The FBI and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum received a flood of tips from around the country Tuesday, as new details emerged about the turning point in the investigation of the notorious Gardner Museum heist 23 years ago.
The latest, exhaustive phase in the inquiry is based on a tip that a caller made to authorities in 2010, according to Anthony Amore, the Gardner Museum’s head of security and chief investigator.
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The artwork is right under their noses. They are hanging in Whitey's cell. The FBI can't get to them because of that immunity deal.
Is there anybody out there aside from the Globe that actually cares about the paintings? If they are never recovered, I would not lose a minutes sleep for the rest of my life. Please stop force feeding us the continous updates, nobody cares.
Yes, there are hundreds of thousands of people who would like to have Rembrandt's "Storm on the Sea of Galilee" available for the world to see instead of shut up somewhere for a rich man's private pleasure. The art stolen from the Gardner Museum is part of our human heritage.
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It was rumored within the Allston antique dealer community of which I am a part that Billy Youngworth knew who took the paintings years before he first moved to Randolph where eventually the case broke. Perhaps they should ask him again.
I have a picture in my garage of a sad-faced clown painted on black velvet. I have another one in my basement of four dogs playing poker. It's pretty funny. I don't think either one is from the Gardner heist, but the police want the public's help, and I'm the public, and those are the only paintings that I have, so maybe I should bring them in to the Boston FBI office and let the feds take a look just in case. What do you think?
I think you just wasted my time
Didn't the Glob recently publish a bit of rather tasteless fiction about one of the Gardner Museum guards opening a door and getting himself hogtied with duct-tape the night the paintings were stolen. And didn't waid Boston Glob also suggest in that obviously imaginary waste of newsprint that said Gardner guard was right up there with folks such as Myles Connor in the minds of the artistically minded federal supercops who seek information from Estonia or Bhutan about the whereabouts of the Rembrandt seascape? Some of we historically-minded folks can also recall a Boston Herald (oh heavens, somebody mentioned the name of that more than worthy competitor with the Boston Glob inside the pages of said Glob!!!) reporter masher who got published a story about meeting some maybe made men who showed and told him tales about Gardner art works. Cullen and Murphy are spending too much time peddling a tome, when they should be out on the street scooping up more stuff about the duct-tape guard, the open door, and the question of where the original robbers got the Boston Police uniforms. Doin't forget - $5 million, immunity, no charges for the robbery. Lots of inducements... maybe a Feebee that is in the robber's pocket. After all, this latter point has happened before.
So if the present holders of the paintings fess up and return them, do they get 5 million as a reward and also go free?
So if the present holders of the paintings fess up and return them, do they get 5 million as a reward and also go free?
They know who? Why don't they put them in a room and waterboard them, torture them or start slicing them with a knife until they talk, if they don't their dead and move on to the next guy.