What is Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft?
[[File:ISGardnerMuseum.JPG|right|200px|thumb|The Gardner Museum]] On March 18, 1990, 13 paintings worth for a total of $500 million were stolen from the [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]] in [[Boston]]. In the early hours, guards admitted two men posing as police officers responding to a disturbance call. Once inside, the thieves tied up the guards and over the next hour committed the largest-value recorded theft of private property in history. Despite efforts by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) and multiple probes around the world, no arrests have been made and no works have been recovered.<ref name=abathstory>{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/10/guard-who-opened-door-robbers-notorious-gardner-museum-heist-under-suspicion-years-later/1TUiDyi1GbcnBgQT64oISP/story.html |title=Decades after the Gardner heist, police focus on guard |first=Stephen |last=Kurkjian |work=Boston Globe |date=March 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928031507/http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/03/10/guard-who-opened-door-robbers-notorious-gardner-museum-heist-under-suspicion-years-later/1TUiDyi1GbcnBgQT64oISP/story.html |archive-date=September 28, 2015 }}</ref> The museum initially offered a reward of $5 million for information leading to the art's recovery, but in 2017 this was temporarily doubled to $10 million, with an expiration date set to the end of the year. This was extended into 2018 following helpful tips from the public. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1990 in the United States]] [[Category:1990s crimes in the United States]] [[Category:1990s in Massachusetts]] [[Category:20th century in Boston]] <!--[[Category:Crime in Massachusetts]]--> [[Category:Robberies]] <!--[[Category:Unsolved crimes]]--> {{Multistub|history|US}}