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...Thomas Capano. After Capano was arrested, Faltermayer staked out O'Friel's pub, unofficial headquarters of the hunt for Fahey--or her murderer. For Faltermayer, detective stories are becoming familiar territory. She reported on a 1977 Philadelphia slaying and on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Says she: "I feel as if I've taken a crash FBI course at Quantico...
...there is anyone who loses sleep over the Gardner heist, it is Dan Falzon. The kid who followed his father into the San Francisco police department, then took a pay cut to join the FBI. Boston, in 1988, was his first permanent assignment. He was 26, made $30,000 and walked to the FBI office from "a cockroach apartment" in Beacon Hill. In his first big case, he laid the groundwork that led to the arrest of a man on charges related to drugs, an attempted jailbreak and the theft of the Mead paintings. Falzon had bagged Myles Connor...
Four months later came the Gardner heist, and Falzon got the case. "At the time, everybody thought this was something maybe Myles had orchestrated" from prison. "He was one of the first people we looked at, and that's been going on ever since...
...husband was a successful businessman, and her father left her an inheritance. With money to burn, Gardner began making forays to Europe in the 1880s to "acquire the best." Her haul included 290 paintings, 280 pieces of sculpture, 460 pieces of furniture and much, much more. It is fitting that the centerpiece of her collection was Rape of Europa, because Gardner had her way with the Continent in much the same way that thieves would one day have their way with her collection. With this, she built a temple of finery, personally designing a 15th century Venetian-style palace featuring...
...loved Isabella Stewart Gardner, and women hated her. "Effervescent, exuberant, reckless, witty, she did whatever she pleased," says the museum's 116-page guidebook. "It was Mrs. Gardner's rule to select and acquire the best. If at a polo game, she would be escorted to her seat by the best player of the day...and naturally the best dancer in society was pretty regularly her Cotillion partner... Such victories the ladies could not forgive...