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Transcript: Art Heist
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- August 30, 1997
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SUSAN STAMBERG, HOST: After more than seven years of fruitless searching,
some new light this week on what has been called the art heist of
the century. In March of 1990, thieves forced their way into the
old and graceful Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
They stole more than a dozen paintings and other artworks, valued
at more than $200 million. And then they vanished.
Now a journalist in Boston reports having seen one of the paintings.
And a convicted criminal says he has information that could lead
to their recovery.
From member station WBUR, Toni Randolph reports.
TONI RANDOLPH, REPORTER: The front page headline trumpeted: "We've
Seen It!" ...