Ripped from the Walls….

From Smithsonian Magazine, Ripped from the Walls (And the Headlines)….

If you like mysteries and cop shows like I do, you’ll be gripped by this article. It begins…

“Fifteen years after the greatest art theft in modern history the mystery may be unraveling. At 1:24 a.m. on March 18, 1990, as St. Patrick’s Day stragglers wobbled home for the night, a buzzer sounded inside the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. One of two hapless museum guards answered it, saw what he thought were two city policemen outside the Palace Road entrance, and opened the door on the biggest art theft in U.S. history.”