197 | The Gardner Museum Heist
Best Case Worst Case
X-G Productions
4.1 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The largest art heist in US history bagged $500 million in stolen art. Who took it? Where is it now? Retired FBI Agent Bob Wittman gives inside secrets to the investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's about 500 million today compared to what the value of the heart is. |
| 0:08.8 | And believe it or not, that's the largest single property crime in US history. |
| 0:14.0 | So you've been monitoring the case, your undercover, all over the world, |
| 0:17.9 | your shady art deal, your professor, your an FBI agent. |
| 0:21.3 | So that tells me as an FBI profiler that perhaps these weren't the most sophisticated art |
| 0:28.4 | criminals in the history of art thieves. |
| 0:37.1 | Hello and welcome to the best case worst case. |
| 0:38.9 | This is Jim Clementi Retard, FBI profiler former New York City prosecutor |
| 0:42.3 | and writer producer of CBS's Criminal Minds. |
| 0:44.6 | And with me today from California is I know I Jim, |
| 0:49.9 | hi everybody, it's francey Higgs, former state and federal prosecutor. |
| 0:53.3 | I am in California, but everyone I want you to know that because of social |
| 0:56.9 | distancing or at least that's the excuse he's using. |
| 1:00.1 | You would not let me come to his home studio today. |
| 1:03.0 | So I'm stuck by myself staring at Jim in a camera. |
| 1:05.6 | I think COVID wonderful. |
| 1:06.8 | Anyway, aren't you excited today francey because we haven't extraordinarily |
| 1:12.0 | special guests today who is. |
| 1:14.8 | Hi, I'm Bob Whitman. |
| 1:15.8 | I'm a retired FBI special agent and happy to have you with us. |
| 1:21.9 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, Bob, it is so great to have you. |
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