HORAN: Turner told Boser that, once the FBI had him in custody, there was just one thing the agents wanted to know. Celtics assistant GM Mike Zarren travels to Italy to share player tracking techniques with soccer club Atalanta. Turner has steadfastly denied that he has cooperated with authorities in the Gardner case but The Boston Globe reported in 2016 that federal officials shaved seven years off of his 38-year sentence, a reduction that puts his release in 2025. The FBI claims Gentile tried to sell the paintings to an undercover FBI agent but the mobster denies any involvement. Their license was verified as active when we last . }Customer Service. Where was he? AMORE: I always start with "[Christ In The] Storm On The Sea Of Galilee," which is the one that's most commonly recognized by people. These are five hundred million dollars worth of art that's stolen. Beauchamp and Reissfelder met in 1973 while they were imprisoned at MCI-Norfolk. When George spoke with "Seinfeld" creator Larry David and said he had no chemistry with Swedberg and wondered why he had to work with her, David told him, "That's why.". I think that the day (George) died, the art was taken by those bums who killed him.. Skip to main content Home Memorials Cemeteries Famous Contribute Register Sign In Register Sign In Memorial updated successfully. KURKJIAN: What was your commonality? 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. ". George Reissfelder pictured in Netflix's This Is a Robbery "I wasn't anything involved in it. It in my mind represents so much of the city's respect for art and culture, its value of learning, and these sort of really richer ideas. EXCLUSIVE: Pictures of Marilyn Monroe's naked corpse were taken just hours after her death after a famous photographer gained access to the morgue by bribing guards with alcohol, new documentary . And you kind of have to think on your feet doing something like that. And after you pass by those two it seems like an exercise in futility, but I went through the other 11 pieces. 5: Son: George Reinsfelder Junior. In 1992, two years after the heist, his fingerprints were sent to the FBIs lab, along with those of several others, to determine if they could be found on items taken from the crime scene. Because one of his accomplices from TRC had brought along a hand grenade for the Loomis-Fargo vault heist, David Turner had also received a long sentence. And that's what happened. I will go after your-- I'll go after your family." She claims to have seen Manet's "Chez Tortoni" hanging in a "froufrou frame" in her. 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. Robert L Reissfelder, West Roxbury, MA holds a Building Licenses, Construction Supervisor license and 1 other license according to the Massachusetts license board. (Photo by Joseph Runci/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) In 2015, the organization revealed the names of its primary suspects: George Reissfelder and Leonard DiMuzio, two associates of the late mobster Carmello Merlino. You know, you gravitate to the people that you know. And it's not. Reissfelder said his family is anguished by the revelations and want the art to be returned. Although Kerry would use the case to promote his then-budding political career, Reissfelder did not use it to his advantage, returning to his bad habits of using cocaine and hanging out with criminal contacts, both of which were in full supply at Merlinos garage. The other wasnt. In the interview with. Why? 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. And when I looked at it, I knew. HORAN: The type of equipment that could help a guy waiting outside of a museum while its being robbed. DAVID TURNER: Um, you know, actually I had nothing to do with the robbery. TURNER: Thirty-eight-and-a-half years. Its just not clear, based on that different drivers license number on the receipt, that it was actually David Turner. 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No one would be happy about it, but you woulda thought, you know, once they had arrested us and, you know, the paintings didn't show up, you know, they would have gotten reasonable with us. RODOLICO: In 1980, assistant district attorneys Roanne Sragow and John Kerry yes, that John Kerry took on Reissfelders claims of innocence. 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. like follow. 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. Here he is in the 1986 documentary about wrongfully imprisoned men, "Exonerated: The Wrong Man.". Access is free so discover George Reinsfelder Junior's story today. Witnesses told investigators they saw Reissfelder at the crime scene. He is running on the 2018 Republican ticket for the office of Secretary of State in Massachusetts. BEAUCHAMP:Yeah, a couple of times we had Mexican standoffs, and the only reason that he backed down was both times I had a .357 and he only had a small .22 or .25 automatic. This is the story of David Turner and George Reissfelder, two men who prove that the criminal life is an equalizing one that erases distinctions like where you came from and where you could have gone. Swap that painting for freedom. HORAN: In one scene, Santos walks behind Reissfelder, her head down. You don't even have to be a diehard Seinfeld fan to know how George's fiancee Susan died in season seven: Licking the toxic glue on the cheap wedding envelopes George had purchased . ROBERT BEAUCHAMP: OK, I'm Robert Beauchamp. Maybe a couple more years down the line having a couple of little ones running around. I would have been the first. George Reissfelder was found dead in his apartment of cocaine poisoning after Merlino told firefighters that he hadnt heard from his friend in several days. It was visceral. Digital content was produced in partnership with The ARTery, WBUR's arts and culture team. George A. Reissfelder was found dead of an apparent drug overdose 51 weeks after the heist, on March 11, 1991, in his Quincy apartment. KURKJIAN: This was a ploy by him in order to later tell the investigators, Oh, I was in Florida at the time.. But, Steve says, there is one for two days after March 20. And so, what role would he have played? WITNESS: Anthony M. Amore, left, director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, with Richard Reissfelder, who says his brother had the stolen Manet. RODOLICO: Some time after Reissfelders death, his brother, Richard Reissfelder, who has also since died, reached out to Anthony Amore. SANTOS: He was frothing at the mouth about this thing. 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 . The publicity was mostly because of the legal defense work of John F. Kerry, and Kerrys law partner. HORAN: Just not places like TRC Auto Electric. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. In 2014, the FBI identified the culprits present at the museum as George Reissfelder and Lenny DiMuzio, who both died within a year of the notorious robbery. Im truly struck by how earnest he and his entire family have been, Amore said. Reissfelder did not stick with the Inmate #6875309 look after a couple of weeks from his release from prison as the photo (far right) taken six years before the Gardner Heist shows. BOSER: I do believe that David Turner is going to go down in history alongside the Boston Strangler, alongside Whitey Bulger, as one of the most notorious criminals to come out of Boston. All this negative publicity. Richard Reissfelder appears with Gardner museum director of security Anthony Amore, who holds up a picture of one of the stolen paintings. I hope to hear from you soon. I remember his reaction the first time I asked him to look at the missing art and witnessed firsthand how genuine his reaction was to Chez Tortoni. . It's just rumor and conjecture, you know. His body was found after reputed New England Mob figure and Dorchester drug lord Carmello Merlino told firefighters that he had not heard from his friend in several days. Im convinced they had my brother killed with an overdose of cocaine, said Reissfelder, who was notified of his brothers passing by Merlino. The other wasnt. But the celebratory scene from his release date on Aug. 30, 1982, did not last for Reissfelder, then 42. Michael Blanding was a staff writer at Boston Magazine when he first received a letter from Gardner heist suspect, David Turner, who had been ensnared in the February 1999 sting on TRC Auto Electric. Reissfelder left prison a desperate man and slid back into the underworld. He wouldn't let me go out on the weekends to go to drill, because, obviously, when I went to work, I was gonna screw around with somebody. Immediate Family Johanna Ronellenfitsch wife Ignatius John Rollenfitch son Barbara A Leuthner daughter Vincent Ronellenfitsch son Cecelia Ronellenfitsch daughter Clara Ronellenfitsch daughter Agatha Ronellenfitsch daughter Johanna Ronellenfitsch daughter Marie Ronellenfitsch daughter Maria Theresia Ronellenfitsch mother Georg Joseph Ronellenfitsch For seven years, I was . I really did well on the test, and I went and took the flight physical, and I was going to be going to flight school. This episode was adapted for the web by Amy Gorel. There are no credit card receipts for the day of the heist, March 18. And about 5'10", maybe 170, -75 pounds. He was sentenced to life in prison and incarcerated at the old Walpole state prison, where he maintained his innocence. HORAN: Wow. HORAN: Robert Sikellis says he believes that David Turner was behind the killing. HORAN: So someone returned a car that had been rented in David Turners name. You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. And he grabbed me by the hair, and then-- and then-- and of course, I was stupid. 4,708 executive movements have been recorded in the last 12 months. Don't talk. RODOLICO: Sikelliss break came in 1992, when a longtime friend and sometime accomplice of David Turners was swept up in the drug-trafficking sting on TRC Auto Electric. Donna told me, I distinctly recall that painting the man in the high hat, Reissfelder said. And he had never seen it, and had never seen "The Concert." I married a beautiful young girl. JANICE SANTOS: OK. 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. Ive seen it. And when he got out, he was denied compensation for his wrongful conviction. He was on the lam for three years until he was caught passing a bad check in Florida. The museum and the FBI have responded skeptically to Beauchamps claims about the art. Hood & Sons in Charlestown, Mass. During a one-day furlough in 1974, Reissfelder fled the state. Bowl haircut. And suddenly, they just took off a bunch of years. What attracted you to him? According to multiple sources, the team's CFO was seen attending several Celtics games with his family. In 2013, when federal officials held a press conference to announce what they regarded as a break in the case, Amore spoke as the Gardner Museums representative. When law enforcement couldnt locate Reissfelder, a local mobster told the cops to try his residence again. And I noticed that the release date had changed. 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. HORAN: And this is George Reissfelder, remembering his worst hard time. RODOLICO: From WBUR Boston and The Boston Globe, this is Last Seen. Rare Pope Creek Poppy Jasper Rough Slab!Gorgeous RARE Top Pope CreekPoppy Jasper Rough Slab ! Some of Turners letters, Blanding says, offered tantalizing hints about the Gardner heist and other unsolved crimes. I stood up at the cell door, looked out at the cell block it was quiet. He was very upset. KELLY HORAN: This is the story of two men. HORAN: Charlie Pappas had been shot twice in the mouth. Hear Michael Blanding read from one of them, The Sting, here: Former Assistant Massachusetts Attorney General. He was represented by U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry, who was then a private attorney, and attorney Roanne Sragow Licht, who is now a District Court judge. After Kerry and Sragow won him a new trial, then-Suffolk County District Attorney Newman Flanagan decided against re-trying the case against Reissfelder. 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. HORAN: Ulrich Boser says that while David Turner had to deny involvement in the Gardner heist, he seemed unable to keep from insinuating that he knew something about it. At trial, Merlino argued that he was set up by the FBI because investigators believed the crime boss had access to the stolen Gardner art. And, um, when she unveiled these portraits to me, and she brought up one of the images the thief with the slimmer face I looked at it and said, "Wow, that's George Reissfelder." The target would be the true crime, artsy type., Let me know what you think. But yeah. Robert Sikellis says Turner was one of the coldest criminals hed ever met. View George Reinsfelder Junior's 1940 US census record to find family members, occupation details & more. And in my mind, you know, it was-- it was a form of bragging, right? It's a helicopter. There was a murder of a gay social worker who gave Turner and Pappas a ride home from Provincetown, and he turned up dead that night. Only after he was contacted by Amore in recent months and shown all 13 items taken from the museum did he recognize the Manet painting he now says his brother at one time displayed. She finally managed it in 1989. We never hear her voice. HORAN: As ever, suspicion clung to David Turner, but charges didnt. 10: Daughter: Irene Reinsfelder. Within 11 years, the former Jamaica Plain resident was found dead of cocaine poisoning in his Quincy apartment, in March 1991, according to police. He was very capable. Why wouldn't he be inside? Reissfelder is the first person to claim hes seen the stolen Manet since it was filched from the Gardners ground-floor Blue Room. This is the story of two men. The museum opened to the public in 1903, and Gardner continued to expand the collection and arrange it until she died in 1924. A UH1. The two robbers were George Reissfelder and Lenny DiMuzio, both of whom died within a year of the heist. Resides in Mashpee, MA. I never ever mentioned the Gardner. He was 51 and has never been formally connected to the theft. The other one was middle aged and beaten down and had done hard time for a murder he didnt commit. The publicity was mostly because of the legal defense work of John F. Kerry, and Kerrys law partner. August 24, 2022 8:00 am ET. And eventually Merlino decided on the Gardner. As a lawyer in the the early 1980s, Roanne Sragow worked with John F. Kerry (who would go on to become a U.S. senator, Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Secretary of State) to free George Reissfelder from prison on the basis that he had been wrongly identified and convicted at his criminal trial for murdering a security guard in 1966. One of them had options and from them, chose a life of crime. George Reissfelder In 2006, an inmate in prison for murder wrote Anthony Amore, the Gardner Director of Security, a letter. Came back negative. HORAN: A search of George Reissfelders apartment turned up a cache of stolen goods, including drugs and weapons. In 1990, two men stole 13 works of art valued at approximately $500 million dollars from a Boston Museum. He told Reissfelder and Turner that they should steal a piece of art as a sort of crime insurance. And I don't think he could have done it, but--. They were never able to pin Turner to the crime, however. I fought back. Reissfelder scuttled that dream. Merlino, 71, of Quincy, died in federal prison in 2005. HORAN: And before then he was saying that his brother hadn't done it, but it was seeing that painting that convinced him that his brother must have done it. RODOLICO: Way too much, George. The tests were inconclusive. Reissfelder and DiMuzio were known associates of the now deceased mobster Carmello Merlino. Now a disgraced ex-fed, Connolly is in federal prison for a racketeering and obstruction of justice convictions stemming from his relationship with James Whitey Bulger and others. I mean, if you knew who it was you could just look at it and tell them it was who it was. You have to be really planned and articulate. William Reissfelder is 58 years old and was born on 10/10/1963. Crime boss Carmello Merlino, who we met in the last episode, was hardly the last best suspect to come out of a crew of criminals based in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood. I said that wasn't the release date that was there before. HORAN: On March 11, 1991, almost the anniversary of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery, George Reissfelder died. Long narrow face. A poem a previous boyfriend had written threw him into a rage. So he offered Reissfelder, who still visited him in prison sometimes with David Turner in tow some advice. There are clues that seem to let him off the hook. Likely the most informed reporter in Boston on the citys rich organized crime history, Murphy was co-author of the New York Times best-seller Whitey Bulger: Americas Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice. In recent years, Murphy has spearheaded the coverage of the Gardner investigation for The Boston Globe with such articles as the most likely theories for the theft of the artwork; how federal investigators had cut seven years from one suspects long prison sentence to gain his cooperation in the case and how a long-ago Boston mob figure had passed on to the FBI a key tip about the whereabouts of the paintings in the late 1990s. Reissfelders late brother George made headlines in 1982 when he was freed from prison after serving 16 years for a murder he did not commit. 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. I said to myself, "This is real, and I just might be spending the rest of my life in here.". 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. REISSFELDER: I was fortunate. Convicted of killing a friend in Arlington 1971, Beauchamp started a relationship George Reissfelder while serving in prison. Robert Sikellis is the former assistant attorney general for Massachusetts who spent years in the 1990s trying to put David Turner behind bars for those crimes. Alexander . 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. He had kind of a Beatle haircut very straight hair. Thank you! Over the course of a correspondence that spanned several years, Turner proposed that Blanding write a book about his life. The car in from of the museum says guilty. 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. Amore also showed an image of the missing Manet to Reissfelders ex-wife, Donna. 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. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest updates, join our Facebook group to discuss the investigation and if you have a tip, theory or thought, we want to hear it. If Beauchamp had harbored any doubt at all about whether his old friend and lover had pulled off the Gardner heist, he didnt once he saw the police sketches of the suspects. BLANDING: When I was a staff writer at Boston Magazine, I received a letter from a prisoner. If it was because of some new federal sentencing guideline, you know, decision it would be detailed in the record. BOSER:At the heart of this case is a question mark: We don't know where the paintings are. 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 . The other had none, and defaulted to one. KURKJIAN: I went looking for documents. And I figured, "Well, he just got out of prison. After his release, George Reissfelder associated with Carmello Merlino, an organized crime boss and drug lord whom he met in prison. The feeling was that he was a very dangerous individual. SANTOS:I was 22 years old. Bill Reissfelder, Boston Celtics, Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President - RealGM I'm just saying the work of art looked exactly like George to the point where we had a police uniform photoshopped onto him, and you hold the two and he looks exactly like this composite work of art. His brother believes that Merlino. Guarente's wife claimed he gave two of the paintings to Connecticut mobster Robert Gentile, but in February 2021 Gentile seemed to deny any involvement with the heist. . 35: Daughter: Louise Reinsfelder. 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. I don't think he masterminded it, though. 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. Thats when it really dawned on me. At school in a suburb of Boston, Turner had been a standout three-season athlete. MURPHY: I mean, I think our story certainly suggested it was a possibility, because theres no public explanation as to why it was reduced. RODOLICO: Robert Beauchamp and George Reissfelder were lovers. . One of the Boston detectives was John Ridlon, the uncle Charles O. Pappas, another member of Merlinos crew. Turner, Merlino and Rossetti were convicted in the late 1990s -- and sentenced to long prison terms -- for conspiring to steal millions from the Loomis-Fargo vault outside of Boston, a scheme which had been arranged by federal authorities to gain information on the Gardner heist. The two young men had been inseparable for years. Who was he going to be friends with when he got out of jail? He couldn't watch me. 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. New lead: The apartment building in Quincy where one of the stolen paintings, a Manet, might have been seen. I know Richard and know he is trying to help me recover our art. Robert Beauchamp says the idea to steal paintings as crime insurance was his. The other had none, and defaulted to one. for 35 years before retiring. How do you defend yourself against that? RODOLICO: This is investigative reporter Michael Blanding. In 2010, Jeannine was ranked 15th place during the CN Canadian Women's Tour. In taking on the role at the Gardner, he also took on the responsibility of assisting the FBI in solving one of historys most bedeviling museum heists. However, the Celtics' Senior VP is conservative regarding his private life. What did he give? MURPHY: The FBI has said they believe the two thieves that actually went in are dead. It is still the most famous art crime in American history. He was serving a 47-year sentence for his role in a planned 1999 armored car depot heist in Easton. Reissfelder said he recognized his brothers appearance in the digital painting the Herald is calling Suspect One. Nicole C. Wolf, a medical illustrator and animator, prepared the image after weeks of input from one of the two Gardner watchmen who was on duty the night of the theft. The two men had their paths meet in the late '80s when they both were drawn into Merlino's cocaine business. His name was Charlie Pappas. This is David Turner, on a lousy phone line from prison, after his luck had run out. A day after top House Democrats released their $56.2 billion budget plan for next fiscal year, the branch on Thursday whisked to passage a $1.1 billion tax relief bill that also makes statutory changes to the state's tax cap law and rainy day fund. 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. A year later, Reissfelder and William Silky Sullivan of Charlestown were convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery during a $20,000 payroll holdup at the Railway Express Agency at South Station. At the time of his death, Bill Russell was married to Jeannine. HORAN: Now, David Turner has always said hed never cooperate with authorities investigating the Gardner heist. He'd been shot, if I remember, twice in the mouth, if memory serves. 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