BOSTON HEISTS Ep. 5 | Gardner Museum: “The Irish Connection”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Documentary, History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In the first few years after the heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FBI’s investigation follows two parallel tracks. The first to produce possible leads is the Irish Connection as the FBI examines notorious art thief Myles Connor, infamous gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, and local conman Brian McDevitt. A few tantalizing leads develop, but they end in frustration. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.8	On Sunday, March 18, 1990, two thieves spent 81 minutes in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from 124 a.m. to 24 a.m.
1:22.9	As cops and robbers will both say, 81 minutes is an eternity in a heist.
1:28.3	The best publicly available data says that the average bank robbery
1:32.3	lasts between three and five minutes.
1:35.3	Even in an overnight burglary,
1:37.3	when the thieves are confident they've disabled the alarms,
1:40.3	81 minutes would feel like an extraordinary length of time. The movements of the thieves
1:46.2	at the Gardner Museum, tracked by motion sensors, correspond to the theft of 12 items,
1:51.8	four paintings, five drawings, a small Rembrandt etching, a bronze finial, and an ancient Chinese
1:59.4	drinking vessel called a coup.
2:01.7	But that isn't the complete list of stolen items.
2:05.1	In a gallery called the Blue Room on the first floor,
2:08.8	a small painting by Edouard Mene, called Shea Tortoni, was stolen.
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