With Gardner Museum heist suspects dead, FBI focuses on finding art

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With Gardner Museum heist suspects dead, FBI focuses on finding art
By Rodrique Ngowe and William J. Kole
Associated Press Posted Aug. 7, 2015 at 2:40 pm Updated at 2:45 PM

BOSTON — With the two men suspected of robbing a museum of $500 million worth of artwork in 1990 now dead, investigators say they are focused on one thing — finding the missing masterpieces.

Peter Kowenhoven, the FBI's assistant special agent in charge in Boston, says "all our investigative efforts are being guided toward the recovery" of the 13 works stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, including paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas.

"The focus of the investigation for many years was: Who did this heist? And we have through the great investigative work identified who did this heist, and both those individuals are deceased," Kowenhoven told The Associated Press. "So now the focus of the investigation is the recovery of the art."

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On Thursday, authorities released grainy surveillance video from the eve of the heist and appealed anew to the public for help in finding the artworks.