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Sources:
- The entire Boston Globe paper from March 19, 1990.
- Amore, Anthony and Tom Mashberg. Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2011.
- Boser, Ulrich. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft. New York: Harper Collins, 2009. [currently on Kindle Unlimited]
- Boston PD report from heist from March 18, 1990.
- Dabilis, Andy and John Ellement. “$200m Gardner Museum Art Theft.” The Boston Globe (Boston, MA), March 19, 1990.
- FBI. “Historic Footage Connected to Gardner Museum Burglary Released, Public Assistance Sought.” From FBI.gov on August 6, 2015.
- Kurkjian, Stephen. Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist. New York: PublicAffairs, 2015.
- ——-. “10 Years Later, No Signs of a Real Break in the Gardner Museum Heist.” The Boston Globe (Boston, MA), March 18, 2000.
- Mashberg, Tom. “Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist.” The New York Times (New York, NY), March 18, 2024.
- ——-. “Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories.” The New York Times (New York, NY), Feb. 26, 2015.
- ——-. “Guard’s Moments Before the Theft Clouded in Intrigue.” The Boston Herald (Boston, MA), April 12, 2009.
- ——-. “Suspect’s brother: I saw that painting.” The Boston Herald (Boston, MA), March 15, 2009.
- ——-. “We’ve Seen It! Informant Shows Reporter Apparent Stolen Masterpiece.” The Boston Herald (Boston, MA), Mar. 16, 2008. (originally published in 1997)
- ——-. “Amore: A Shoe Leather Sleuth.” The Boston Herald (Boston, MA), March 16, 2008.
- ——-. Mashberg, Tom. “Stealing Beauty.” Vanity Fair (March, 1998): 214-219, 254-259.
- Murphy, Shelley. “On the 35th Anniversary of the Gardner Museum Heist, Retired FBI Agent Offers Theory on Whodunnit.” The Boston Globe (Boston, MA), March 18, 2025.
- ——-. “More than 30 years later, a tantalizing clue in the Gardner Museum art heist surfaces.” The Boston Globe (Boston, MA), November 30, 2021.
- Wittman, Robert. Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures. New York: Crown, 2010.
Other:
- Stephen Kurkjian’s personal website
- Last Seen: Season 1
- This Is a Robbery (Netflix)
- GardnerHeist.com
- IMDB page for Stolen (Harold J. Smith documentary)
- Buy Lindsay a “Coffee”
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-Lindsay
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