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Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Bonus // Empty Frames - S1 E1

Crawlspace - True Crime & Mysteries

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Crawlspace. And welcome to the first episode of our new podcast, Empty Frames. Subscribe now! In Empty Frames Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna (Missing Maura Murray, Crawlspace) dig into the mystery of the greatest art heist of all time. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts was robbed of thirteen pieces of artwork on March 18th, 1990. The frames remain empty today, awaiting their return. In episode one Tim & Lance set the scene, talk over some of the theories, and speak to the mysterious Mr. K. about why he brought us all here. Subscribe to Empty Frames on Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/empty-frames/id1339744456 Subscribe to Empty Frames on Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/m/Iaokhskdbtrqy2yd6f4uirgzojm?t=Empty_Frames Subscribe to Empty Frames on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/empty-frames Music by Jared Janzen and Kevin MacLeod. Empty Frames is a co-production of Crawlspace Media & Audioboom. Follow our social media pages: https://twitter.com/empty_frames, https://www.instagram.com/emptyframespodcast/, https://www.facebook.com/EmptyFramespodcast/ Follow Missing Maura Murray: https://twitter.com/MauraMurrayDoc, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/missingmauramurray/, and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MauraMurrayDoc/ Check out our docu-series on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Maura-Murray/dp/B07JHNTGLK. And don't miss the Disappearance of Maura Murray on Oxygen: https://www.oxygen.com/the-disappearance-of-maura-murray Check out the entire Crawlspace Media Network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Follow Private Investigations For the Missing https://investigationsforthemissing.org/ https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/ https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. You're going to do. On March 18th, 1990, the most audacious art heist of all time took place at the Isabella

0:32.0

Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Two men dressed as police

0:36.1

officers were admitted into the building by security, claiming to be responding to a disturbance

0:41.8

call.

0:43.0

In 81 minutes, 13 pieces of art were stolen.

0:47.0

Among the portraits, stripped from their frames were works by Vermeer, Dega and Rembrandt.

0:53.0

Estimated at half a billion dollars, the heist has been categorized as the largest and most frustrating

0:59.3

of all time.

1:00.3

Theories of their whereabouts and those who perpetrated the crime are abundant.

1:04.0

In this podcast series we will dig as deep as possible into the case, the theories,

1:10.0

and the social and economic impact the greatest unsolved art

1:14.3

hist of all time had on the community.

1:17.0

This is empty frames. A hist story. Okay, welcome here, Lance, our first episode of Empty Frames. For this episode

1:40.0

we are going to go through a little bit of the timeline of this incredible theft, and I don't say incredible trying to be complementary.

1:49.0

Well, we say that because when you do a search on most expensive art ice the Isabella Stewart Gardner

1:55.1

is typically number one. And right at the top here I just want to mention that if

1:59.2

you have any information about the stolen artworks or the investigation,

2:03.0

please contact Anthony Amore,

2:05.0

director of security for the Gardner Museum

2:08.0

at Theft at Gardner Museum.org.

2:11.0

Now, we were contacted by our mysterious Mr. Kay and through his resources we are able to

2:20.0

dive into this incredibly complex and elaborate case.

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