Video Shows Unauthorized Visitor One Night BeforeMuseum Theft

Investigators have just released old surveillance video of the Boston Isabella Stewart Gardnermuseum in 1990, just before it was robbed of $500 million in art. They're asking the public for help.

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An update now on a notoriousunsolved art heist from 1990. Late lastweek, federal investigators dug up anold surveillance video of the IsabellaStewart Gardner Museum in Boston.The film captures the scene beforethieves made off with $500 millionworth of Vermeer, Manet and a raft ofDegas masterworks. The footageshows an unauthorized visitor beingbuzzed in by a security guard. Thatvisitor enters through the same doorfrom which the thieves made off withthe loot the following night. They hadcut the priceless canvases out of theirframes. FBI investigators and theMassachusetts district attorney areasking the public to help identify theman. His shadowy face is visible twominutes into the video. The haul

remains the largest art theft in American history. A quarter-century after the burglary, the 13 emptyframes left in the museum that night are still on a display.

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