye on. i did have the gardner security shirt on, but it was over my tie dye, and it was unbuttoned, and i said, okay, i know how this looks. it looks like i put these guard clothes on over my street clothes. here, rick makes another grave mistake. he steps away from the security desk and away from the panic button. his only way to contact the outside world. his only way to prevent what was about to happen. so i came out from behind the desk and i gave him my driver s license and i gave him my security i.d., and i think i was kind of sing-songy, sarcastic about it, i really work here. and he said up against the wall. there s a warrant out for your arrest. and so i put my hands up against the wall and he handcuffed me. he didn t frisk me. he just put a cuff on me.
looked the way i looked. i don t look substantially different other than i didn t have any white hair then. and, you know, i had my berkley college of music tie-dye on. i did have the gardner security shirt on, but it was over my tie dye, and it was unbuttoned, and i said, okay, i know how this looks. it looks like i put these guard clothes on over my street clothes. here, rick makes another grave mistake. he steps away from the security desk and away from the panic button. his only way to contact the outside world. his only way to prevent what was about to happen. so i came out from behind the desk and i gave him my driver s license and i gave him my security i.d., and i think i was kind of sing-songy, sarcastic about it, i really work here. and he said up against the wall. there s a warrant out for your arrest. and so i put my hands up against the wall and he handcuffed me.
throughout his actions in the short gallery, 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 edouard 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 gilded frame and it was here. even though motion detectors picked up the thieves trail by the entrance 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