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How They Walked Eight Priceless Paintings Out of a Locked Penthouse

How They Walked Eight Priceless Paintings Out of a Locked PenthouseCold, precise, and almost ceremonial: eight paintings vanished from a locked penthouse without alarms, forced entry, or a broken trace, and one canvas turned up wedged in a utility lane worth between $400,000 and $600,000. How did a missing keycard, a drain ticket, and seven unexplained hours of overtime line up months of preparation into a theft that left almost nothing behind?In this episode, we follow the timeline from January 10-14, 2011, tracing the discovery of the Vandermeer painting in a nine-degree alley and Detective…

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