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Episode 1: '81 Minutes'

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WBUR

True Crime, Missing, Mystery, Boston, Society & Culture

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In 1990, two thieves stole 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We take a closer look at what happened that night.

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0:00.0

From WBWR and the Boston Globe, this is last scene, a podcast that investigates the largest

0:09.2

unsolved art heist in history.

0:11.2

We're in a strange place, many people don't know how I'm up here.

0:24.8

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

0:32.7

It's an unseasonably warm October day in Boston.

0:36.1

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

0:40.8

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

0:46.2

We're going to go around this corner here.

0:49.3

At 6'2", Amore has to walk, doubled over beneath the slanted eaves.

0:55.1

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

1:00.0

almost 30 years ago.

1:02.2

The attic space is dominated by a massive HVAC system.

1:06.1

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

1:10.7

temperature and humidity level.

1:13.7

We step out of the low amber light into much cooler air and quiet.

1:25.7

I think this is what Amore has taken me to see, a storeroom of the sumptuous textiles

1:30.4

used on furniture and walls throughout the Gardner Museum.

1:34.0

But that's not why we're here.

1:36.3

In the back of the room, in a space barely wide enough to accommodate us both, Amore

1:41.1

puts his cellphones flashlight on and pulls a plastic cover off something big.

1:48.1

Oh wow.

1:50.1

This is...

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