The crowdsourcing campaign to identify the unauthorized mystery visitor which began on August 6, 2015 might be thought of as the third of three crowd sourcing campaigns related to the Gardner Heist. The first crowdsourcing or “ publicity campaign ”  began on March 18, 2013 and included a press release, a press conference as well as a dedicated FBI webpage on the Gardner Museum theft, video postings on FBI social media sites, publicity on digital billboards in Philadelphia region, and a podcast. That campaign was focused exclusively on the possible whereabouts of the paintings. Federal investigators refused to identify and would  “not provide details about the thieves,” although both the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz, and the Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, Richard DesLauriers, were  pressed hard by Emily Rooney on the WGBH News program Greater Boston on this question.  Investigators went so far as to suggest and con...