MA - Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, Boston, 18 March 1990

[i.b.nora]

Some new additions to the article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ance-footage-night-infamous-1990-robbery.html

 

[dotr]

Some new additions to the article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ance-footage-night-infamous-1990-robbery.html

Curvy hips, are they sure it is a man? imo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ance-footage-night-infamous-1990-robbery.html

 

[LadyL]

or he could have something stashed under his coat that he planted in preparation for the next night?

what could it be?

seems this Rick Abath character neglected protocol two nights in a row - he was either in on it or the worst security guard in history (fwiw, he's on FB with a public profile)

I want to know why this footage is just now being released?

Curvy hips, are they sure it is a man? imo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ance-footage-night-infamous-1990-robbery.html
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[OkieGranny]

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-fbi-dig-robert-gentile-gardner-museum-20160502-story.html

FBI agents Monday were at the home of gangster Robert "Bobby the Cook" Gentile, the top person of interest in the quarter-century effort to recover masterpieces stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Agents set up a tent in the front yard of the Frances Drive home, where they have previous spent time digging. Local police blocked off the street, where Gentile owns a small brown ranch.

Agents arrived in about 15 cars, with two search dogs and three trucks with heavy equipment. The U.S. Attorney's office in Connecticut had no comment on the search.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.whdh.com/story/31895150/missing-art-not-found-at-robert-gentiles-house

A search at an alleged mobster's Connecticut house did not turn up any of the stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-gardner-heist-gentile-competency-1217-20161216-story.html

Prison psychologists are evaluating 80-year old Hartford gangster Robert V. Gentile, the last surviving person of interest in the $500 million Gardner museum art heist, to determine whether he is capable of being tried in Hartford on unrelated gun charges.

Just weeks ago, Gentile's health had become so fragile that he was moved from a federal jail in Rhode Island to a prison hospital in South Carolina. He has since recovered enough for another transfer, to a federal prison medical institution at Butner, N.C., were his ability to assist in his legal defense is being tested.

 

[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Crime/2017/04/06/22716089.html

Eighty-year-old Robert Gentile appeared Thursday in federal court in Hartford in a case stemming from federal agents’ seizure of numerous firearms and ammunition from his home in Manchester. Prosecutors say he should spend close to five years in prison.

Gentile remains detained.
Prosecutors have said they believe Gentile has information about the still-unsolved 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

 

[0101ABA]

New twist in unsolved Gardner Museum art heist

It's the greatest unsolved art heist of all time. And now a Dutch private investigator says he has some leads that could solve the case.

Arthur Brand, a private investigator in Holland, has been called the "Indiana Jones of the art world."

Brand told CBS Boston he is negotiating with people who might be able to return the most valuable collection of art ever stolen – paintings taken in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990.

But time is running out for those who want the reward.

 

[dotr]

New Podcast Opens Up the Cold Case of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Art Heist
Sept 17 2018
"One of the newest true crime podcasts gathering buzz doesn't involve a murder or kidnapping—instead, it investigates one of the most infamous art heists in history. Last Seen, a collaboration between WBUR and The Boston Globe, looks at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, a case that has gone unsolved for 28 years."
"It features interviews with investigators who worked on the case and people who were employed by the museum in the early 1990s, some of whom have never before agreed to speak publicly on the subject".

 

[ColyH]

I heard some of that podcast and I could not believe how slack security was as a whole. It wasn't just Rick Abath it was the other security guards as well who didn't seem to take their jobs that seriously.

Listening to the podcast Abath doesn't seem to care that the artwork was stolen or if the artwork is ever returned. Does he not realize just how bad he screwed up?

 

[dotr]

Also posted on this thread..
Canada- Four pieces of art worth $265,900 stolen from gallery in Toronto,19 April 2021 *CCTV images*

Mar 11, 2021
''500 million dollars worth of missing art. A 10 million dollar reward for whoever finds it. It's your turn to enter the mystery. 30 years ago, two thieves brazenly stole millions of dollars worth of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Where the art is now remains a mystery. Today, investigators reviewing the cold case attempt to recover the missing works, unmask the perpetrators and solve the biggest art heist in history. Watch This Is A Robbery only on https://www.netflix.com/thisisarobbery''

 

[kcmoll]

I just rewatched the docu series(This Is A Robbery). Any new info out there?

 

[dotr]

Bruce Museum Presents “The Caper That Stunned the Art World: The Gardner Museum Heist, 30 Years Later”

With the artworks valued in current terms at possible $500 million or more, an important new lead might just be the key to finally cracking the case.

greenwichfreepress.com

 

[AnonymousSeesYOU]

The indictments here (Everhart Scranton) have been lodged against actors too young to have pulled Gardner off. So saddened to hear this. Ominously, the guy who is still on the lam is alleged to have burned a stolen painting to avoid prosecution. But maybe there was an established route 84 pipeline for stolen art/difficult to traffic stolen goods. Maybe that’s where, how, why these people got involved in the trade. Not rte 95. Follow the rte 84 organized crime toll keepers.

 

[Laughing]

Brought this home from a used book store yesterday:

ThriftBooks was convenient, the book is available from other vendors:

The Art Forger book by Barbara A. Shapiro

This is fiction, of course, but hey I do like the tie-in!

I still say "Clark Rockefeller" and Kingsland were involved....

CA - CA - Linda Sohus, 28, San Marino, 8 February 1985

Fingerprints deepen a mystery Authorities look at possible link between kidnap suspect, Calif. slaying http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/05/fingerprints_deepen_a_mystery/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news

www.websleuths.com

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