337 - Heist! The $600 Million Gardner Museum Robbery
Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Dick Abbeth, the Security Guard at the Museum
Ricky Dick Abbeth was one of just two security guards working the night shift that had to have boosted their confidence for a heist. He cooperated pretty quickly with the art thieves, in part because he didn't want to risk getting arrested somehow. A source describes this as the umpt-teeth-teeth time: "He will see them dead and then be tied up"
On March 18th, 1990 two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and overpowered the two security guards on duty. In just 81 minutes, the thieves stole over $600 MILLION worth of historic art. Valued at over $200 million at the time. The Gardner Museum heist remains the biggest art theft in the world - and the biggest private property theft in US history if not in the history of world. Thirty-three years later, the case still remains unsolved. So who stole thirteen very valuable works of art? Where are they now? All of this and so much more in a unique, true crime edition of Timesuck.
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