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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist: A $500 Million Art Robbery
TLDR Thieves stole 13 valuable works of art worth over $500 million from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art robbery in American history. Despite multiple suspects and investigations, the stolen artwork has never been recovered.
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Thieves stole 13 valuable works of art worth over $500 million in the largest robbery in American history at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum had lax security measures, including no security cameras and only one button to call the police, which made it vulnerable to a potential art robbery.
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Two men dressed as policemen arrived at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and convinced the guards to let them in by claiming there was a disturbance call.
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Two men dressed as policemen arrived at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, handcuffed the guards, took them to the basement, and then proceeded to steal 13 valuable art pieces, including a Vermeer painting, before leaving the building in a span of 81 minutes.
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The robbers were likely not art experts and did not target specific pieces, as they left behind more valuable objects, leading to suspicion on the guards and organized crime, including Whitey Bulger and the Irish Republican Army.
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Possible suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist include Robert Guarente, Robert Gentili, and Bobby Donati, but there is not enough evidence to definitively pin the crime on any of them.
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No one has been arrested or admitted guilt in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, the paintings have never been found, and the museum has chosen to hang empty frames in place of the stolen artwork.
