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Secrets of the Gardner Surveillance Video (The Indoor Camera) Part 2

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Link to Part 1  When  the Visitor first appears  inside we have the best view of him that appears on the entire tape.  His dramatic, first appearance is a challenge.  He seems to have come out of nowhere and looks as if he has been standing for there a while. There is no greeting or formalities shown. He has his notebook out of his pocket. It  already open and he looks to be thumbing through the pages.   This is hardly a magician's trick, but to accomplish this in three seconds or even four seconds as some might conclude from look solely at the time-stamp,  would take effort.      For comparison, at the  nine second mark  of the video we can see the older guard takes about three seconds to go from the entrance to situate himself at the counter nearest the entrance. The video switches from outdoors to indoors in three second intervals. And how is it that the guard's trip from the door to the counter is captured in its entirety while the Visitor’s transit is not re

Secrets of the Gardner Surveillance Video (The Indoor Camera) Part 1

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One of the least mysterious things about the “ Gardner Museum Surveillance Excerpt ,” as the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office dubbed it, is the individual who stars in it. Why did the head of the FBI’s Boston office Vincent Lisi , announce his retirement one week before its release in 2013?   It was j ust two years after the then head of the FBI Boston office Richard DesLauriers  retired.  In 2013 DeLauriers also announced his retirement   only two months after the last attempt to   engage the public on the Gardner Heist.  And that attempt was also   initiated by the Massachusetts U. S. Attorney’s Office , and not the FBI. Perhaps the Massachusetts U. S. Attorney's office hoped to duplicate the success from finding Whitey Bulger through crowdsourcing in 2011.  Crowdsourcing may work for finding people, but not inanimate objects like paintings and the FBI was only interested in finding paintings, not people.  The video seems more like raw footage than any kind of an “