WCVB is reporting on the air and online that an MCI Norfolk inmate says the art stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in March 1990 is stashed in the walls of a safe house in Maine. The source of the story appears to be the inmate's attorney, though, and this is about the 73rd alleged solution in the case. None of the previous breaks have panned out, and quite a few of them also involved prison snitches. And gee, the anniversary of the crime is just a couple of weeks away. Still, if the FBI recovers the Rembrandt (right), the Vermeer and other masterworks taken, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars, it would be huge. As the museum's own web site still somewhat plaintively declares, there's a $5 million reward for information leading to the return of the artworks "in good condition."
UPDATE: Told ya so.
Image: Oil on canvas, inscribed on the rudder: Rembrant (sic). f::/1633, 161.7 x 129.8 cm, via Gardner Museum
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