“Thieves Identified in Gardner Museum Theft of Rembrandt and Vermeer Paintings” via The Boston Globe
FBI & Gardner Museum offer $5 million reward for information leading to the paintings’ recovery.
The works were stolen in an early morning theft reminiscent of a movie plot exactly 23 years ago today in 1990. The statute of limitations has run out for the thieves - unnamed members of a “criminal organization with a base in the mid-Atlantic states and New England”- but the FBI are reaching out to the public to assist in bringing a close to this “final chapter” of the still-unsolved case.
(That aside, though, the FBI reaaaaally needs to reconsider hiring whoever did the sound for that video…)
