Video Reveals New Clues About Gardner Art Heist

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Published August 7, 2015 at 12:55 PM EDT

In this March 18, 1990 still image from surveillance video released by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Thursday, an unauthorized visitor walks inside the rear entrance of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Robbers stole more than a dozen works of art at the museum about 24 hours later. Twenty five years later, the artwork remains missing and no one has ever been charged in the heist. (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/U.S. Attorney's Office via AP Images)

Investigators have released never before seen video footage from the night before the largest art theft in history.

The footage shows a security guard at The Isabella Steward Gardner Museum admitting an unidentified man into the museum the night before the heist in March 1990. The FBI has been trying for 25 years to find more details to help solve the unsolved mystery.

Stephen Kurjkian is an award-winning journalist who covered the case for the Boston Globe. He also wrote about it in the book “Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist. He tells Here & Now’s Robin Young about the new footage and why it’s been taking the FBI so long to solve this case.

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Stephen Kurkjian, author of “Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled off The World’s Greatest Art Heist,” three time Pulitzer Prize winner and former investigative reporter for the Boston Globe. He tweets @kurkjian.

Video Reveals New Clues About Gardner Art Heist

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