Episode 5: 'The Bobbys'

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Episode 5: 'The Bobbys'

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Oct 15, 2018

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We trace the art's possible path from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia.

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Oct 15, 2018

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It remains the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: 13 artworks stolen from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Twenty-eight years later, not a single piece in a haul worth half a billion dollars has surfaced. The art, and the thieves who made off with it, remain at large. With first-ever interviews, unprecedented access, and more than a year of investigative reporting, "Last Seen" takes us into the biggest unsolved art heist in history. A joint production from WBUR and The Boston Globe.

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Episode 5: 'The Bobbys'

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