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The Gardner Heist Investigation In The Media (Part VI)

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The year 2014 was slow, nearly dormant in terms of news coverage of the Gardner Heist.  It began with an unsigned January 19 th editorial in which the Boston Globe counseled patience for a Gardner art recovery.  The Baltimore Museum’s "flea market Renoir" was making its way back home from where it had gone missing sixty three years earlier, in 1951.   Paysage Bords de Seine had just been ordered returned to the museum by a judge earlier in the month.  The editorial stated: “Last year, the FBI announced it had reached a breakthrough in its search for the missing Gardner paintings. That hasn't led to their discovery yet, but successful recoveries like the one in Baltimore show why there's still grounds for optimism.”  The editorial could have served as an opportunity for the FBI, in a letter to the editor, or in a request to be interviewed, or something, to restate their confidence, their commitment, their progress, their brand of optimism for a