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Of course he’s dead. They guy looked old 25 years ago.
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Not the FBI’s finest, still continuing, hour…
I was in the Gardner prior to the robbery and remember lingering before the Rembrandt and the Vermeer…
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Same here, many times; all these years later, this still breaks my heart.
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We talk about strange human behavior as it relates to politics here in the TPM space but some of the strangest human behavior I have ever witnessed occurred with people associated with extremely valuable, sometimes famous fine art…
Who did this heist? And we have through the great investigative work identified who did this heist
Bang up job, only took a quarter-century. Maybe in another few years they’ll identify who kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.
Does Dick Cheney have an alibi?
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You are a little confused, these are oil paintings…not oil wells…
Abe Vigoda looked old for the Godfather in 1972. He’s still alive though…43 years later…
One of those involved in the heist went to my high school. He was an honors student, and he died some years ago while still hiding out in South America. He was a popular, preppy kid whose father was an administrator at our school. Really weird.
Actually they did a fine job, Bruno kidnapped the baby based on evidence, including evidence that has been re-examined in the past 15 years. The only question was if he worked with others, but you would think he would have made a deal to get off by ratting them out if there were others.
In this case, this was very well done, not so easy to catch a very well done crime. Different now, surveillance cams and such for high security areas are much better, and the internet has made researching things much easier.
Maybe I’m wrong on the timeline or some other fact - it is very possible, I only read the article and know nothing else about the case - but it seems it took the FBI 25 years to release surveillance footage to help ID the robber. Did they not have the footage? If not, why not? Why wait 25 years?
This is about the best write up I found on it.
Here is the FBI page on the press conference in 2013. Looks like they were going by the sketches of the two guys in cop uniforms from the beginning. The guy on the video is not the robber, he may have been a “scout” though.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/reward-offered-for-return-of-stolen-gardner-museum-artwork/reward-offered-for-return-of-stolen-gardner-museum-artwork
At this point they can’t prosecute, recovering some of the art is the goal. And it looks like that video was not properly reviewed the first time, and then was stored with a mountain of other evidence until 2013, when an agent re-investigating the case pulled it and had a look.
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