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...biggest and most confounding art heist in American history is 7 1/2 years old and juicier than ever. Organized crime, politics, greed, international intrigue and an execution-style hit all lie at the margins of the story. This one has everything but sex, and maybe even that--after all, the story is still unraveling. Each week brings private powwows among the players, new hopes, old frustrations and the same beating refrain...
...return for certain favors--including the $5 million reward. And one of those two cons, New England's most notorious art thief, who in 1974 brokered the return of a stolen Rembrandt, has told TIME that he once cased the Gardner with a man who, years later, arranged the heist without...
From the start, the heist has riveted and dumbfounded the art world, with fresh chapters unfolding as if the perps had serialized the tale. Last week came the most tantalizing clues so far in the 1990 theft of $300 million in artwork--including three Rembrandts, five Degas and a Vermeer--from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On Friday the Boston Herald published several black-and-white photographs that purported to show some of the stolen paintings. And the Herald said that in collaboration with ABC News, it had near certain proof that the Rembrandts in the photos were authentic...
...thieves' improbable connoisseurship set off speculation that the heist was a botched assignment ordered up by a wealthy collector. But no leads panned out. Then, in August, Herald reporter Tom Mashberg claimed he had been escorted to a dark warehouse and shown by flashlight Rembrandt's signature on Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The assignation was brokered by Youngworth, who then told ABC's Nightline he could deliver the stolen works in exchange for the museum's $5 million reward and the release of his pal Myles J. Connor Jr., a thief who was in prison for selling cocaine...
...down payment on a reward for promising to produce some of the stolen goods. He will probably try to negotiate down his sentence in exchange for more details. All things considered, that may be a small price to pay for figuring out who pulled off the biggest art heist in American history...