Last Seen

Last Seen

A collection of mysteries about unexpected people, places and things that have all gone missing.

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July 16, 2018 3 mins

A look into the largest unsolved art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. "Last Seen" begins Sept. 17.

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In 1990, two thieves stole 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. We take a closer look at what happened that night.

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September 24, 2018 33 mins

On the night of the heist, security guard Rick Abath made the critical mistake of letting the thieves into the museum. In this episode, we ask if it was indeed a mistake.

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October 1, 2018 37 mins

Was the heist planned in the belly of Boston's criminal underworld operating out of a Dorchester auto body shop?

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October 8, 2018 40 mins

Were George Reissfelder and David Turner involved in the Gardner heist?

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October 15, 2018 33 mins

We trace the art's possible path from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia.

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October 22, 2018 32 mins

This is a story about how to plot an art recovery, and then blow it entirely.

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October 29, 2018 36 mins

Was the world's greatest art thief the inspiration, or actually the mastermind, of the Gardner heist?

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November 5, 2018 43 mins

After a parallel heist gone wrong, did Brian McDevitt succeed at the Gardner Museum?

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November 12, 2018 38 mins

We follow a mobster's tip to excavate a lot in Orlando.

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November 19, 2018 60 mins

A behind-the-scenes conversation about how we investigated the most sensational unsolved art heist in history.

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WBUR’s popular true-crime podcast returns, with mysterious tales about people, places, ashes, planets, endangered species, feelings and much more.

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January 19, 2022 1 min

The new season, coming out Feb. 1, has 10 new true-crime mysteries that you don’t want to miss.

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January 31, 2022 36 mins

In 1964, Jack Murphy, or "Murph the Surf," pulled off the biggest jewel heist in New York City history only to be caught 48 hours later.

Amory Sivertson traces the enigmatic life of this folk hero and examines why men like him continue to be idolized.

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January 31, 2022 37 mins

Freeports are the most expensive and secretive warehouses in the world, which now hide some of the world’s cultural treasures from the public eye.

Join Ben Brock Johnson as he traces the path of one lost Modigliani painting, "Seated Man with a Cane," and attempts to catch a glimpse inside these high-tech storage dungeons.

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February 8, 2022 35 mins

Every school kid learns that there are exactly eight planets in our solar system. But what if we told you there might be a ninth? A world that may be six times the size of Earth and take 12,000 years to orbit the Sun. The only thing is, while some scientists are convinced Planet Nine exists, no one has seen it. Yet.

Science journalist and WBUR producer Dean Russell (Endless Thread) traces the lives of two astronomers, separated by...

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February 14, 2022 43 mins

In 1960, dubbed "The Year Of Africa", a pair of bold leaders fanned the flames of hope for a brighter future in the Belgian colony of Congo. But by the following year, that hope had been dashed by outside forces.

Using traditional griot storytelling, writer Brenton Zola transports us to a turning point in Congo's path to independence, and remembers the future that almost was.

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February 22, 2022 38 mins

When three friends went on a rum-fueled rampage one night deep in the Nevada desert, they never expected the trouble they would find themselves in a week later.

The men broke into a remote unit of Death Valley National Park known as Devil's Hole — a mysterious flooded cave that happens to be home to the one of the rarest fish on Earth, and one that's critically endangered too.

This episode, based on Paige Blankenbuehler's High Co...

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March 1, 2022 46 mins

Spain has one of the highest number of forced disappearances in the world, second only to Cambodia. During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and General Francisco Franco's dictatorship, fascist troops killed tens of thousands of people and threw them into mass graves.

For decades, few people knew this — and no one in Spain talked about it. But in the year 2000, a man in the middle of an identity crisis began digging into his famil...

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March 8, 2022 34 mins

When artist Alison Byrnes opened a package she had mailed to herself two years earlier, she was expecting to find a sealed box of her prints - but that's not what was inside.

The United States Postal Service had made a rather serious mistake. Instead of artist prints, USPS delivered a little blue urn -- containing the ashes of a total stranger.

Attempts at finding the family of the deceased failed, and the cremated remains of Jen...

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