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A true-crime podcast about the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Mashed potatoes, corn, and ground beef. These aren't the ingredients for shepherd's pie, but for Chinese pie, a traditional and very famous French Canadian dish. In this episode of Last Seen, WBUR's Amanda Beland attempts to solve a culinary mystery and reveal where pâté chinois comes from and how it got that name. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
For years, WBUR senior arts and culture reporter Andrea Shea drove by an old, mysterious factory in Cambridge, Mass. To her surprise, it turned to be the last vestige of a 20th century candy hub called Confectioner's Row. This week on Last Seen, we unwrap the lost history of this manufacturing center, which is the birthplace of America's candy industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WBUR senior arts reporter Amelia Mason is on the hunt to solve a mystery that has been haunting her for years: why are black raspberries so hard to find? The answer takes us through grocery stores, farms, foraging expeditions, and Amelia's own childhood backyard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The third season of Last Seen, coming November 2022, is a collection of personal and political mysteries from public radio storytellers that you won't want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Season 2 of Last Seen just wrapped, which means it's time for a listener survey! We're so curious to find out what you, our listeners, thought about it!
It would mean so much to us if you'd take just a few minutes to give us your honest feedback on this new version of Last Seen by filling out our survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On his way to Hollywood, a young Black man named Winston Willis stopped in Cleveland in 1959 to shoot a little pool and walked away $35,000 richer. He used his winnings to open over two dozen businesses. Nowadays, there's no trace of his "Miracle on 105th Street." And most people in Cleveland have never heard of Winston Willis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
People will tell you Richard Bento is a good actor — on and off the stage. But lately, he's been at the center of some real life dramas swirling behind the scenes, involving accusations of fraud, embezzlement, and other kinds of scams. After disappearing from one local theater, he's been known to surface and pull his stunts all over again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Many prized possessions and artifacts imbued with sentimental value go missing, unintentionally. But, what about when we choose to renounce the items that mean the most to us? As arts and culture journalist Allyson McCabe discovers, getting rid of your baggage isn't quite as simple as getting rid of the bags. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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 serious mistake. Instead of artist prints, USPS delivered a little blue urn -- containing the ashes of a total stranger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
During the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, tens of thousands of people were forcibly disappeared. For decades, few people knew this — and no one talked about it. Then, one man started to dig into his past to find his missing grandfather. What he discovered allowed him to break his own silence, and the silence of an entire country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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. What unfolds is a bite-size crime story starring an obscure species of tiny fish, and some hedonistic humans who stepped a little too far over the line, and suffered some big consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Using traditional griot storytelling, writer Brenton Zola transports listeners to a turning point in Congo's path to independence, when a pair of bold leaders fanned the flames of hope and liberation in the Belgian colony of Congo. He explores what happened to the country's hope for a brighter future, and why it was dashed by outside forces, with lasting consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Everyone knows there are exactly eight planets in our solar system. But what if there were a ninth? Two scientists, separated by a century, are convinced it exists. They've spent their lives searching, but no one has seen it. Yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jack Murphy, or "Murph the Surf," is known for pulling off the biggest jewel heist in New York City history in 1964. But this idol's legacy also contains a secretive, much darker chapter.
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Freeports are the most expensive and secretive warehouses in the world, hiding the world’s most valuable art pieces from the public eye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The new season, coming out Feb. 1, has 10 new true-crime mysteries that you don’t want to miss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WBUR’s popular true-crime podcast returns in 2022 with a brand new anthology of mysterious tales about people, places, ashes, planets, endangered species, feelings and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Listen to the trailer for Anthing For Selena, a new podcast from WBUR coming in January 2021. Subscribe now so you don't miss it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
"Madness" is Endless Thread's new investigative series. Told in 5 parts, the series unravels the shocking history of CIA-funded mind-control experiments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Last Seen's sister podcast, Kind World, recently produced a special series featuring stories of kindness and compassion at the U.S.-Mexico border. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Once considered “the eighth wonder of the world,” the Amber Room was a treasure of kings and an architectural marvel before being stolen by Nazis and lost to history. So…what happened? It all depends on who you ask. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
"Infectious: The Strange Past and Surprising Present of Vaccines — and Anti-Vaxxers" explores the weird, winding story of scientific innovation, medical disasters and online virality that radicalized new parents and created a movement that threatens to send us back to the disease-ridden dark ages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Last Seen wants to tell you about another great podcast: Kind World Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Another great mystery from our sister podcast, Endless Thread. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A behind-the-scenes conversation about how we investigated the most sensational unsolved art heist in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Gardner's stolen artwork could be anywhere. Why not under a lot in Orlando? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After a parallel heist gone wrong, did Brian McDevitt succeed at the Gardner Museum? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Was the world's greatest art thief the inspiration, or actually the mastermind, of the Gardner heist? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This is a story about how to plot an art recovery, and then blow it entirely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We trace the art's possible path from Boston to Connecticut to Philadelphia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Were George Reissfelder and David Turner involved in the Gardner heist? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Was the heist planned in the belly of Boston's criminal underworld operating out of a Dorchester auto body shop? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is something like the holy grail of art crime. This podcast will look at why not a single artwork has been recovered. But first, we'll revisit what happened that night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A first listen to "Last Seen," a true-crime podcast about the most valuable — and confounding — art heist in history: the theft of 13 irreplaceable artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices