This is a comment posted to a Boston Phoenix March 24, 2009 interview of The Gardner Heist author Ulrich Boser by  Steve Keller. Keller. Keller was a security consultant for the Gardner Museum at the time of the robbery and his work in that role is describe in both Boser's work as well as Master Thieve's by Stephen Kurkjian  Some text bolded is by me for emphasis. Re: Interview: Ulrich Boser Regarding the question about whether the guard could have defeated the motion detectors and whether the guard could have gotten past it, I want to comment. I was the security consultant to the museum prior to the theft and had made recommendations for security improvements which the museum intended to correct in an upcoming renovation that subsequently did not occur due to the theft. I was called in to talk to the FBI briefly (in spite of the fact that they were not at all interested in talking to me). My firm consults with hundreds of museums, designs high tech security sys...

A Historical Examination of the Gardner Museum Heist’s Basement Crime Scene  Link to Part I The crime scene photos of the other guard, Randy Hestand taken by the Boston Police have never been released for public view, but his confinement has been more consistently and straightforwardly described all along. He was brought down, seated beside an immovable object (a century old sink), fastened to a lead post holding it up, with a second set of handcuffs, and then advised in reassuring tones that the best course of action for him was to remain calm and wait for help to arrive in the morning. The guard managed to persuade one of the thieves to loosen his handcuffs. The description of Hestand's confinement has frequently come to inaccurately describe the specific predicament of both guards in many published accounts. Since we have never seen the photos of the other guard, there is no basis of comparison.   A guard who worked at the Museum at the time...

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 tie...