WASHINGTON — A video of a $500 million unsolved art robbery from a Boston Museum in 1990聽has surfaced as聽investigators seek the public’s help in identifying a聽man in the video.
The infamous art heist occurred at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, reports, where 13 works of art were stolen, including聽Johannes Vermeer’s “The Concert” and Rembrandt’s “Self Portrait.”
On March 18, 1990, a聽guard allowed entrance to two white men wearing police uniforms after they said they were responding to a “disturbance” report, the FBI says.
The video released by federal prosecutors shows a security guard letting an “unauthorized visitor” enter the museum聽24 hours before the robbery. The聽thieves took the surveillance footage from the evening of the robbery, investigators say.
Although the video is low-resolution, federal investigators are hopeful the public can help identify the unauthorized visitor who exited the car and entered the museum.
“With the public’s help, we may be able to develop new information that could lead to the recovery of these invaluable works of art,” says United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz.
There haven’t been any suspects named or charged since the robbery.
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