Today is Friday, March 18th, 2022.

On this day in 1990, criminals broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts,

and stole 13 famous pieces of art, today worth over $500 million.

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Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. Today we're talking about the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, Heist, one of the most profitable thefts in American history. Now let's go back to March 18, 1990, to Boston, Massachusetts.

Shortly after 1 AM, a security guard named Richard Abeth sat at the front desk of the Gardner Museum.

Meanwhile, another watchkeeper named Randy patrolled the hallways.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a masterpiece in itself.

Once serving as a home to the famed art collector, the Gardner Mansion had been styled to look like a Venetian palace.

The building's lavish gardens and classical architecture was the perfect place to store some of the world's most valuable treasures. The museum housed thousands of art pieces, ranging from ancient

China all the way through Renaissance Europe and early modern America. Works by Vermeer,

Botticelli, Rambrand, and countless other artists stood proudly on display.

But in the early hours of March 18th, the majesty of the museum was disrupted. A buzz on the

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