The Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene (Part Three)  Link to Part One Link to Part Two  Link to Part Three  Link to Part Four  Link to Part Five Perhaps seeing the dramatic potential of guards imprisoned in the basement, television news programs have stuck with the more lurid, often but inaccurate descriptions of the guards’ predicament. These have included programs with on-air appearances by lead investigators in the case, such as the Gardner Heist segment in 2013 on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360. That broadcast reported that “his eyes and mouth were duct-taped and he feared for his life.“ On an American Greed, Season 2 Episode 9 , which first aired on February 13, 2008, Boston Globe journalist Stephen Kurkjian said: "they quickly tied him up put around his mouth and his ears and everything."  But Abath's mouth was not duct taped and his eyes were less than completely covered.  He said that he could see, even before the...