Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime Podcast.

Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.

There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.

If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.

If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.

Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential.

Big response from the first episode on the Isabella

Stewart Gardner Museum Heist of 1990. Guys, I think I need to apologize a little bit. There's something I left

out about the timeline. I know we didn't get through the entire robbery in the first episode,

and I'll take you through that briefly. But much like when I

heard about this case in 1990, it all came down to the security guards, right? Because they're the

linchpin in this heist, because these two guys show up as cops knocking on the door, and what happens if the security guy says,

okay, what are your badge numbers?

I'm going to call the BPD, and I'll let you write in.

I'm sorry you'd be an ass, but this is a security protocol,

and it was their security protocol.

But what I neglected to mention during the timeline of the robbery during the first episode was that at 124 a.m. on the 18th, remember, the intrusion started on March 17th. This whole score started on March 17th in the late hours. and then it went into the early morning of March 18th.

So at 124, the police arrive at the door, but just prior to that, and this is my mistake, I neglected to tell you about this.

Just a few minutes prior to that, Rick Abath opens the side door,

which is again against protocol. And why does he open it? Well, the speculation is, and it's a pretty

good theory. That's the signal that Rick will now take control of the guard booth

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