I'd never create a piece of art on par with the works I now guarded, but they sure made me want to try.' So rockin' and rollin' and whatnot Abath, even as a musician, still considered himself something of a visual artist too. Of his first impression of working at the Gardner Museum he writes that, 'being surrounded by so many masterpieces was both humbling and inspiring. In the latest version, a bit of a prequel with no new references to the Gardner heist from previous versions, Abath says that he was an art student for two semesters at the Maryland Institute of Art, in Baltimore, before heading up to Boston to attend Berklee School of Music. Whether he has gotten past the first chapter, or ever will, remains to be seen. Most recently, in March of 2019, Abath posted a third version of the first chapater of his book on the case, which he has been sharing with the press and or posting online since 2013. Who has ever had a say in the matter, tells a different story.īut then, his statements on the case have been few and infrequent, the first was not until 15 years after the heist, and the inconsistencies in his story are quite glaring and in some cases significant. Maybe it's the way he keeps saying he was handcuffed to an electrical box for seven hours when everyone else,

Is the only one who can keep his story straight.

When it comes to the Gardner Museum robbery, sometimes it seems like the guard who let the thieves in, Rick Abath, 'The Gardner heist Un-Investigation' on ApThe Many Inconsistencies in Rick Abath's Story

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