But not before he shared a few poems about him written by a fellow inmate. Kerry and Sragow managed to win a new trial for Reissfelder in June 1981 based on the deathbed confession of his co-defendant, Sullivan. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was constructed under the guidance of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) to house her personal art collection. You could trade the paintings to, you know basically make a Hollywood film, right? HORAN: And this is George Reissfelder, remembering his worst hard time. Collection. A UH1. Amore reached out to that person, and after a long delay came the response: Yes, theyd seen it in the apartment. Barnicle also explores another South Shore connection: Reissfelder's sister-in-law, Donna Reissfelder. Let's just be clear, right. SHELLEY MURPHY: I was hearing some things about whether or not he might cooperate. I don't want to take any blame for the Gardner. Bowl haircut. Maria was adopted by another family many years ago, and has changed her name from Reissfelder. While maintaining confidentiality on the status of the criminal investigation, Amore has said publicly that he believes the heist was the work of a local criminal gang working with some measure of inside information. RODOLICO:In a letter dated Oct. 26, 2003, Turner proposes that Blanding write a book about his life. It was also being surveilled by a law enforcement operation that would take it down in 1991. Juliana Reifelder (geboren Wipfler) Son: Johann Georg Reifelder View the Record view all Immediate Family Juliana Reifelder wife Johannes George Reifelder son Johann Caspar Reifelder (Reisf. And so, the plan was for him to come out, move in with me. Back in 1992, Kerry, as a private attorney, had secured the early parole of a career criminal, George Reissfelder, who had pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a police officer in Florida . George Reissfelder pictured in Netflix's This Is a Robbery "I wasn't anything involved in it. Because I realized at that point-- I thought maybe they'd steal maybe up to five million dollars at the most, but when it turned out to be hundreds of millions, I said, "You know what type of investigation this is going to be compared to what it would have been?". Im Jack Rodolico. And about 5'10", maybe 170, -75 pounds. And I don't think he could have done it, but--. One of them was born lucky. How do you defend yourself against that? HORAN: David Turners rap sheet is both long and incomplete. Celtics assistant GM Mike Zarren travels to Italy to share player tracking techniques with soccer club Atalanta. He's in a tough position, right? Janice Santos was 22 years old and in the Army National Guard when she married George Reissfelder just two months after his release from prison in 1982. HORAN: But someone else could have. He doesn't have access to the paintings or he'd be out of prison. HORAN: Sikelliss first run at David Turner in the so-called Cheers robbery ended in an acquittal. BOSTON, MA - AUGUST 30: George Reissfelder waves to photographers as he arrives at Suffolk Superior Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 30, 1982. I saw that painting, Reissfelder said in an interview at the museum in the presence of the Gardners security chief, Anthony M. Amore, who is running the investigation. However, the Celtics' Senior VP is conservative regarding his private life. Easy. Beauchamp remained on the lam for a decade before being caught. RODOLICO: When we come back the other guy. Her divorce from Reissfelder was finally granted in 1990, the same year his name would be added to the list of men whose name has been attached to the Gardner heist. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. Beauchamp is just trying to extort money over a robbery and a dead body, Richard Reissfelder said. TYSONS CORNER, Va., Jan. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pangiam, a technology company defining the future of authentication and trusted movement, announced the . Last November the Patriot Ledger reported that a new book on the famed 1990 Gardner Museum heists implicated a Quincy resident, the late George Reissfelder, and media reports today have his. Well, I was married at one time to George Reissfelder. And then also represents this other side of the city that is rough, and dirty, and criminal, and we have this tension that rests at the center of it all. George A Reissfelder. The FBI claims Gentile tried to sell the paintings to an undercover FBI agent but the mobster denies any involvement. One of the places the FBI looked the longest was TRC Auto Electric in Dorchester just four miles from the estimable museum. The two men had their paths meet in the late '80s when they both were drawn into Merlino's cocaine business. Hood & Sons in Charlestown, Mass. RODOLICO: Robert Beauchamp and George Reissfelder were lovers. The publicity was mostly because of the legal defense work of John F. Kerry, and Kerrys law partner. Of all the men floated as possible suspects in the Gardner heist, no one is more of a dead ringer. Came back negative. His peers had voted him most unique and had given him the nickname Crackerjack. He had a broad, round face with wide, high cheekbones, a mop of light brown hair, and a grin that conveyed confidence and mischief. Don't talk. HORAN:Boser, who is a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank now, remains passionate about the Gardner mystery. Turner alleged entrapment by the FBI and twice appealed his conviction and lost. I still remember that very, very vividly. He was a cool customer, as they say. Just dont blame Beauchamp for the Gardner heist. HORAN: And after that? I've seen that painting in my brother's apartment." HORAN:And running through this story, Boser says, is a tale of two cities. Multiple law-enforcement sources here have told Breitbart News that the two career criminals who committed the historic crime were Kerry's client, George Reissfelder, and a local thug named Lenny DiMuzio. HORAN: But Janice Santos didnt become the states first female helicopter pilot. At the . When I see this I have the same reaction every time. display: none; I stood up at the cell door, looked out at the cell block it was quiet. He has written two books: Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Story of Notorious Art Heists (with reporter Tom Mashberg) in 2011 and The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds and Forgeries in the Art World in 2015. GEORGE REISSFELDER: One night I woke up about 12, 1 oclock in the morning, sweating, shaking. This is David Turner, on a lousy phone line from prison, after his luck had run out. BLANDING: I can show you one of these letters that I found where he says, "I'm happy to share this information about the Gardner Museum, as well as these other crimes that, that I have knowledge of." For seven years, I was . You make a note in your casebook, and go back to reading the witness statements and looking at the suspect sketches. RODOLICO: But the reason the Boston FBI was so interested in David Turner in the first place is because of other crimes he is alleged to have gotten away with. And if he did commit the robbery, and we don't know that for sure, right? But the celebratory scene from his release date on Aug. 30, 1982, did not last for Reissfelder, then 42. HORAN: And Im Kelly Horan. And after you pass by those two it seems like an exercise in futility, but I went through the other 11 pieces. In 2015, the organization revealed the names of its primary suspects: George Reissfelder and Leonard DiMuzio, two associates of the late mobster Carmello Merlino. Jeannine and Bill often played golf together according . I'm not saying George Reissfelder committed the heist. There was a robbery of the Bull & Finch pub, the Cheers you know, the pub that serves as the model for Cheers. Donna said she didn't know that the painting was a highly sought-after piece of art until years later when people from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum contacted her about the stolen collection. What if he couldnt give them the paintings, but could give them something useful? The feeling was that he was a very dangerous individual. Resides in Mashpee, MA. More than a decade before, he had drawn front-page headlines and network TV interviews when he was freed from prison after serving 16 years on the wrongful conviction of a murder charge. What attracted you to him? No one had let Reissfelder know. It remains the most valuable art crime in the nation's history. And you kind of have to think on your feet doing something like that. Stay up-to-date with important news developments, delivered right to your inbox. George Reissfelder In 2006, an inmate in prison for murder wrote Anthony Amore, the Gardner Director of Security, a letter. You can try, Kelly Horan, With Reporting By Jack Rodolico. Charlie Pappas, Leonard "Lenny" DiMuzio and George Reissfelder, who all worked at Merlino's garage, were also under suspicion. PRESS CONFERENCE: For the first time, we can say with a high degree of confidence, we've determined that in the years since the theft HORAN: Next time, we follow the stolen arts trail and tell you with a high degree of confidence what we think. Robert L Reissfelder Construction. It wasnt long after his release that Kerrys poster boy continued his criminal ways, quickly involving himself with a Mafia-controlled drug ring in Boston. Why wouldn't he be inside? He calls it the perfect vehicle to tell the story of Boston., It, in my mind, represents so much of the citys respect for art and culture, its value of learning, and the sort of really richer ideas, and then also represents, you know, this other side of the city that is rough, and dirty, and criminal, and we have this tension that, you know, rests at the center of it all.. MURPHY: The FBI has said they believe the two thieves that actually went in are dead. He would always be there for you. This one in particular really caught my attention because it mentioned the Gardner Museum robbery. Includes Address (2) See Results. MURPHY: I mean, I think our story certainly suggested it was a possibility, because theres no public explanation as to why it was reduced. KELLY HORAN: This is the story of two men. House Session Summary - Votes 150-3 To Send Senate $1.1B Tax Relief Bill State House News Service 4/13/23 4:53 PM. What was he cooperating on? I was 23 years old. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. The Senior VP of the Celtics is reserved regarding his personal life. KURKJIAN: What was your commonality? HORAN: In 2009, Anthony Amore, working with the Boston Herald newspaper, hired a forensic medical artist to redo the police sketches of the Gardner heist suspects. Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 7500 paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles, silver, ceramics, 3000 rare books, and 7000 archival objects-from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America. Boser typed notes as he listened to Turner on speaker phone. Robert Beauchamp, one of those contacts, has stated that Reissfelder and David Turner, another devotee of Merlinos garage, visited him often in Massachusetts state prison during this term and in the vaguest of terms told him they were planning a major robbery and asked how they might hide the valuables in the immediate aftermath. He was 51. One of them had options and from them, chose a life of crime. And seemed wholly uninterested and unconcerned with what was going on around him although he was not-- not-- not a dumb person, that's for sure. Drug deals, illegal weapons, armored car heists, murder. According to both men, Reissfelder immediately recognized the Manet painting, which depicts a formally dressed man sitting at a table outside the Tortoni cafe in Paris. The museum and the FBI have responded skeptically to Beauchamps claims about the art. And it's not. SANTOS: I said, "Yeah, it looks like George. And I told Anthony right off, but I don't-- the George that I knew it would never ever put on a cop uniform, so I don't-- I really don't know that he would have done this. The other wasnt. In September 2004, the Republican partisan group MoveOnForAmerica.org ran a Willie Horton-like ad criticizing Kerry, then the Democratic presidential nominee, for advocating for Reissfelders release. And when he saw it, he, I can only describe it as jumped in his chair and became very upset and told me I'm paraphrasing he said, "Anthony, I have to tell you. If it was because of some new federal sentencing guideline, you know, decision it would be detailed in the record. He had a-- he was very well built. HORAN: Yeah, so you hear the news and you think Carmello Merlino. Turner has denied repeatedly to reporters and in court that he had any knowledge of the heist, but he associated with known felons whose names had been tied to the crime including Robert Guarente, Carmello Merlino and Stephen Rossetti. George Reissfelder and Lenny DiMuzio are believed to have posed as police officers to gain access to the museum, tying up security guards and stealing 13 historic artworks by the likes of Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt van Rijn worth an estimated $500 million. Id love some day to own my own house. I always fought back. He was born Sept 3, 1923 in Boston, Mass. Reviews. That's not how it works. RODOLICO: Two thieves relying on an inside guy, wearing disguises, using handcuffs in the middle of the night at the end of a holiday weekend. But on that receipt is another drivers license number. BEAUCHAMP: When he came to see me after the Gardner robbery I just looked at him and shook my head and said, "Way too much, George." Charlie Pappas agreed to testify that he had been the getaway driver for Turner and his accomplice in that robbery. But let me be very clear. He was teary-eyed. He couldn't watch me. BOSER:My name is Ulrich Boser, and I'm the author of "The Gardner Heist." The tension between those who possess the Old Masters, and those who would risk everything to steal them. RODOLICO: Amore says Richard Reissfelder put him in touch with someone else whod also seen Manet's "Chez Tortoni" in George Reissfelders apartment. It is-- it is crazy how valuable they are. Our colleague Steve Kurkjian thinks he knows. Reissfelder scuttled that dream. He was employed as a milkman for H.P. One of the Boston detectives was John Ridlon, the uncle Charles O. Pappas, another member of Merlinos crew. The following year, her divorce would come through, and her ex-husband would join a cast of men named in connection to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery. In the interview with. Long narrow face. It is still the most famous art crime in American history. While they might be very different sports, NBA basketball and association football rely on statistics to make important decisions often enough to have some . Interesting side note, Carr reports: Reissfelder was free to commit the crime because his court-appointed lawyer, future secretary of State John Kerry, had his murder conviction overturned eight. You know, if you just look at the Vermeer per inch what you could buy with it. He was worried that the TRC gang was getting sloppy. There are no credit card receipts for the day of the heist, March 18. Court records indicate surveillance photographs captured Reissfelder and Merlino together at the drug kingpins Dorchester auto body shop, TRC Auto Electric Co., where a $1-million-a-year cocaine ring was run. His wife allegedly told the FBI in 2010 that her husband confessed he gave two of the paintings to alleged Connecticut mobster Robert Gentile, now in his eighties. The other had none, and defaulted to one. Access is free so discover George Reinsfelder's story today. And then there was a home invasion robbery that happened in 1990 where allegedly Turner and Pappas came and invaded the home of this couple, and made off with $130,000 in cash and jewelry. Jul 4, 1901 - Jun 1976 . Wolf was never shown an image of George Reissfelder or any other suspect while she was preparing her sketches with the former guard. The two men belonged to the crew of local criminal Carmello Merlino, who was first . The other wasnt. Led by the convicted criminal, Carmello Merlino, these men are among the top suspects of the Gardner art heist examined in This Is A Robbery. He believes the artwork has been stashed somewhere nearby. William Reissfelder SLED Premier Account Analyst with Granite Telecommunication North Attleboro, MA. William also answers to William J Reissselder, William J Reissfelder, William E Reissfelder and Bill Reissfelder, and perhaps a couple of other names. HORAN:And someone who moved between those worlds and settled in the latter is David Turner. Law enforcement was watching it closely, and would take it down in 1991. Were there many female helicopter pilots at the time in Massachusetts? Investigates Possible Suspects In America's Biggest Art Heist. And he had never seen it, and had never seen "The Concert." This is when David Turner, a free man, if not an innocent one, landed squarely on the radar of investigators for the Gardner robbery, too. George Albert Reissfelder Sr. (1901-1976) - Find a Grave Memorial Born in Boston,worked hard all his life.Married ,father of 5 children.Preceded in death by his wife Emma G(schnabel).We miss him. Just a warning: What youre about to hear is disturbing. A Quincy man eyed as a fresh suspect in the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist had one of the museums 13 stolen works of art in his possession shortly before his death in 1991, his younger brother told the Herald. RODOLICO: In 1973, Robert Beauchamp was sentenced to life in prison for murder. BLANDING: When I was a staff writer at Boston Magazine, I received a letter from a prisoner. Richard Reissfelder added that when he went to collect his brothers effects after learning of his death, the painting was nowhere to be seen in the apartment. This hits you anywhere, you're dead." And there are others that dont. HORAN: So someone returned a car that had been rented in David Turners name. Swap that painting for freedom. BEAUCHAMP: It was a homosexual relationship. During a one-day furlough in 1974, Reissfelder fled the state. But Anthony Amore, head of security for the museum, has said that based on Beauchamps statements the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys Office searched homes in Dedham; Lewiston, Maine; and Orrington, Maine, but each time, investigators came up empty. Maybe a couple more years down the line having a couple of little ones running around. He had that painting.". And that's it. Steal a painting. So that's how I saw it, that I knew that he initially was supposed to get out on one date. Resides in Quincy, MA. George Reissfelder was already seen as a celebrity when he started hanging out at Carmello Merlinos auto repair shop in Dorchester in the late 1980s. David A. Turner was considered a suspect in the Gardner heist early on in the investigation. Theyve asked nothing from me in return for all of the assistance they have provided, even in the face of very real personal pain.. He was very upset. 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