Netflix's latest addition to its ever-growing true-crime collection, "This Is A Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist," centers around the infamous 1990 burglary at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Art collectively worth $500 million went missing that night.
Two people dressed in Boston police uniforms slipped into the museum in March 1990, tied up the guards on duty, and stole 13 pieces of art over a span of 83 minutes.
"This Is A Robbery," a four-part documentary series, breaks down the heist sequence-by-sequence through animations, recreations, and interviews with journalists, law enforcement, and eyewitnesses.
The docu-series never reveals who actually carried out the infamous robbery, as no one was every arrested for the crime, though several theories are laid out for viewers.
The filmmakers highlight a crew of seven people with ties to the Italian mob in Boston as possible perpetrators, theorizing that the heist was planned out by two men named Bobby Guarente and Bobby Donati and that two people from their crew, David Turner and George Reissfelder, may have went into the museum to steal the art for use as leverage in future legal or law enforcement battles.
The documentary also reports that the art may have changed hands a few years later and ended up with Bobby Gentile, a known associate of Guarente.
All this remains unconfirmed, and although the FBI announced in 2013 that they knew who was behind the heist, the federal agency didn't publicly reveal any names.
The art that was lost during the robbery, dubbed "the biggest art heist in the world" by the documentary, remains missing 31 years later.
While there is no conclusive information about what happened to the paintings and artifacts, the four-part series offers a few theories and anecdotes about people possibly having spotted it over the years.
One such anecdote in the documentary comes from Reissfelder's sister-in-law, Donna.
In the third episode, Donna said that a few months after the heist, she helped Reissfelder hang the Chez Tortoni by Manet, one of the missing art pieces, on his bedroom wall. Reissfelder died in 1991, according to the documentary.
Donna said she didn't know that the painting was a highly sought-after piece of art until years later when people from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum contacted her about the stolen collection.
In the same episode, journalist Stephen Kurkjian said that a surveillance camera from 1991 might have caught Turner leaving his car with an object that looked like a 12th-century vase that also went missing during the heist.
In the final scenes of the series, various journalists, law enforcement officials, and one former art thief theorize that the art might have been destroyed under pressure from all the scrutiny, been shipped outside the US, or stashed away.
But in the end, viewers don't really know what happened to the art or who took it — and the public may never know.