Summary

The couple has stolen from three museums in a year, which is extremely impressive. Most thieves only take from museums once. In August 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, after working there as a handyman for eleven months. It was the only piece he would ever steal. In 1975, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, seventeen people collaborated to steal a painting by Rembrandt, and was led by the Massachusetts criminal Myles Connor Jr.. In 1985, two thieves in Mexico City cased the National Museum of Anthropology for fifty days over six months to steal two Mayan statuettes on Christmas day. In 2000, a group of international thieves collaborated on a job at the Swedish National Museum, taking two Renoirs and a Rembrandt.

Stealing the art, though, is generally considered to be the easier part of an art heist. The truly difficult...