Previous Story
Federal Bureau of Investigation enhances video in unsolved Boston art heist
Posted On Aug 07 2015
Comment: Off
The video surveillance footage from the night of the robbery was taken by the thieves.
(NECN) Law enforcement officials are seeking the public’s help in identifying an unauthorized visitor to Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum the night before a notorious burglary.
The art has never been recovered that was stolen on 18 March 1990.
Federal officials this week released a tape from the day before $500 million in art was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and it raises new questions about the role of a young security guard on duty at the time.
But Peter Kowenhoven, the FBI’s assistant special agent in charge in Boston, tells The Associated Press the thieves are deceased.
Investigators have kept an eye on him and his bank accounts for the simple reason that, according to F.B.I. statistics, most art heists involve someone on the inside. Twenty five years later, the artwork remains missing and no one has ever been charged in the heist. “So now the focus of the investigation is the recovery of the art”. The newly released video shows a auto that matches the description of one previously linked to the robbery pulling up at 12:49 a.m.to the museum’s rear entrance, where an unidentified man gets out and is allowed in through the door.
On Thursday, authorities released grainy surveillance video from the eve of the heist and appealed again to the public for help in finding the artworks.
The FBI has chased thousands of leads around the world in the investigation into the theft of works worth an estimated $500 million, including Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee.” The 13 pieces of art also included paintings by Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Johannes Vermeer.
“By releasing this video, we hope to generate meaningful leads and ultimately recover the stolen artwork”. “Our aim has been to ensure that all avenues have been explored in the continuing quest to recover these artworks”, Ortiz said in a prepared statement.
