Gardner Heist Basement Crime Scene Links



Links To Resources referenced in The Gardner Museum Heist Basement Crime Scene Series 


Link to Part One

 Gardner  Museum Robbery Security Guard Rick Abath on a StoryCorps podcast which aired on NPR March 13, 2015
https://storycorps.org/listen/rick-abath-and-diana-abath-150313/

 August 11, 2015 WGBH Greater Boston: Jim Braude interviewing Gardner Museum Security Director and Chief Investigator, Anthony Amore, five days after the release of the Gardner Heist Eve surveillance video by the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts on August 6, 2015.  
http://video.wgbh.org/video/2365543905/

 Author Stephen Kurkjian discusses his 2015 book Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist and the Gardner Heist at the Weston, MA Public Library on January 20, 2016.
https://archive.org/details/Stephen_Kurkjian_at_Weston_Public_Library_January_20_2016

 The Gardner Heist and Stolen Art February 24, 2010 WBUR On Point with Tom Ashbrook Radio Interview with Robert Wittman, former senior investigator and founder of the FBI’s National Art Crime Team, plus then-director of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum since 1989, Anne Hawley  and Anthony Amore, director of security for the Gardner Museum.
http://onpoint.legacy.wbur.org/2010/02/24/stolen-art

 "The Great Gardner Heist" This is a video supplement of the same February 24, 2010 On Point with Tom Ashbrook WBUR program. It includes interviews with Anthony Amore and Anne Hawley and a guided tour of the museum basement and some of the areas where paintings were stolen
https://youtu.be/84iJDlWfXaE?t=

 Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World's Greatest Art Heist by Stephen Kurkjian
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Thieves-Boston-Gangsters-Greatest/dp/1610396324

 CNN: Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees (Transcript) 81 Minutes: Inside the Greatest Art Heist in History: Most in depth interview of Rick Abath, plus Anthony Amore and Boston FBI's Geoffrey Kelly from 3/22/13.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1303/24/acd.01.html

 Evidence in Gardner Museum thefts that might bear DNA is missing
By Shelley Murphy and Stephen Kurkjian 6/12/17. "The FBI, which collected the crime scene evidence, lost the duct tape and handcuffs, according to three people familiar with the investigation."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/12/evidence-gardner-museum-thefts-that-might-bear-dna-missing/bQgapZNs1FKlTczoAijqnJ/story.html

 25 Years After Gardner Museum Heist, Video Raises Questions by Tom Mashberg New York Times August 6, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/arts/design/25-years-after-gardner-museum-heist-video-raises-questions.html

History Channel: History’s Biggest Art Heist Remains Unsolved, 25 Years Later by Christopher Klein March 18, 2015 
http://www.history.com/news/historys-biggest-art-heist-remains-unsolved-25-years-later
Excerpt from The Night They Robbed the Gardner, Yankee Magazine, October 1992.
Interesting from a historical perspective of how the robbery was reported about a few years after the event.
https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/gardner-museum-robbery/

"Anatomy of a Heist" Boston Globe 2005 (Timeline-Graphic) March 13,2005
http://archive.boston.com/news/packages/gardner/graphic2.pdf










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