- The 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner heist — 13 works now valued at about $500 million — remains unsolved and the museum still displays the empty gilded frames.
- A former FBI agent's new book names likely suspects and traces the artworks through criminal networks, noting several suspects later died under violent or suspicious circumstances.
- Thieves posed as police, seized security tapes (and an odd Napoleonic finial), and investigators say the paintings probably still exist but are extremely hard to sell — a lingering art-world mystery.
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