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College tie-dye on. i did have the gardener security shirt on, but it was over my tie dye and i said okay, i know how this looks. it looks like i put these guard clothes on over my street clothes. >> here, rick makes another grave mistake. he steps away from the security desk and away from the panic button. his only way to contact the outside world. his only way to prevent what was about to happen. so i came out from behind the desk and i gave him my driver's license and i gave him my security id and i think i was kind of sarcastic about it. i really work here. and he said up against the wall....

Their pants and coats and badges and looked like policemen and buzzed them into the museum. and one of them came right over to my desk. and one of them kind of stood in the outcove right there, looking around. it seemed particularly odd to me. and he came up to me and the one guy, they asked me if i was alone. i said no, my parter in was off doing a round. i said get him down here. i called him on the radio. >> within seconds, rick's partner joined him at the security desk. >> the cop that was dealing with me turned to me and said don't i know you? can't i recognize you? i think there's a warr...

Are two raphaels, small and portable. why wouldn't you take those? it's a great mystery to the theft. >> another great mystery is this painting by edward manet. the oil painting was taken from the blue room on the first floor. >> it hung right below manet's portrait of his mother. it was about 8 by 10 and it was in a gold, guilded frame and it was here. >> even though motion detectors picked up the thooef's trail by the instance on the first floor and all throughout the second floor, there are no records of anyone entering the blue room. rick abbot says in the time he worked at the museum, the...

Gone. there was no trace of the thieves. authorities got an idea of what the bad guys looked like from the two night watchmen, the only ones to see the thieves up close. but it all happened so fast. they were tied up and blindfolded within minutes. watchman rick abbot gave this description of the guards to a sketch artist. >> the guy who was dealing with me was kind of taller and skinny and was wearing his gold-framed, like, round glasses, if i remember correctly and he had a mustache. and i remember before he arrested me, it looked really greasy. i was thinking he was using some funky kind ...

Very dramatically said gentlemen, this is a robbery. you know, just do what we say and you won't get hurt. and i said we don't get paid enough to get hurt. i kind of diffused the situation a little bit. >> rick abbot laughs about it now, but as soon as he was tied up by the two thieves, he realized how vulnerable he really was. >> i was panicking. i didn't realize i was panicking. but i was completely panicking. >> the thieves lead rick and his partner down to the basement to different areas. rick itaken to the boiler room and cuffed to an electrical box. his eyes and mouth were duct taped and...