History's Greatest Mysteries

Sky History 2 HD

5:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Thursday 24 September

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In a perfectly planned robbery, thieves stole half a billion dollars in masterpieces from the Gardner Museum in Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist is easily the biggest art theft in history. It occurred on March 18, 1990, when two bogus police officers broke into the museum and took 13 works worth $500million. Three decades after the brazen heist, an exhaustive search has failed to recover the stolen goods