Last Seen

Freeports are the most expensive and secretive warehouses in the world, which now hide some of the world’s cultural treasures from the public eye. Join Ben Brock Johnson as he traces the path of one lost Modigliani painting, "Seated Man with a Cane," and attempts to catch a glimpse inside these high-tech storage dungeons.

In 1964, Jack Murphy, or "Murph the Surf," pulled off the biggest jewel heist in New York City history only to be caught 48 hours later. Amory Sivertson traces the enigmatic life of this folk hero and examines why men like him continue to be idolized.

The new season, coming out Feb. 1, has 10 new true-crime mysteries that you don’t want to miss.

WBUR’s popular true-crime podcast returns, with mysterious tales about people, places, ashes, planets, endangered species, feelings and much more.

A behind-the-scenes conversation about how we investigated the most sensational unsolved art heist in history.

We follow a mobster's tip to excavate a lot in Orlando.

After a parallel heist gone wrong, did Brian McDevitt succeed at the Gardner Museum?

Was the world's greatest art thief the inspiration, or actually the mastermind, of the Gardner heist?

This is a story about how to plot an art recovery, and then blow it entirely.

We trace the art's possible path from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia.

Were George Reissfelder and David Turner involved in the Gardner heist?

Was the heist planned in the belly of Boston's criminal underworld operating out of a Dorchester auto body shop?

On the night of the heist, security guard Rick Abath made the critical mistake of letting the thieves into the museum. In this episode, we ask if it was indeed a mistake.

In 1990, two thieves stole 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We take a closer look at what happened that night.

A look into the largest unsolved art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. "Last Seen" begins Sept. 17.