Break In 1990 Gardner Museum Heist?
$500M In Art Stolen From Boston Museum
$500M In Art Stolen From Boston Museum
BOSTON -- An inmate at MCI Norfolk said he knows the whereabouts of about $500 million in art stolen almost 20 years ago from a Boston museum.
The March 18, 1990, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist is the largest art theft in modern history. Inside the museum, empty spaces where the 13 missing masterpieces once hung are constant reminders that the crime remains unsolved.
Robert Beauchamp said one of the suspects in the case, George Reissfelder, told him that the pieces were stashed in the walls of a "safe house" in Maine
Beauchamp said Reissfelder and two other people stole the art with the plan of negotiating its return for a lesser sentence for an unrelated crime and stored it in a Maine home. The homeowner and Reissfelder both died before the art could be retrieved, Beauchamp said.
Beauchamp and his attorney, Alec Sohmer, have been working with the FBI and the museum to locate the safe house.
The U.S. attorney said in 2005 that they may be willing to grant immunity from prosecution to anyone returning the masterpieces. The thieves themselves can never be prosecuted because the statute of limitations on their crime ran out years ago.
As a result of the Gardner heist, the statute of limitations on museum theft was extended in this country from five years to 20 years.
Art Hostage comments:
The truth is some of the Gardner paintings did end up in a house in Maine.
That house belonged to Joe Murray and after his murder the paintings were thought to have been retrieved by proxies of Whitey Bulger and some made their way to Ireland.
The Irish connection to the actual Gardner Heist is one of the robbers was of Irish decent, "Mate" and affiliated to the Irish Republican cause. The deep idealogical friendship between Joe Murray and senior figures within the Irish Republican military wings caused Joe Murray to try and bargain the Gardner art for Irish Republican political concessions, the door was slammed shut on this and so the Gardner art began its exile.
Blimey, can you imagine, the Gardner paintings are still in the walls of Joe Murray's Maine home and the FBI have not been up there to look.
That's it, Art Hostage declares the FBI should go straight to the house in Maine that once belonged to Joe Murray and scan all the walls. If they do not find any Gardner paintings then they may find traces of the Gardner paintings ???
However, I always thought some Gardner paintings were only stored at Joe Murray's Maine home and not hidden in the walls.
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To be continued.............................
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