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81 Minutes in Boston: The Gardner Museum Theft and the Empty Frames Still on the Wall

October 31, 2026 by Sitcom Buzz Staff
FBI poster seeking information on Vermeer's The Concert, 2013

In March 1990, two men dressed as police talked their way into a Boston museum and left with 13 works of art. Decades later, not one has been recovered.

Categories Classic TV, True Crime Tags Art Theft, Boston, FBI, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, Rembrandt, Unsolved mysteries, Vermeer Leave a comment

The Man Who Jumped Into the Night: The D.B. Cooper Mystery

October 27, 2026 by Sitcom Buzz Staff
Composite Sketch created by the FBI of the unknown hijacker (alias Dan Cooper or D.B. Cooper) of Northwest Orient Flight 305

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a quiet man in a suit hijacked a jet, collected $200,000 and four parachutes, and jumped into the dark. He was never found.

Categories Classic TV, True Crime Tags 1971, D. B. Cooper, FBI, Hijacking, Northwest Orient Flight 305, Pacific Northwest, True crime, Unsolved mysteries Leave a comment

Three Men, One Raft, No Trace: The 1962 Escape From Alcatraz

October 26, 2026 by Sitcom Buzz Staff
John Anglin (left) and Clarence Anglin (right) - FBI photos, 1960s

In June 1962, three inmates left dummy heads in their beds and slipped off Alcatraz on a homemade raft. More than sixty years later, nobody knows what happened next.

Categories Classic TV, True Crime Tags 1962, Alcatraz, Anglin brothers, Frank Morris, June 1962 Alcatraz escape, San Francisco, True crime, Unsolved mysteries Leave a comment

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