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Gardner Heist Thieves Identified but Paintings Still Lost

March 18, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Rembrandt, The Storm

The FBI says it knows who pulled the greatest art heist of all time at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

“The FBI believes with a high degree of confidence in the years after the theft the art was transported to Connecticut and the Philadelphia region and some of the art was taken to Philadelphia where it was offered for sale by those responsible for the theft. With that confidence, we have identified the thieves, who are members of a criminal organization with a base in the mid-Atlantic states and New England,” Richard DesLauriers, special agent in charge of the Boston office of the FBI, said.

DesLauriers said that after the attempted sale of the paintings about a decade ago, the FBI did not know where the aartworks — which included three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, a portrait by Edouard Manet, and sketches by Renoir — had been taken.

FBI says it has identified the thieves in Gardner Museum heist; paintings’ location still unknown (Boston.com)

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