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Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years Of Theories
In the passage Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories By Tom Mashburg, It talks about how 13 famous painting were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in March 1990. Some of the stolen paintings included, the Storm which was a seascape with Jesus and the Apostles, A Vermeer, and a Manet. The stolen works were valued at 500 million, making the robbery the largest art theft in American History. Tom Mashburg was a reporter for at The Boston Herald, consumed like many others, trying to find the art works. He wrote a front-page news article about the furtive unveiling for The Herald-with a headline that bellowed "We've Seen It!" and stood by for the happy ending that never came. FBI officials told told Tom that the chips,

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