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unhappycamper

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Fri Aug 7, 2015, 05:59 AM Aug 2015

Could never-before seen video lead to finding of $500 million in never-again seen art?

http://www.tauntongazette.com/article/20150806/NEWS/150807810/0/breaking_ajax



In this March 18, 1990 still image from surveillance video released by the U.S. Attorney's Office,Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015, an unauthorized visitor walks inside the rear entrance of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Robbers stole more than a dozen works of art at the museum about 24 hours later. Twenty five years later, the artwork remains missing and no one has ever been charged in the heist.

Could never-before seen video lead to finding of $500 million in never-again seen art?
By Denise Lavoie
Associated Press
Posted Aug. 6, 2015 at 1:36 PM
Updated Aug 6, 2015 at 1:47 PM

BOSTON (AP) — Twenty-five years after the famed art heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, law enforcement officials released new surveillance video Thursday showing an unauthorized visitor entering the museum the night before the robbery.

Authorities hope the never-before seen video will spark leads to help recover the 13 pieces of stolen artwork, worth at least $500 million.

The low-resolution video shows a security guard appearing to hit an intercom button, then to grant access to a man who can be seen in the museum’s reception area at about 12:49 a.m. on March 17, 1990, nearly exactly 24 hours before the heist.

The man is also seen getting out of a car matching the general description of one reported to be parked outside the museum minutes before the theft. He uses the same rear entrance as the thieves, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, which released the video.

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Could never-before seen video lead to finding of $500 million in never-again seen art? (Original Post) unhappycamper Aug 2015 OP
The artwork is probably hanging in a "private gallery." Raster Aug 2015 #1
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