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A photo in the new Netflix documentary “This Is a Robbery” (now streaming) shows convicted art thief and rock ’n’ roll singer Myles Connor Jr. holding a baby leopard in his lap while a parrot perches on his fingers. In voiceover, Connor’s lawyer, Martin Leppo, recalls first meeting Connor in Boston s Mattapan Square, where his client had a “baby cougar or mountain lion on a leash.”
“Myles was the man,” Leppo says.
That’s one anecdote director Colin Barnicle uses to illustrate Connor’s larger-than-life persona in the four-part documentary that chronicles the infamous – and still unsolved – March 18, 1990, heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Review: This is a Robbery presents colorful art world heist, little closure
Netflix 4-parter focuses on 1990 Boston museum robbery
Tom Long
Dear Art Museum Bigwigs: Don’t hire some scraggly stoner musician dude to head up your security at night.
That is the first and most solid lesson “This is a Robbery: The World’s Greatest Art Heist” offers up. If he or she’s charged with protecting 700 gazillion dollars worth of art, maybe a bit of security experience would be helpful.
Otherwise this four-part documentary about the theft of 13 works of art from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 is a rambling if entertaining search for the possible culprits in a major real-world whodunit. Suspects are both plentiful and colorful, if often short-lived, but concrete answers are elusive.
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A photo in the new Netflix documentary “This Is a Robbery” shows convicted art thief, rock ’n’ roll singer and Milton native Myles Connor Jr. holding a baby leopard in his lap while a parrot perches on his fingers. In voiceover, Connor’s lawyer, Martin Leppo, of Stoughton, recalls first meeting Connor in Mattapan Square, where his client had a “baby cougar or mountain lion on a leash.”
“Myles was the man,” Leppo says.
That’s one anecdote director Colin Barnicle uses to illustrate Connor’s larger-than-life persona in the four-part documentary that chronicles the infamous – and still unsolved – March 18, 1990, heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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