The FBI’s New Leads on the Greatest Art Theft in History

The Takeaway

Twenty-three years ago this week, in a now-infamous case, a pair of thieves dressed as police officers gained entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts  and stole $500 million dollars worth of art.
Geoff Kelly, special agent and the lead investigator for the FBI on the case says the agency has a new lead.

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