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...countless scenarios and motives. An I.R.A. operative was gunned down shortly after bragging to an ex-FBI agent that he had information on a major art theft. A former museum employee had abruptly left his job, didn't pick up his last check and flunked a lie-detector test. Falzon and other agents chased dead-end leads like those around the world, including one to Japan, where a painting, purported to be the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, turned out to be a fake...
...impossible thing about the case," Falzon says, "is that there were so many possibilities. It was absolutely baffling." Were the perps art thieves or common thugs? Were the paintings stolen at the order of some mysterious Dr. No figure who likes to light a Cuban every night, pour a glass of cognac and repair to the cellar to admire his own private collection of hot masterpieces? Were they stolen by political factions to trade for their prisoners? Or was this just a score by local bad guys who thought they could unload the paintings to a fence, or use them...
...With all the people we know in and out of prison, we've never got a quality piece of information that indicates this is it, this is who did it," Falzon says. "We've had everybody and his brother say they know who did it, and none of it has led to anyone's going to prison or any of the art going back on the walls...
...Falzon, 36, loves listening to theories and opinions about the case, but they don't interest him nearly as much as facts do. That's how he manages to stay sane, he says. You get worked up about facts, not opinions. And every day, your job is to look for more--while taking the long view. "You know what? It's our firm belief that good things are going to happen. We know that Myles Connor sat on some paintings for 15 years, so this case is relatively young. We're only talking about seven years, and I'm working...
...Francisco, Dan Falzon said his policy is never to get too high or too low. "The key is just to keep working every day with the same vigor that you had on Day One." Hanging over his desk, to keep the vigor up, is his going-away present from the guys in Boston: a poster of Vermeer's The Concert, the most valuable piece in the biggest, most confounding art heist in American history...