The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist with Geoff Kelly

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist with Geoff Kelly

April 8, 2026 · 45 min · Episode 140

About this episode

Geoff Kelly discusses the unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist and shares insights from his book on the case.

The biggest art theft in history remains unsolved — but the former lead FBI agent on the case has some theories. That would be Geoff Kelly, author of the new book, Thirteen Perfect Fugitives: The True Story of the Mob, Murder, and the World's Largest Art Heist. He's here to tell us about what went down at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on the night of March 18, 1990.

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