Justice
25 Years Later, a Renewed Campaign to Solve Boston's Greatest Art Heist
In a city still reeling from the Marathon bombings, questions of what's been lost resonate.
Twenty-five years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning as St. Patrick’s Day celebrations were winding down, two men dressed as Boston policemen appeared at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston, and the security guard on duty let them in.
They were not cops but thieves, and after handcuffing and wrapping the guard and his colleague in duct tape and leaving them in the basement, they proceeded to steal 13 paintings by cutting the canvasses from their frames, and hauled the artworks of Vermeer, Rembrandt and others out into the night.