Rick Abath has said that in 1990, he let the thieves who stole more than $500 million worth of art into the museum because they claimed to be police officers investigating a disturbance.
BOSTON (WHDH) - Richard “Rick” Abath, the security guard who notoriously buzzed two thieves into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Museum during the 1990 art<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://whdh.com/news/security-guard-who-worked-night-of-gardner-museum-heist-has-died/">Read More</a>
Rick Abath has said that in 1990, he let the thieves who stole more than $500 million worth of art into the museum because they claimed to be police officers investigating a disturbance.
The former security guard who allowed two thieves into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 34 years ago has died. The heist of over $500 million in artwork remains unsolved.