Robert Bobby Donati.
Robert Bobby Donati was a small-time Revere businessman whose gambling debts led him to become a white-collar criminal and mob wannabe. His is a name often heard as one of the two thieves who pulled off the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist in 1990. He would have been around 50 years old at that time.
By 2013, the FBI asserted that the two men who were responsible for the theft were dead. But officials declined to identify the men or suggest what their motive might have been. The idea that Donati was one of those men began to gain credibility thanks to the word of former associates Myles Connor and Vincent Ferrara. This was in large part through two books: my book Master Thieves and Connor’s memoir The Art of The Heist. Both detail how getting Connor and Ferrara out of jail may have been the motive for the robbery.
Netflix s This Is a Robbery director reveals more mysteries, theories about Gardner art heist
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When you think of the “biggest art heist in the world,” your mind likely fills with romantic images of slinky cat burglars, Ocean’s Eleven schemers in three-piece suits or Tom Cruise dropping down from a glass ceiling. In all likelihood, you did not immediately think of seedy car repair shops and a bunch of mafia guys named Bobby.
But that’s the portrait painted by “This Is a Robbery,” Netflix’s wildly engaging four-part docuseries hitting the platform Wednesday. With a new true crime doc dropping seemingly every day, the genre’s a dime a dozen right now. But both novices and experts will find much to enjoy in this gripping retelling of the Isabella Stewart Gardner robbery in which 13 works of art were lifted on March 18, 1990 by a pair of mystery men dressed as cops.
Runtime: 53 Minutes
One of the world’s most notorious art heists was carried out by two men in March 1990 when 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
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