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Best Case Worst Case

198 | The Gardner Museum Heist Part 2

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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 continues with part 2 of this investigation

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0:00.0

The Gardener Museum in Boston was robbed of 300 million and probably at least 500 million

0:11.5

in today's dollars worth of art.

0:15.3

You're shady enough to be carrying around or have access to 30 million dollars to pay

0:19.8

for these paintings.

0:20.8

They were always using knives.

0:23.8

They told me they like to bring knives to the meetings.

0:26.6

But I have two guns.

0:29.2

Hello, welcome to the best case worst case.

0:38.8

This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler for New York City prosecutor and writer producer

0:42.8

of CBS's criminal minds.

0:44.2

And with me today is...

0:45.2

Hi everybody, it's Francie Hanks, former state and federal prosecutor Jim.

0:49.6

I'm still in California.

0:51.5

I'm still not in the studio with you.

0:54.2

We're still social difference.

0:56.5

Back with us is our really exciting guest, right?

1:01.0

Yes, and he is.

1:03.0

It's Bob Whitman, I'm a retired FBI special agent and I was the art specialist for the Bureau.

1:08.8

Well, I'm sure the Bureau loved having you as an art specialist and hated having you

1:14.0

as an art specialist because I know when I was working undercover, I hated the FBI.

1:20.3

It was the kind of thing where the rules and regulations fought tremendously with the

1:28.1

things that they wanted me to do undercover and it was always a fight and I always had

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