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Dear Sugars

Dear Sugars Presents: Last Seen

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Sugar, Wbur, Dear, Society & Culture, Cheryl Strayed, Advice, Steve Almond, Boston

4.55.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

From our partners at WBUR, a new podcast that looks into the greatest unsolved art heist in history: the theft of half a billion dollars worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, sugar fans, we want to recommend a great new podcast.

0:03.5

Last scene from WBUR and The Boston Globe.

0:06.9

Last scene investigates the largest unsolved art heist in history.

0:10.9

The theft of 13 pieces half a billion dollars worth of art

0:14.7

from the Isabella Stewart-Garner Museum in Boston.

0:17.6

It includes first-ever interviews, unprecedented access,

0:20.8

and more than a year of investigative reporting.

0:23.8

Here's episode number one.

0:30.5

We're in a strange place when many people don't have them up here.

0:33.5

You might have to duck a lot and we're in the attic.

0:41.4

It's an unseasonably warm October day in Boston.

0:44.8

The attic at the Isabella Stewart-Garner Museum is stuffy and dimly lit.

0:49.7

Anthony Amore, the museum's head of security, has something he wants me to see.

0:54.9

We're going to go around this corner here.

0:58.0

At 6'2", Amore has to walk,

1:00.4

doubled over beneath the slanted eaves.

1:03.9

We are high above galleries once ransacked by thieves in a daring overnight robbery,

1:08.9

almost 30 years ago.

1:10.9

The attic space is dominated by a massive HVAC system.

1:14.8

It's hum proof that it's working to keep treasures on the floors below

1:18.8

at just the right temperature and humidity level.

1:22.3

Almost there.

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