Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist - 574

The Generation Why Podcast

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True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

March 18, 1990. Boston, Massachusetts. In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a security guard at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum buzzed in two men dressed as police officers. Those two men revealed themselves to be thieves, who quickly tied up both of the guards. They stole 13 pieces of art including works by Rembrandt, Degas, and Vermeer. Despite a large reward offer from the museum and over 30 years of investigation by the FBI, none of the artwork has been recovered. How were these men able to pull off the largest art heist in the world?

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0:06.1	I'm Ted Con Coffey, and this is a man.
0:09.1	All world knows who you, too, are.
0:11.1	This summer. Julian Norton and his lover were found dead at Haggadie's waterhole.
0:15.0	A mystery thought buried.
0:17.0	And they're hiding for months.
0:19.0	The only strikes when they're a need.
0:21.0	Comes back to the surface.
0:23.0	When my boy's autopsy came back, there was something in his blood, not any of the usual
0:28.3	shit, something else.
0:30.3	Two detectives will stop at nothing.
0:32.3	No, no, no, no, there is only going for one batsheet crazy in this spring.
0:36.0	I am not crazy, I'm angry.
0:38.0	To bring the darkness to light.
0:40.0	You start talking, right?
0:41.0	Give the police the biggest drug bust this town's ever seen
0:44.0	he believing comic justice I need to see people pay for what they do in this lifetime
0:49.4	Who did this feels personal? I got no idea
0:54.4	Ted you never gonna believe this he's been under around motors this whole time. Ted? Ted!
0:59.2	Ted! Trapo,
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