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Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 4 1. BOSER: “My name is Ulrich Boser, and I'm the author of "The Gardner Heist." My book argued that David Turner and George Reissfelder were the individuals who robbed the museum.” To say that his book “ argued” Turner and Reissfedler were the thieves is an overstatement:    “If Turner was involved, George Reissfelder was probably his main accomplice, the shorter thief.” Boser’s book, The Gardner Heist, page 199. Somehow book reviewers missed this essential point of Boers’s book. None I found online referenced Turner or Reissfedler. Publisher’s Weekley wrote: “After the death of a legendary independent fine arts claims adjuster, Harold Smith, who was haunted by the Gardner robbery. Boser carried on Smith’s work, pursuing leads as varied as James “Whitey” Bulger’s Boston mob and the IRA.” https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-145183-6 And around the same time in 2018 Boser said on a different podcast  Emp
Factual Errors in Last Seen Podcast Episode 2 1. Opening, HORAN: “Imagine all the mistakes you’ve ever made. Now imagine that just one of them, one lapse in judgment in one millisecond in time, hung over you for all of your days to come.” There was not one mistake or lapse of judgement made by Abath. On the contrary, there were numerous lapses in judgement: “1. Letting thieves or police into the museum at all. 2. not pressing the silent alarm or calling the police, 3. stepping away from the desk where the alarm and telephone were located, 4. failing to take note that there was no police car in view on the outside video monitor, 5. not authenticating the uniforms of the thieves, which were not real Boston police uniforms, or noticing they were not armed, like actual police. 6. Calling the other guard down to the security station without giving him a head’s up as to the reason. We have only Abath's account of what happened during the time he let the thieves in until he