HORAN: David Turners 38-and-a-half-year prison sentence was suddenly seven years shorter. The other had none, and defaulted to one. HORAN: The type of equipment that could help a guy waiting outside of a museum while its being robbed. I said that wasn't the release date that was there before. Some believe that Merlino associates, including David Turner and Robert Guarente, were plotting the Gardner heist while the cocaine trafficking probe was underway. his is the story of two men. 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 . In interviews with the Sunday Herald and Fox TVs Americas Most Wanted, Richard C. Reissfelder, 66, said he saw the famed painting Chez Tortoni by Edouard Manet being displayed by his late brother, George. And why were the Boston FBI agents who arrested him so convinced that he knew something about the Gardner heist, they offered him a get out of jail free card to talk? Over the years, he has widened his focus beyond the Gardner case and become a consultant specializing in art theft and museum security. HORAN:And running through this story, Boser says, is a tale of two cities. Hes a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress now, but still has a mild obsession with the Gardner case. Two of his closest associates have long been on the radar of those looking into the heist. MURPHY: The FBI has said they believe the two thieves that actually went in are dead. Were there many female helicopter pilots at the time in Massachusetts? RODOLICO: From WBUR Boston and The Boston Globe, this is Last Seen. BLANDING: He was always just a consummate gentleman in all of his correspondence with me. And so, the plan was for him to come out, move in with me. Sikellis realized that the entire time hed been working with Charlie Pappas to nail Turner for those robberies, he could have been asking him if Turner had also been one of the men who robbed the Gardner. And he said, "You can't leave me. HORAN: Charlie Pappas had been shot twice in the mouth. TURNER: I've seen memos that they sent directly to, uh, the director of the FBI saying that they believe I was a participant. I was 23 years old. Get popped. The very man who died in prison rather than give up anything he might have known about how the Gardner heist went down or where the paintings might have been. The night of the robbery, thieves removed the Manet painting from its gilded frame. David Turner had been a standout athlete in high school, described as charismatic and loyal by friends. Related To Janice Reissfelder. They had listening devices that could pick up two-way radios. HORAN: A search of George Reissfelders apartment turned up a cache of stolen goods, including drugs and weapons. HORAN: Something like the presumably straightforward question of where David Turner was the night of the Gardner heist. He was serving a 47-year sentence for his role in a planned 1999 armored car depot heist in Easton. GEORGE REISSFELDER: One night I woke up about 12, 1 oclock in the morning, sweating, shaking. KURKJIAN: What was your commonality? And when these two men met, the lucky one was young and handsome and had also, it is alleged, gotten away with murder. He was very upset. If it was because of some new federal sentencing guideline, you know, decision it would be detailed in the record. Celtics assistant GM Mike Zarren travels to Italy to share player tracking techniques with soccer club Atalanta. Reissfelder said his family is anguished by the revelations and want the art to be returned. Jan 04, 2022, 08:02 ET. While they might be very different sports, NBA basketball and association football rely on statistics to make important decisions often enough to have some . The museum opened to the public in 1903, and Gardner continued to expand the collection and arrange it until she died in 1924. Reissfelder and DiMuzio were suspected of being part of the "Merlino gang," a crew of lower-level associates with alleged ties to the Boston Mafia. At the time, Reissfelder was 49 and DiMuzio was 42. Investigates Possible Suspects In America's Biggest Art Heist. It's Boston local news in one concise, fun and informative email. 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. 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. Over the course of a correspondence that spanned several years, Turner proposed that Blanding write a book about his life. He was sentenced to life in prison and incarcerated at the old Walpole state prison, where he maintained his innocence. for 35 years before retiring. We have-- we had very clear suspicions as to who that was, given he was a cooperating witness, but unfortunately we never had enough evidence to prosecute. All this negative publicity. Robert Beauchamp says the idea to steal paintings as crime insurance was his. And, uh, so then he grabbed me by the throat and started choking me. George Reissfelder was found dead in his apartment of "cocaine poisoning" after Merlino told firefighters that he hadn't heard from his friend in several days. We never hear her voice. We were unable to subscribe you to WBUR Today. It's just rumor and conjecture, you know. A confidential informant later told investigators that Reissfelder was among the members of Merlinos crew that pulled off the $300 million blockbuster art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum on March 18, 1990, according to FBI records. Thirty-three years after two thieves, dressed like police officers, talked their way into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tied up two guards, and fled with masterpieces estimated to be worth. But on that receipt is another drivers license number. 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. . RODOLICO: So, four years before the Boston FBI sting on TRC Auto Electric that would finally put David Turner in prison, Robert Sikellis, who had tried and failed twice to do so, had an epiphany about Turners alleged robberies: They looked an awful lot like the Gardner heist, but on a much smaller scale. 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.. like follow. Several years later, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Amore said, informants drew their attention to two associates of Mr. Merlino, George A. Reissfelder and Leonard V. DiMuzio. And I noticed that the release date had changed. I'm a prisoner at MCI Norfolk. 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. So, um, eventually, after I didn't go to enough drills I got thrown out of the military thrown out with a dishonorable discharge. Wolf was never shown an image of George Reissfelder or any other suspect while she was preparing her sketches with the former guard. RODOLICO: The people he knew were from prison. That's not how it works. Witnesses told investigators they saw Reissfelder at the crime scene. He couldn't watch me. Sikellis next prepared to prosecute Turner for a 1990 home invasion. father Anna Reifelder mother Anna Catharina Reifelder sister view all Johannes Reifelder's Timeline But as he began his new life, Reissfelder said he always had faith that the system that wrongly convicted him would release him. But his former sister-in-law, Donna Reissfelder, said in the docuseries that she may have unknowingly helped him hang one of the stolen paintings in his apartment. 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. At the time of his death, Bill Russell was married to Jeannine. Collection. Mr. DiMuzio, who was shot to . Fred Reissfelder. 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. Thank you! Seinfeld. I will go after your-- I'll go after your family." He had that painting.". In 2014, the FBI identified the thieves present at the museum as George Reissfelder and Lenny Dimuzio, who both died within a year of the robbery. Im truly struck by how earnest he and his entire family have been, Amore said. Thats the auto body shop about four miles from the Gardner Museum that doubled as an underworld nerve center. Convicted of killing a friend in Arlington 1971, Beauchamp started a relationship George Reissfelder while serving in prison. 1/12: You have been subscribed to WBUR Today. HORAN: Was David Turner in on the robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum? Both thieves were dead within a year of their breathtaking crime. What attracted you to him? He is running on the 2018 Republican ticket for the office of Secretary of State in Massachusetts. Reissfelder is the first person to claim hes seen the stolen Manet since it was filched from the Gardners ground-floor Blue Room. In 1990, two men stole 13 works of art valued at approximately $500 million dollars from a Boston Museum. So I mean, so very quickly, within the first two weeks, it was violent. In the culmination of two years of work by Reissfelder's court-appointed Boston attorneys, Reissfelder's murder conviction, for which he had served 15 years in prison, was dismissed. RODOLICO: In 1980, assistant district attorneys Roanne Sragow and John Kerry yes, that John Kerry took on Reissfelders claims of innocence. William Reissfelder currently lives in Westwood, MA; in the past William has also lived in Norwell MA and Coppell TX. 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. Then, just days before the trial was set to start in late 1995: SIKELLIS: Charlie Pappas was shot and killed on Thanksgiving eve. HORAN: And Im Kelly Horan. 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. 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. Id love some day to own my own house. SIKELLIS: And unfortunately, by the time we sensed any connection to the Gardner Museum, Pappas was dead. He hasn't shared any details about his wife and children until now. 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. BLANDING: Eventually, and I should say allegedly, David was involved with a number of more serious crimes. 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. Well, I was married at one time to George Reissfelder. Wife: Eugene Reinsfelder. And when Janice Santos first learned about the heist, she had an immediate intuition about who that was. HORAN: And after that? 5: Son: George Reinsfelder Junior. David A. Turner was considered a suspect in the Gardner heist early on in the investigation. 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. display: none; When I see this I have the same reaction every time. 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 . When he was arrested, he tried to pull a gun on the police and landed back in a Bay State prison. RODOLICO:In a letter dated Oct. 26, 2003, Turner proposes that Blanding write a book about his life. And someone lifted $50,000 from, uh, the Bull & Finch, and David was thought to be involved with that. He believes the artwork has been stashed somewhere nearby. He went through her stuff, looking for evidence that he couldnt trust her. George A Reissfelder, 83. Reissfelder described his brother as a follower who was hardened by his prison experience and fell in with a bad crowd upon his release. And there are others that dont. 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. I've seen that painting in my brother's apartment." And that's it. George Albert Reissfelder Jr 1940-1991 Mary "Maria" Petrillo 1938-2007 Spouse and Children George Albert Reissfelder Jr 1940-1991 Male Mary "Maria" Petrillo 1938-2007 Female Parents and Siblings George Albert Reissfelder Sr 1901-1976 Male Emma G Schnabel 1904-1967 Female Siblings (4) Phyllis Reissfelder 1925-1936 Female BEAUCHAMP: And they started a major cocaine operation for years. . And George Reissfelder is, I guess, a prime suspect in the robbery, the theft. So the question is, whether they went through with that idea and now share the distinction of taking part in the greatest art heist in history. This one in particular really caught my attention because it mentioned the Gardner Museum robbery. Resides in Mashpee, MA. The publicity was mostly because of the legal defense work of John F. Kerry, and Kerrys law partner. He's just got to adjust a little bit,' and it didn't happen. Within 11 years, the former Jamaica Plain resident was found dead of cocaine poisoning in his Quincy apartment, in March 1991, according to police. RODOLICO: Amore says Richard Reissfelder put him in touch with someone else whod also seen Manet's "Chez Tortoni" in George Reissfelders apartment. I got a call from a State Police lieutenant, and we all rushed to the scene. 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. HORAN: But Janice Santos didnt become the states first female helicopter pilot. ". Sikellis says he believes whoever pulled off the Gardner heist had been hired by higher-level criminals and the thieves knew nothing of who masterminded the theft or where the artwork wound up. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was constructed under the guidance of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924) to house her personal art collection. So that seems pretty impressive. In hopes of gaining consideration for his own release, Beauchamp has cooperated with the FBI and the museum in their search for a recovery. I would have been the first. Boser typed notes as he listened to Turner on speaker phone. HORAN: Sikelliss first run at David Turner in the so-called Cheers robbery ended in an acquittal. And when these two men met, the lucky one was young and handsome and had also, it is alleged, gotten away with murder. She was on track to become the first female helicopter pilot in Massachusetts. He had kind of a Beatle haircut very straight hair. Hear Michael Blanding read from one of them, The Sting, here: Former Assistant Massachusetts Attorney General. At 2:15 P.M., the prisoner, George A. Reissfelder, 42 years old, was unmanacled in the Suffolk County Superior Court when the District Attorney's office declined to oppose his lawyer's motion that . The shop was managed by crime figure Carmello Merlino. HORAN: Reissfelder was vicious to Santos. HORAN: George Reissfelder does resemble the police artists sketch of one of the suspects. 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?". 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. Yeah, no more ads! AMORE: He spent a long time 16 years in the country's toughest prison for something he hadn't done. 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. So that's when I suggested to him, "You know, if you could steal a few million dollars worth of art and just put it away, then if you get popped you can, you know, wheel and deal it at that point." One of them was born lucky. No one had let Reissfelder know. As the investigation progressed, the FBI turned their attention to the Merlino gang, a Boston Mafia crime family full of a number of the most likely suspects. 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. Stay up-to-date with important news developments, delivered right to your inbox. Access is free so discover George Reinsfelder Junior's story today. Amore gave Reissfelder a museum tour and showed him images of the 13 stolen treasures. Reissfelder spent nearly a third of his life in prisons before authorities finally cleared him of a murder charge and let him go free in 1982. I mean, if you knew who it was you could just look at it and tell them it was who it was. My book argued that David Turner and George Reissfelder were the individuals who robbed the museum. What did you see in him? Thats when it really dawned on me. Last Seenis a production from WBUR and The Boston Globe. At the . }Customer Service. The pair unearthed evidence that had been suppressed at trial. You know, you gravitate to the people that you know. In the interview with. Bill Reissfelder Sales Operations at Klaviyo . HORAN: Shelley Murphy, who wrote a Globe piece about this with Steve, says this makes sense. How do you defend yourself against that? So, that tells you they don't believe David Turner went inside. You have to be really planned and articulate. Aug 23, 1903 - Dec 1969 . So that's when we started talking about getting some crime insurance, figuring that that was going to happen sooner or later. RODOLICO: So, who is David Turner? 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. Maria was adopted by another family many years ago, and has changed her name from Reissfelder. I just want this crime against civilization to be solved, Reissfelder said. George Reissfelder In 2006, an inmate in prison for murder wrote Anthony Amore, the Gardner Director of Security, a letter. His brother believes that Merlino and his Dorchester-based crew had a role in the death. Prominent chin. In her book, Seinfeldia, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong gives the full story . This is David Turner, on a lousy phone line from prison, after his luck had run out. We did. The feeling was that he was a very dangerous individual. These are five hundred million dollars worth of art that's stolen. Remember the two suspects who fled TRC and crashed their car after FBI agents pursued them? to Henry & Helen (Tully) Reissfelder. Former Wife Of George Reissfelder. 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. 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. 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." So, if it had ever been there, where did it go? 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. Of all the men floated as possible suspects in the Gardner heist, no one is more of a dead ringer. Previously, he had worked as a specialist for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And he had never seen it, and had never seen "The Concert." Who was he going to be friends with when he got out of jail? 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. I married a beautiful young girl. So, he backed off. Robert Beauchamp says the TRC gang was flying too close to the sun. ROBERT BEAUCHAMP: OK, I'm Robert Beauchamp. The publicity was mostly because of the legal defense work of John F. Kerry, and Kerrys law partner. Charlie Pappas was a second-generation coke dealer for Carmello Merlino. You could trade the paintings to, you know basically make a Hollywood film, right? Clara J Reissfelder. And after you pass by those two it seems like an exercise in futility, but I went through the other 11 pieces. Over the years, the Herald has reported on several people who claimed to have access to a Rembrandt stolen the same night, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee. Those leads have never panned out. After being paroled, Reissfelder immediately proved to everyone that Kerry exercised poor judgment in helping secure his freedom, wrote former Republican operative Stephen Marks in his 2008 book, Confessions of a Political Hitman: My Secret Life of Scandal, Corruption, Hypocrisy and Dirty Attacks.. Undisclosed sources in the investigation believed that the thieves the FBI identified were George Reissfelder and Leonard DiMuzio, both involved in the Merlino gang and both deceased shortly after the robbery in 1991. HORAN: David Turner told Boser that the FBI said, essentially, 'we know you did it.'. BOSTON, MA - MAY 11: George Reissfelder sits in the office of his attorney Roanne Sragow at One Post Office Sq. For everything that points toward these particular suspects there's something that points away. The two men had their paths meet in the late '80s when they both were drawn into Merlino's cocaine business. Last month, state prisoner Robert C. Beauchamp, 59, publicly made claims through his attorney that George Reissfelder might have stashed the stolen Gardner art in a safe house in Maine. Thats what Boston Globe reporter Shelley Murphy wondered in 2016, when she made a sharp discovery. And it's not. He was born Sept 3, 1923 in Boston, Mass. And you know, it's frustrating. What was he cooperating on? 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. Merlino was in fact questioned by the FBI about the whereabouts of the Gardner art on the day of his arrest. The first ad criticizes Sen. John Kerry's role as a private lawyer in representing George Reissfelder, who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of a murder, according to The . They were never able to pin Turner to the crime, however. Im convinced they had my brother killed with an overdose of cocaine, said Reissfelder, who was notified of his brothers passing by Merlino. Their license was verified as active when we last . 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