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New details emerge in history's largest art heist
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By Alina Cho, CNN
(CNN) – It is the largest art heist in history.
For 20 years, investigators have been chasing down hundreds of leads. They've interviewed countless witnesses all over the world, and still the central questions remain: where is the art and who did it?
What happened on March 18th, 1990 at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? A a new portrait is now emerging about the famous heist, with some tantalizing details.
Investigators say at precisely 1:24 a.m., two men disguised as policemen knocked on the side door of the museum, saying they were called to look into a disturbance. The night watchman let them in.
Once inside, the thieves handcuffed both of the guards on duty, tied them up with duct tape and then, with free reign of the museum, they went to work.
What the pair took, didn't take, and how they did it, is as baffling to investigators as the crime itself.
"Certainly, they don't know a lot about art," says Geoffrey Kelly, special agent, FBI, Boston Division.
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