A Historical Examination of the Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene  Link to Part Two Link to Part Three Link to Part Four Link to Part Five It is a generally rushed over little series of storyboards in the Gardner Museum Heist drama; how the Museum's security guards were handcuffed by the robbers, wrapped with duct tape, and then led down to the Museum's basement. The accounts of what happened next have varied over the decades, to what might be considered an astonishing degree, that is, if this were some other enduring true crime tale. In the case of the Gardner Museum robbery, though, it is just one more example of how the Gardner Heist is both one of the most covered and least covered in American history. With the epic nature of the thefts, it quickly became  easy to forget perhaps, that  as Tron Brekke reminded almost two months after the robbery, in the May 13,, 1990 Boston Globe, "Unlike other art thefts... at the Gardner they tied