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 Ash

A Historical Examination of the Gardner Museum Heist's Basement Crime Scene   Link to Part One Was Abath really imprisoned in the Museum basement like the other guard? At least 13 minutes passed between the time the two thieves split off into different sections of the museum basement, each with one of the security guards in their custody, and when they were first detected in a Museum gallery, the Dutch Room. That was plenty of time for the thief, who escorted Abath away from the other security guard to remove the tape and handcuffs from him and then make his way to the second floor gallery with Abath along perhaps as a lookout. And since the other security guard was being taped up as well, that guard was not in a position to know to what extent Abath had actually been taped up in the first place. There is nothing about the way Abath is taped and handcuffed in the basement in the police photo that could not have been done by Abath himself, acting alone.