Stealing the Sea | 151

True Crime Chronicles

VAULT Studios

True Crime, News

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In the early hours of March 18, 1990, 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston—the single biggest art heist in history. NewsCenterMaine Reporter and Anchor Rob Caldwell recently sat down with Steve Kurkjian, a journalist and author of the book "Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist," to talk through Kurkjian's theory as to who was behind the theft. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is of all studios production.
0:04.0	I'm Reed Redmond.
0:06.0	I'm Will Johnson.
0:07.0	The show contains graphic material
0:09.0	and is meant for mature audiences.
0:11.0	This week on True Crime Chronicles.
0:14.0	A Boston is not unique in the underworld code of omarta.
0:20.0	That is, you don't talk.
0:22.0	You don't give it up.
0:24.0	Even if you're not involved
0:26.0	and you don't know anything, you don't talk about it.
0:29.0	It's a really interesting notion that a theft of this magnitude,
0:32.0	the greatest art heist in history was carried out
0:35.0	so that these would have bargaining chips
0:37.0	to get people out of prison.
0:39.0	It's still the frames of the paintings in the museum,
0:43.0	but no paintings.
0:45.0	But for the artist who wants to see
0:47.0	how did Rembrandt paint the sea.
0:50.0	Only one painting shows that.
0:53.0	That was hanging on the second floor of the Isabella Story Garden Museum.
0:59.0	Step inside a Venetian palace,
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