00:00Have you seen these paintings?
00:02They're worth half a billion dollars,
00:04and they disappeared 30 years ago.
00:07Whoever finds them will receive
00:11a $10 million reward.
00:14But let's go back to the beginning.
00:18Isabella Stewart got in the museum was an artist delight.
00:21Millions of dollars worth of artwork.
00:23Rembrandt, Degas, Vermeer.
00:25St. Paddy's Day, 1990.
00:27Two men dressed as police officers show up at the door.
00:30And they say very dramatically,
00:33Gentlemen, this is a robbery.
00:37There's no shortage of possible suspects.
00:40Boston was so wild west.
00:41The two frontrunners were the Italian mob,
00:43were the Irish mob.
00:44Hey, how you going?
00:45The mafia knew that having a stolen masterpiece
00:48is a get-out-of-jail-free card.
00:50The feds will deal with you.
00:52They'll let you out of jail.
00:54An easy, easy score, as they say on the street.
00:58There were 13 works taken.
01:01Most important is Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
01:03It's the only Rembrandt seascape in existence.
01:06This was huge, not just locally, but internationally.
01:09In Dublin, stolen art was used by the IRA
01:12as an international currency.
01:13In Boston, Whitey Bulger provided the IRA with weapons.
01:17The pain is to be in the Middle East.
01:18Japan.
01:19South America.
01:21What?
01:21It's mind-blowing.
01:25I've spent 25 years on this case.
01:28There's got to be a way to figure out where these paintings went.
01:33You could potentially get immunity.
01:35You could get $10 million.
01:36That's why this case is so confounding.
01:38There's a lot of deaths.
01:39Everybody who apparently did the robbery is whacked.
01:44Works of art connect to the community.
01:46Standing in front of that painting would be an unbelievable experience.
01:52When I see those frames,
01:55I feel that they are waiting for the work to come back.
02:01They're out there.
02:02Somebody stash them.
02:04Sometimes it's the next generation.
02:06Grandpa's dead.
02:07Look what we got.
02:08You know?
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