Ex-Norfolk County DA: Client Might Know Boston Heist Suspect

One man may be able to identify the person wanted for the 1990 art heist at Boston’s Isabella Steward Gardner Museum.

George Burke, the former District Attorney for Norfolk County, says one of his clients may be of great value in relation to the continued efforts to identify the man responsible for a multi-million dollar art heist at Boston’s Gardner Museum back in 1990.

Burke, now a lawyer in Quincy, told the Patriot Ledger that a client of his believes the person shown in recently-released surveillance footage is an acquaintance who handled antiques in the past.

Last week, the FBI released never-before-seen footage of the wanted suspect inside the museum just 24 hours before the heist took place.

13 priceless pieces of art were stolen from the museum on March 18, 1990.