The 1990 Gardner Museum Heist (Episode 67)

On St. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 works of art, ranging from a Vermeer masterpiece to a decorative eagle. By dawn the next morning, the thieves and the art had vanished, and clues were few and far between. In the thirty-odd years since the theft, not one piece has been recovered, despite a $10 million reward. 

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Sources include:

"The Gardner Heist" by U. Boser, 2009

"This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist", Netflix documentary, 2021

"About Isabella and her Museum", staff writer for ISGM, n.d.

"Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924)", by B. H. Smith for Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, n.d.

"25 Years After Gardner Museum Heist, Video Raises Questions" by T. Mashberg for the New York Times, 2015

"Milton art thief Myles Connor steals scenes in Netflix doc on Gardner museum heist", by D. Barbuto for The Patriot Ledger, 2021

"What to Know About the Gardner Museum Heist", by N. McGreevy for Smithsonian Magazine, 2021