Former FBI agent publishes book identifying suspects in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist
The 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, valued at over $500 million, remains the largest unsolved art heist in history. Former FBI agent Geoff Kelly, who led the investigation for over two decades, has written a book publicly identifying the men he believes were responsible and detailing how the stolen works moved through criminal networks. The FBI stated in 2013 that it knew who was responsible but declined to name them publicly.
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2 outlets covered it, splitting into 2 framing camps across 1 bias group.
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The spectrum · how 2 outlets placed this story
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PBS NewsHour
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Both outlets ran nearly identical AP wire copy with no divergence in framing; PBS added an internal link to a related story on a freed suspect while AP promoted its own sourcing.
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Coverage clusters in the center and international press. Here is each take as it stands.
Center & international coverage
“Inside the world's largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum”
“What to know about the world's largest art heist from a Boston museum”
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