In the early morning of March 18, 1990, two thieves entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 pieces of precious art, including paintings by Vermeer and Rembrandt. To this day, those paintings, valued at $500 million dollars, have never been recovered.
The story of the bold heist and the various attempts to recover the paintings–they get told in a 10-part series of podcasts called Last Seen. Created by WBUR and The Boston Globe, the true-crime podcast “takes us inside the ongoing effort to bring back the jewels of the Gardner collection.” You can listen to the engrossing episodes online, or via iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. Or simply stream the episodes below. And if you know anything that cracks the case, there’s a $5 million dollar reward.
Episode 1
Episode 2
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Episode 7
Episode 8
Episode 9
Episode 10
To delve deeper, you can also read two books on the mystery: Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist and The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft.
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