In the early morning hours of March 18th, 1990, just hours after Boston's annual St. Patrick's Day revelry, two men dressed as security guards conned a museum night watchman at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum into allowing them access to the museum. After disarming the two guards and deactivating the alarm system, they looted artwork of their choosing and disappeared into history.
There is no shortage of theories as to who performed the robbery and what happened to the stolen art, but none have been substantiated. Since that day, the FBI has theorized that Boston mobsters performed the heist, despite evidence that suggests otherwise. Today, 31 years later, the robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains unsolved.
“The truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes more incriminating.”
— George Cox
This book presents that two Connecticut cousins stole the art and, after the fact, enlisted the aid of two Connecticut men of means to assist in selling the stolen art. Of these men, one is deceased, one is missing, presumed dead, and may only be guilty of making an introduction. Another is in prison serving a life term for murder, and one has been convicted of multiple financial crimes.
