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By oddjob60 on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 11:10am

The U.S. Attorney's Office has released previously unseen surveillance video which they say may be related to the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner heist:

The video also shows an unidentified man exiting the automobile and then being allowed inside the Museum, against Museum policy, by a security guard. That event occurred at 12:49 p.m. on March 17, 1990, almost exactly 24 hours before the thieves entered the museum through the same door.

The thieves who arrived the following night stole 13 works of art which are now valued at $500 million. The news release from the US Attorney continues:

While the images of both the vehicle and the unidentified man are low resolution, law enforcement officials hope that releasing the footage will assist with identifying the man or the vehicle in the video.

Anyone with information regarding the video should call the FBI at 617-742-5533 or the Isabella Gardner Museum at 617-278-5114.


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By jaypee on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 11:29am.

..?

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By Hyde_Parker on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 11:54am.

Whitey Bulger had it.

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By Felicity on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:46pm.

Enhancements?

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By anon on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:11pm.

There are 3 different guys in the video, right? First is an older gentleman in front of the counter. Second is the long haired night watchman behind the counter. Third is the suspect in front of the counter at the 5 minute mark who then leaves and gets into the car out front? First guy is not a suspect?

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By Roslindaler on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:27pm.

You know who knows who the guy with the up-turned leaving the building is? The old guy who let him in. Presumably he sleeps with the fishes. I find it odd that the camera seemingly captured every 2 seconds of video but did not get a picture of the guy with the up-turned colar coming into the building even though it captured him going out. At the very least, someone should edit this so that the Camera 1 and Camera 2 footage are separated from each other so that you can actually watch it without going insane.

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By Hyde_Parker on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:44pm.

I find the bouncing back and forth confusing.

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By anon on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:51pm.

Two seperate videos side by side would be good.

Did the old guy let him in? I thought the old guy left, crossed the street, and maybe got in the car. The guy with upturned collar seemed to come from around the corner and there isn't a good shot of him entering fully. And when he leaves he goes back around the corner and not across to the car. And then the car leaves.

It's hard to tell but the collar on the jacket appears to be identical (an elongated style). Are they wearing the same jacket?

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By ISG on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 3:39pm.

Inside camera:

Outside camera:

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By Hyde_Parker on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:43pm.

Who was the older guy at the beginning of the video, and he's different than the guy who (I guess) comes in from the car?

I wish the FBI would label the people.

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By Felicity on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 12:49pm.

I had to click out before I had a mother fucking seizure!

There should be an epilepsy warning on this shit. I can't find my eyeballs.

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By anon on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 6:42pm.

Investigators for years figured that Abath had simply made a poor decision by allowing the alleged disguised robbers inside.

A then-23-year-old Berklee College of Music dropout and a member of a struggling rock band, Abath was moonlighting as a security guard. He has admitted that, at that time in his life, he regularly drank alcohol and smoked pot and also sometimes took LSD and cocaine. He said sometimes showed up for his midnight shift at the Gardner drunk or stoned, but that on the night of the heist he was completely sober.

Yet investigators believe Abath’s partying lifestyle at the time of the heist could have led him to meet the kind of people who might carry out such a crime, and they’ve pointed out that studies show a vast majority of museum robberies have been inside jobs.

Abath also made other curious moves prior to the heist. He had just given his two-week notice to quit the security job, and on the night of the robbery, about 20 minutes before the thieves came to the door, Abath quickly opened and shut the door just before he replaced his partner at the security desk.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/06/guard-gardner-case-spotligh....

His prior story of thinking the thieves were cops falls apart here. If he let two complete schlubs into the place at around 1:00am the prior night, knowing such was forbidden, he was probably the inside accomplice or painfully stupid.

And the interaction with the two others suggests familiarity.

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By PeyoteEatingWaterBear on Thu, 08/06/2015 - 7:38pm.

This 25 year old grainy videotape stuff is ridiculous. Is this a joke, or did the local FBI just hire Richard Davey from Boston2024 & put him in charge of the ISG heist cold case unit? A few years back, I got drunk with an old timer at the Shipwreck Lounge on Revere Beach and he told me a crazy story that ended with the ISG paintings being owned by Walter Cronkhite on Martha's Vineyard who got nervous about his reputation as America's most trusted newsman being tarnished if the paintings were found in his possession after his death and then sold them to one of the heirs to the Saudi bin Laden Group construction company who lived in Cambridge in the 90s & fled the US back to Saudi in a private jet paid for by the US government on 9-12-2001 (along with the stolen art). Whatever, anyways I'll bet anybody a 20-piece chicken McNuggets from the Chinatown McDonalds that the stolen ISG art is NEVER found.

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By oddjob60 on Fri, 08/07/2015 - 9:26am.

According to a number of reports, the people seen in the video are (in order of appearance):

  • Older security guard, who leaves go make his rounds of the museum
  • Richard Abath, the younger security guard with long curly hair
  • Mystery visitor, who is buzzed in by Abath and spends about three minutes inside, including examining what appear to be some papers with Abath.
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