In this episode, we introduce the possibility of Irish involvement in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, discussing the IRA, a British heiress turned bomb maker, and the infamous Whitey Bulger.
We also circle back to Italian mobsters in the Boston crime underworld, where we end our tale, from golden boy mobsters to cocaine rings in auto body shops where stolen art was stashed. Thanks for listening!
“Gangsters and gods do not speak, they nod their heads and all is done” - Mythologies, Roland Barthes
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Some references for this episode:
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft, Ulrich Boser
This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
The Gardner Heist, Ulrich Boser
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist, Stephen Kurkjian
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell
https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/03/29/meet-the-suspects-mobster-bobby-donati/
https://www.bostonherald.com/2008/04/26/meet-the-suspects-carmello-merlino/
https://www.essentialvermeer.com/fakes_thefts_school_of_delft_lost_sp/vermeer_theft_04.html
https://youtu.be/4BkzRu4Yuv8?si=kpkjKvgSH_lDggLu
https://www.wbur.org/lastseen/2018/10/15/bobby-guarente-key-to-gardern-heist
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/arts/charles-hill-dead.html
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/charles-hill-art-detective-dead-the-scream-1234584315/