FBI turns up heat in investigation of 1990 Boston art Heist

BOSTON,  Mar 20:  The FBI believes it has identified the thieves who stole 13 artworks from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 in the costliest art theft in US history and asked for anyone who had seen the paintings to contact the bureau. On the 23rd anniversary of the theft, which stands as one of the most prominent unsolved crimes in modern Boston, officials said that their top priority was recovering the 500 million dollars in missing art, which includes Rembrandt’s “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” and  Edouard Manet’s “Chez Tortoni.” (agencies)