The Isabella Steward Gardner Heist

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The Challenges faces by authorities in locating and missing and stolen works of art and documents. There are lots of challenges that authorities have to face when it comes to missing and stolen pieces of art and other important documents. There have been many cases of missing and stolen works that have been unsolved, they are very hard cases that have taken years to solve or years just to find the slightest clue. There are cases like the The Isabella Steward Gardner Heist that have been working on for years but still haven't been solved. The Isabella Steward Gardner Heist, in March 1990, there was a theft of a ,the Storm, a seascape with Jesus and the Apostles, and 12 other works, including a Vermeer and a Manet. This was big news then and

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