article_snippet: Rick Abath spent the next seven hours handcuffed to an electrical box alongside another guard, while the two men cut loose enormously valuable Old Masters from the two men frames, including works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet.
article_snippet: A security guard at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum stands outside the room from which most of the paintings were pilfered .
article_snippet: The thieves stole two Rembrandts .
article_snippet: Chez Tortoni, painted by Manet, shows a man wearing a top hat at a jaunty angle; it was one of the last paintings to be stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum . '
article_snippet: Dressed as cops': This FBI sketch shows a likeness of the two men, who have never been caught . '
article_snippet: Aside from two sketches of mustachioed men in police hats - one with glasses and one without - little detail has ever been given as to who the men may have been.
article_snippet: A petty Boston criminal, who had broken into the gallery before denies having anything to do with the heist, has since said A petty Boston criminal, who had broken into the gallery before denies having anything to do with the heist believes A petty Boston criminal, who had broken into the gallery before denies having anything to do with the heist boasts to criminal associates may have sparked the crime.
article_snippet: Louis Royce, who was a teenager in the 1980s and made it inside the gallery, told veteran crime reporter Stephen Kurkjian that A petty Boston criminal, who had broken into the gallery before denies having anything to do with the heist believes information A petty Boston criminal, who had broken into the gallery before denies having anything to do with the heist gave 'criminal associates' about the lax security may have focused the thieves' attention on Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum.
article_snippet: According to Kurkjian, whose recently-published book about the heist was previewed in the Washington Post, information he gave 'criminal associates' about the lax security passed up the chain in the criminal underworld until a Boston gangster decided to make the attempt.
highlights_snippet: thieves dressed as police, who tied him up in the basement then stole works by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet .
  