Photo: Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — 34 years ago Monday, two thieves disguised as Boston police officers walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
They bound both night watchmen.
They cut paintings from their frames.
Then they walked out with $500 million in art.
The thieves were never found. Neither were the works of art, 13 in all.
To this day, empty frames adorn the museum walls where the paintings once hung.
$10 million is still set aside for anyone with information "leading directly to the safe return of the stolen works," the museum says.
Both main suspects have died in the decades since the heist.
Richard Abath, the night watchman who let the thieves into the museum, died in February.
He was 23 years old on March 18, 1990.
He spent the rest of his life as a person of interest, but always maintained his innocence.
WBZ NewsRadio's Kyle Bray (@KyleBrayWBZ) reports.
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