Myles J. Connor
Although he was nowhere near the Isabella Stewart Gardner Musuem on the night of
the legendary $300 million art heist, notorious Boston-area art thief, Myles J. Connor, Jr. has made an official statement to FBI authorities, “I know emphatically and beyond any doubt who stole the art.”
In those interviews, Connor described how he and “flim-flam artist” Robert A. “Bobby” Donati cased the Italian palazzo-turned-museum during a visit in 1974.
“I took a walk through the place and saw what was there,” Connor said. Connor added
that Donati was intrigued by an item that was later stolen -the golden eagle atop a Napoleonic flagstaff. Connor joined briefly with a shady Randolph antiques dealer, William P. Youngsworth III, in offering to help “broker the return” of the art to baffled museum and
FBI officials.
Since then, Connor severed ties with Youngworth, whom he accuses of embezzling $2 million worth of art and antiques that Connor says he acquired legitimately during his colorful career.
He is a master at using art as a successful bargaining chip to secure immunity from prison, or extort secret ransoms from insurers. In 1975, he arranged the return of a Rembrandt for a lighter sentence. the Rembrandt was worth $1 million at the time. Connor's young friend, William Youngworth II, claims he stole the painting as a juvenile at the behest of Connor to help him with his legal
problems. Youngworth studied Karate with Connor.
Connor claimed he could get the Gardnerloot back, but wanted to get released from federal prison, as well as receive the cash reward. He denied stealing the works, but claims other criminals used his plan. Some investigators suspected him of masterminding the heist from behind bars, but Connor denies this.
Connor is known to have committed burglaries dressed as a police officer in the past.
He claims to have cased the museum back in 1974 with a friend named Bobby Donati. Donati (a mob button) and Connor discussed the possibility of a heist and knew it was an easy target. Connor claims he abandoned the idea and started concentrating on the Boston Museum of Fine Art across the street instead.
Connor claims Donati and a guy named David Houghton carried out the Gardner plan without his knowledge while he was locked up. Donati was found dead in a trunk with multiple stab wounds a year after the heist. Houghton died of cardiac arrest in 1992.
the legendary $300 million art heist, notorious Boston-area art thief, Myles J. Connor, Jr. has made an official statement to FBI authorities, “I know emphatically and beyond any doubt who stole the art.”
In those interviews, Connor described how he and “flim-flam artist” Robert A. “Bobby” Donati cased the Italian palazzo-turned-museum during a visit in 1974.
“I took a walk through the place and saw what was there,” Connor said. Connor added
that Donati was intrigued by an item that was later stolen -the golden eagle atop a Napoleonic flagstaff. Connor joined briefly with a shady Randolph antiques dealer, William P. Youngsworth III, in offering to help “broker the return” of the art to baffled museum and
FBI officials.
Since then, Connor severed ties with Youngworth, whom he accuses of embezzling $2 million worth of art and antiques that Connor says he acquired legitimately during his colorful career.
He is a master at using art as a successful bargaining chip to secure immunity from prison, or extort secret ransoms from insurers. In 1975, he arranged the return of a Rembrandt for a lighter sentence. the Rembrandt was worth $1 million at the time. Connor's young friend, William Youngworth II, claims he stole the painting as a juvenile at the behest of Connor to help him with his legal
problems. Youngworth studied Karate with Connor.
Connor claimed he could get the Gardnerloot back, but wanted to get released from federal prison, as well as receive the cash reward. He denied stealing the works, but claims other criminals used his plan. Some investigators suspected him of masterminding the heist from behind bars, but Connor denies this.
Connor is known to have committed burglaries dressed as a police officer in the past.
He claims to have cased the museum back in 1974 with a friend named Bobby Donati. Donati (a mob button) and Connor discussed the possibility of a heist and knew it was an easy target. Connor claims he abandoned the idea and started concentrating on the Boston Museum of Fine Art across the street instead.
Connor claims Donati and a guy named David Houghton carried out the Gardner plan without his knowledge while he was locked up. Donati was found dead in a trunk with multiple stab wounds a year after the heist. Houghton died of cardiac arrest in 1992.
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