# The THRILLING Mystery of the $500 Million Art Heist

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Published: 2026-07-06T11:00:01+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/georgiamariexo/episodes/The-THRILLING-Mystery-of-the-500-Million-Art-Heist-e3ln8kk
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Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men dressed as Boston police knocked on the door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, claimed they were responding to a disturbance, and were calmly let inside. Ninety‑one minutes later, the guards were tied up in the basement, thirteen masterpieces, including a Rembrandt seascape and a rare Vermeer, had been sliced from their frames, and more than $500 million in art had vanished into the night, leaving behind empty gold frames that still hang on the museum walls as taunting reminders of the biggest unsolved art heist in modern history.

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