In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave a career gangster the tip of a lifetime: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was a big score waiting to happen. When it finally did, nearly a decade later, the theft quickly became one of the most infamous art heists in history: thirteen works of art valued at up to $500 million were taken. Investigative reporter Stephen Kurkjian sheds new light on the case, still unsolved twenty-five years later.
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