A bombshell plot twist announced by the FBI on Monday, claiming that they had uncovered the identity of the thieves behind an art heist from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum two decades ago, has set into motion the sudden denouement to one of the city's most enduring mysteries (the first being what that weird smell is on the Blue Line). The news came 23 years to the day after two men dressed as police officers pulled off one of the most brazen crimes in art history, absconding with 13 works of art, including rare works by Degas, Rembrandt, and Vermeer estimated at a value of over $500 million. Longtime followers of the case, one that has become woven into the city's folklore underbelly, may finally soon have the answers they've been waiting for.
So why does that make me, a Bostonian, a little uneasy?
You may recall that about a year and a half ago another one of the city's dangling plotlines was suddenly wrapped up with the capture of James Whitey Bulger, now on trial for his decades-long crime spree. (It's long been speculated that Bulger may have had information on the Gardner heist). Of course, the apprehension of notorious criminals is something we can all agree is generally a good thing, even in Boston, but it's starting to feel a little like they're wrapping up all the loose ends in the final season of “Boston: The Series” here awful quickly.
Wait, are we being cancelled?
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