00:00It was 1.24 in the morning on March 18th, 1990. Boston was asleep, but at the Isabella Stewart
00:11Gardner Museum, a buzzer rang at the side door. The night guard, Richard Abath, looked at the
00:18security monitor. Two men stood outside in the rain, dressed as Boston police officers.
00:24They said they were responding to a disturbance call. Abath broke the museum's most important
00:29rule. He opened the door. Within minutes, both guards were handcuffed, their mouths taped
00:35shut, and locked in the museum basement. The thieves now had the entire building to themselves,
00:39and they were in no hurry. But 81 minutes, they moved calmly through the dark galleries,
00:44as if they had all night. They knew exactly what they wanted. In the Dutch room, they lifted
00:49two enormous canvases off the wall and cut them straight out of their frames, a blade sliced
00:53through a 400-year-old Rembrandt. They took 13 works of art, Vermeer's the concert,
00:59one of only 34 known paintings by the Dutch master. The most valuable stolen painting in the world.
01:06Rembrandt's storm on the Sea of Galilee, his only seascape. A portrait by Manet, a bronze Chinese
01:13beaker older than the Roman Empire. The total value? Half a billion dollars. It remains the largest art
01:20heist in human history. When the morning guard arrived, he found the building silent and a basement
01:26door locked from the outside. Upstairs, the walls told the story. Empty frames, slashed canvases,
01:33shards of glass glittering across the marble floor. The FBI joined the investigation within days.
01:38Fingerprints were lifted. Theories multiplied. Was it Boston's Irish mob stealing masterpieces to trade
01:44for shorter prison sentences? Was it a local career criminal named Bobby Donati, who some investigators
01:49believe planned the entire job? In 2013, the FBI announced it knew the identities of the thieves.
01:55But no names were ever made public. No arrests were ever made. And not a single painting has ever
02:01resurfaced. Not in a raid. Not at an auction. Not anywhere. Today, the empty frames still hang in the
02:07Gardner Museum. Exactly where the paintings once were. Waiting by the museum's own solemn vow for the day
02:14the art comes home. A $10 million reward waits for anyone who can bring them back. 36 years later,
02:20the question remains. Who were the two men at the door that night? And where somewhere in this world
02:25are 13 masterpieces still hiding?
