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Recounting a daring art heist

This Is A Robbery: The World’s Greatest Art Heist. photo © Netflix

Netflix’s new crime docuseries This Is A Robbery: The World’s Greatest Art Heist attempts to bring closure to one of the world’s most brazen crimes that has yet to be resolved until today.

On the night of March 18, 1990, in Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — home to artwork from a string of world-class artists — two men posing as law enforcement officers calmly entered the building and after binding up the security guards with duct tape, robbed the museum of millions of dollars of precious art.

Despite an exhausting search for the culprits and an attractive reward for leads, this continues to be a cold case. This criminal act has left more questions than answers due in part to what comes across as a sketchy…

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