At 1:24 a.m. on March 18, 1990, two men buzzed the side door of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum claiming to answer a disturbance call. Eighty-one minutes later they left with 13 masterpieces — a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, a Manet — in the largest property theft in history. It has never been solved, and by the terms of the founder's will, the looted frames must stay on the wall, empty, forever.
A news walk-through of the galleries where the gilded frames remain bolted to the walls with nothing inside — a deliberate, eerie placeholder for art that may never come home.
The museum's own account of the night, the ongoing $10 million reward, and its plea for the return of the works. Straight from the victims.
The definitive timeline: how the guards were duct-taped in the basement, which alarms went unheeded, and the decades of dead-end leads through the Boston underworld.
A piece-by-piece catalog of what vanished — from a Vermeer worth $250 million to a bronze eagle finial and an ancient Chinese beaker. Why the thieves' choices baffle experts to this day.
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee — Rembrandt's sole painting of the sea — was sliced out of its frame that night. Meet the crown jewel of the missing haul.
The suspects, the mob theories, and the tantalizing 2013 FBI claim that they knew who did it — but couldn't find the paintings.
The four-part docuseries that traced the crime to Boston's organized-crime figures and named the men who may have carried the canvases out into the night.