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Got The Scoop On The Gardner Museum Art Heist? You Have 4 Days To Earn $10 Million

In 1990, two men stole 13 pieces of art from a Boston museum. They're worth half a billion dollars ... if you could sell them. On the other hand, the museum has a hefty reward for their whereabouts.
<em>Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee</em>, a 1633 painting by Rembrandt, was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

If you've got a burning secret about the 13 pieces of art missing from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the clock is ticking.

Share the details in the next four days, and you'll earn a cool $10 million.

Wait until 2018, and that reward will be slashed in half.

The 1990 theft of the masterpieces was the biggest-ever heist from an art museum and the largest property crime America has ever seen. Three Rembrandts, including his only known seascape. A

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