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
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 edward 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, guilded frame and it was here. even though motion detectors picked up the thooef s trail by the instance 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 night to help pass the time on
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. everyone rick admits the sketch they produced didn t really look like either of the two men. i remember, at the time, thinki 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 museum that really points to the fact that if it wasn t an inside job, they definitely had inside information. both the f.b.i. and the
it was probably a fake mustache. but the description from rick and the other guard didn t satisfy the f.b.i. everyone 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 museum that really points to the fact that if it wasn t an inside job, they definitely had inside information. both the f.b.i. and the museum security director are stuck on the fact that the thieves spent 81 minutes inside the museum.
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 edward 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, guilded frame and it was here. even though motion detectors picked up the thooef s trail by the instance 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.